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{{Short description|Australian soccer player and coach}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name           = Clayton Zane
| image          = Clayton Zane.jpg
| upright        = 1.1
| caption        = Zane in 2012
| fullname       = Clayton Zane
| birth_date     = {{birth date and age|1977|7|12|df=y}}
| birth_place    = [[Newcastle, New South Wales|Newcastle]], Australia
| height         = 1.93 m
| position       = [[Striker (association football)|Striker]]
| youthyears1    = 1985–1993 |youthclubs1 = [[Cessnock City Hornets FC|Cessnock City Hornets]]
| youthyears2    = 1993–1995 |youthclubs2 = [[Adamstown Rosebud]]
| years1         = 1995–1998 |clubs1 = [[Newcastle Breakers]]                 |caps1 = 70 |goals1 = 17
| years2         = 1995–2000 |clubs2 = [[Northern Spirit FC|Northern Spirit]] |caps2 = 57 |goals2 = 6
| years3         = 2000      |clubs3 = [[Molde F.K.|Molde]]                   |caps3 = 14 |goals3 = 0
| years4         = 2001–2002 |clubs4 = [[Lillestrøm SK|Lillestrøm]]           |caps4 = 29 |goals4 = 18
| years5         = 2002–2005 |clubs5 = [[R.S.C. Anderlecht|Anderlecht]]       |caps5 = 10 |goals5 = 2
| totalcaps      = 163
| totalgoals     = 43
| nationalyears1 = 1996–1997 |nationalteam1 = [[Australia national under-20 football team|Australia U20]] |nationalcaps1 = 3  |nationalgoals1 = 3
| nationalyears2 = 1998–2000 |nationalteam2 = [[Australia men's national under-23 soccer team|Australia U23]] |nationalcaps2 = 15 |nationalgoals2 = 9
| nationalyears3 = 2000–2001 |nationalteam3 = [[Australia men's national soccer team|Australia]]               |nationalcaps3 = 14 |nationalgoals3 = 6
| manageryears1 = 2011–2012
| managerclubs1 = [[Newcastle Jets FC W-League|Newcastle Jets]] ([[W-League (Australia)|W-League]])
| manageryears2 = 2012–2014
| managerclubs2 = [[Newcastle Jets FC Youth|Newcastle Jets Youth]]
| manageryears3 = 2014
| managerclubs3 = [[Newcastle Jets FC|Newcastle Jets]]
| manageryears4 = 2014–15
| managerclubs4 = Newcastle Jets (assistant)
| manageryears5 = 2016–19
| managerclubs5 = Newcastle Jets (assistant)
| managerclubs6 = [[New Lambton FC]] (Technical Director)
| manageryears6 = 2020-
|medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's [[association football]]}}
{{Medal|Country|{{fb|AUS}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FIFA Confederations Cup]]}}
{{Medal|3rd|[[2001 FIFA Confederations Cup|2001 Japan–South Korea]]|}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[OFC Nations Cup]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[2000 OFC Nations Cup|2000 Tahiti]]|}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[OFC U-20 Championship]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[1997 OFC U-20 Championship|1997 Tahiti]]|}}
}}

'''Clayton Zane''' (born 12 July 1977) is an Australian [[association football]] coach and former player, who played as a [[striker (association football)|striker]].

In the 2001 season, he was the top scorer and awarded the [[Kniksen award]] as Striker of the Year in Norway. He earned 14 caps for the [[Australia men's national soccer team|Australia national team]], scoring six goals. His last club as a player was [[R.S.C. Anderlecht]], where a two-year-long injury prematurely ended his career in late 2005.

Following his retirement from playing Zane worked as a coach at [[Newcastle Jets FC|Newcastle Jets]], serving as a head coach in 2014.

==Club career==
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Zane was first brought to Europe as a relative unknown by Norwegian team [[Molde F.K.|Molde]]. After scoring no goals in 14 matches he was sold to [[Lillestrøm S.K.|Lillestrøm]]. In his first season in [[Lillestrøm]] he ended top scorer of the [[Norwegian Premier League]] with 17 goals and he was voted Norwegian Player of the Year some weeks later. He was then sold to Belgian club [[R.S.C. Anderlecht]] in 2002 where he scored twice in ten games.

==International career==
Zane represented the [[Australia men's national soccer team|Australia national team]] at the [[Confederations Cup 2001|2001 Confederations Cup]] and is best remembered for scoring the only goal when Australia defeated subsequent champion [[France]] in the group stage.  He scored a hat-trick for Australia against [[Cook Islands national football team|Cook Islands]] in June 2000. Zane was a member of the Australian squad at the [[2000 Summer Olympics]] in [[Sydney]].<ref name="ffa1">{{cite web|url=http://www.ozfootball.net/museum/socceroocaps.pdf|title=The Australian National Men's Football Team: Caps And Captains|publisher=Football Federation Australia|access-date=20 January 2014}}</ref><ref name="fifa-profile">{{cite web | url=https://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=178319/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201161020/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=178319/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=1 February 2014 | title=FIFA Player Statistics: Clayton ZANE | publisher=FIFA | access-date=20 January 2014}}</ref>

==Coaching career==
On 9 August 2011, it was announced that Zane had signed a contract to be the coach of the Newcastle Jets W-League team.

On 8 June 2012, he was announced as the youth team coach of the Newcastle United Jets Youth Squad.

In January 2014 [[Newcastle Jets]] head coach [[Gary van Egmond]] was sacked due to poor results and Zane was appointed interim head coach until the end of the season.<ref name="herald-coach">{{cite news | url=https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/2033277/video-gary-van-egmond-sacked-by-jets-poll/?cs=306 | title=UPDATED: Gary van Egmond sacked as Jets coach | work=Newcastle Herald | date=20 January 2014 | access-date=20 January 2014 | author=Carr, Matt | archive-date=1 April 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200401023124/http://www.theherald.com.au/story/2033277/updated-gary-van-egmond-sacked-as-jets-coach/?cs=306 | url-status=live }}</ref> The club chose to appoint [[Phil Stubbins]] as head coach of the club for the following season and returned Zane to the position of 1st team assistant coach.

Zane, along with goalkeeping coach Neil Young and strength & conditioning coach Andrew Packer were sacked as part of a club cleanout of players and staff.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fourfourtwo.com/au/news/jets-turmoil-tinkler-wields-axe |title=Jets in turmoil as Tinkler wields the axe |publisher=FourFourTwo |date=2015-01-28 |access-date=2016-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310163702/http://www.fourfourtwo.com/au/news/jets-turmoil-tinkler-wields-axe |archive-date=10 March 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On 7 September 2016, Zane became the caretaker coach of the [[Newcastle Jets]] after the termination of [[Scott Miller (soccer coach)|Scott Miller]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-07/aleague-newcastle-jets-sack-coach-scott-miller/7823924 |title=Newcastle Jets sack head coach Scott Miller one month before 2016/17 A-League season |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=2016-09-07 |access-date=2016-10-23}}</ref> Zane is regarded as well liked by the playing group and has a "Calming presence".<ref>{{cite web |author=JAMES GARDINER |url=https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/4154113/zane-steps-in-as-jets-get-back-to-business/ |title=Zane steps in as Jets get back to business |website=Theherald.com.au |date=2016-09-09 |access-date=2016-10-23 }}</ref>

==Career statistics==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Appearances and goals by national team and year<ref>{{NFT player|424}}</ref>
|-
!National team!!Year!!Apps!!Goals
|-
|rowspan="2"|[[Australia men's national soccer team|Australia]]
|2000||9||5
|-
|2001||5||1
|-
!colspan="2"|Total!!14!!6
|}

:''Scores and results list Australia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Zane goal.''

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of international goals scored by Clayton Zane
|-
!scope="col"|No.
!scope="col"|Date
!scope="col"|Venue
!scope="col"|Opponent
!scope="col"|Score
!scope="col"|Result
!scope="col"|Competition
|-
| align="center"|1 || rowspan="3"|19 June 2000 || rowspan="3"|[[Stade Pater Te Hono Nui|Stade Pater]], [[Papeete]], Tahiti || rowspan="3"|{{fb|COK}} || align="center"|15–0 || align=center rowspan="3"|17–0 || rowspan="3"|[[2000 OFC Nations Cup]]
|-
| align="center"|2 || align="center"|16–0
|-
| align="center"|3 || align="center"|17–0
|-
| align="center"|4 || rowspan="2"|23 June 2000 || rowspan="2"|Stade Pater, Papeete, Tahiti || rowspan="2"|{{fb|SOL}} || align="center"|2–0 || align=center rowspan="2"|6–0 || rowspan="2"|2000 OFC Nations Cup
|-
| align="center"|5 || align="center"|3–0
|-
| align="center"|6 || 1 June 2001 || [[Daegu Stadium]], [[Daegu]], South Korea || {{fb|FRA}} || align="center"|1–0 || align="center"|1–0 || [[2001 FIFA Confederations Cup]]
|}

==Managerial statistics==
{{updated|1 October 2017}}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Team
!rowspan="2"|Nat
!rowspan="2"|From
!rowspan="2"|To
!colspan="5"|Record
|-
!G!!W!!D!!L!!Win %
|-
|align=left|[[Newcastle Jets FC W-League]]
|{{flagicon|Australia}}
|align=left|August 2011
|align=left|June 2012
{{WDL|10|4|0|6}}
|-
|align=left|[[Newcastle Jets FC Youth]]
|{{flagicon|Australia}}
|align=left|June 2012
|align=left|January 2014
{{WDL|48|20|7|21}}
|-
|align=left|[[Newcastle Jets FC|Newcastle Jets]]
|{{flagicon|Australia}}
|align=left|20 January 2014
|align=left|5 May 2014
{{WDL|12|5|2|5}}
|-
|align=left|[[Newcastle Jets FC Youth]]
|{{flagicon|Australia}}
|align=left|11 September 2015
|align=left|1 October 2017
{{WDL|0|0|0|0}}
|-
!colspan="4"|Total
{{WDLtot|70|29|9|32}}
|}

==Honours==
'''Australia'''
*[[FIFA Confederations Cup]]: 3rd place, [[2001 FIFA Confederations Cup|2001]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fifa.com/confederationscup/archive/koreajapan2001/teams/team=43976/index.html  |title=Archived copy |access-date=October 14, 2024 |archive-date=January 22, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122105959/http://www.fifa.com/confederationscup/archive/koreajapan2001/teams/team=43976/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[OFC Nations Cup]]: [[2000 OFC Nations Cup|2000]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tables/00oc.html|title=Oceania Nations Cup 2000|access-date=October 14, 2024}}</ref>

'''Australia U-20'''
*[[OFC U-19 Men's Championship]]: [[1997 OFC U-20 Championship|1997]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/U20/1997.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610233225/http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/U20/1997.html|archive-date=June 10, 2023|url-status=dead|title=Young Socceroo Matches for 1997|access-date=March 13, 2025}}</ref>

'''Individual'''
*[[Norwegian top scorers|Norwegian Premier League top scorer]]: 2001
*[[Kniksen award]]: Striker of the Year 2001

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{NFT player|424}}
* [http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Players/Z/Z.html Oz Football profile]

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{{Norwegian Premier League top scorers}}
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