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{{Short description|Dutch football manager (born 1960)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name                = Mark Wotte
| image               = Mark-wotte.jpg
| upright             = 1.1
| caption             = Wotte in 2007
| full_name           = Mark Christian Wotte<ref name="francophone"/>
| height              = 
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1960|12|16}}
| birth_place         = [[Enschede]], Netherlands
| position            = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]]
| currentclub         = 
| youthyears1 =  | youthclubs1 = [[FC Twente|Sportclub Enschede]]
| youthyears2 =  | youthclubs2 = [[FC Twente]]
| years1 = 1980–1981  | caps1 = 33   | goals1 = 4  | clubs1 = [[FC Vlaardingen]]
| years2 = 1981–1982  | caps2 = 4    | goals2 = 0  | clubs2 = [[Feyenoord]]
| years3 = 1982–1983  | caps3 = 32   | goals3 = 1  | clubs3 = [[FC Den Haag]]
| years4 = 1983–1986  | caps4 = 69   | goals4 = 3  | clubs4 = [[Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging|SVV]]
| totalcaps  = 138  | totalgoals  = 8 
| manageryears1   = 1983–1988  | managerclubs1   = [[VV Rijswijk]]
| manageryears2   = 1992       | managerclubs2   = [[ADO Den Haag]]
| manageryears3   = 1994–1996  | managerclubs3   = [[FC Lisse]]
| manageryears4   = 1996–1998  | managerclubs4   = ADO Den Haag
| manageryears5   = 1998–2000  | managerclubs5   = [[FC Utrecht|Utrecht]]
| manageryears6   = 2000–2000  | managerclubs6   = [[FC Den Bosch|Den Bosch]]
| manageryears7   = 2000–2002  | managerclubs7   = [[Netherlands national under-21 football team|Netherlands U19+U-21]]
| manageryears8   = 2002–2004  | managerclubs8   = [[Willem II Tilburg]]
| manageryears9   = 2006       | managerclubs9   = [[Ismaily SC|Ismaily]]
| manageryears10  = 2006–2007  | managerclubs10  = [[RKC Waalwijk]]
| manageryears11  = 2007–2008  | managerclubs11  = [[Al-Ahli Doha (Doha)|Al Ahli]]
| manageryears12  = 2009       | managerclubs12  = [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]]
| manageryears13  = 2010       | managerclubs13  = [[FC Universitatea Craiova|Universitatea Craiova]]
| manageryears14  = 2010–2011  | managerclubs14  = [[Ismaily SC|Ismaily]]
| manageryears15  = 2011–2014  | managerclubs15  = [[Scottish Football Association|Scottish FA]] (performance director)
| manageryears16  = 2015–2020  | managerclubs16  = [[Royal Moroccan Football Federation|Moroccan FA]] (under-23 coach)
| manageryears17  = 2020       | managerclubs17  = [[Al Wahda FC|Al Wahda]]
| manageryears18  = 2022–2023  | managerclubs18  = [[Syria national under-23 football team|Syria U23]]
}}
'''Mark Christian Wotte''' (born 16 December 1960) is a Dutch [[association football|football]] manager and former player. Wotte has managed teams in the Netherlands, Egypt, Qatar, England and Romania, and has also worked for the [[Scottish Football Association]].

==Playing career==
Wotte played for Sportclub Enschede and FC Twente Academy, The Netherlands U.17's, and 1st Team Football for [[Feyenoord Rotterdam|Feyenoord]], [[FC Vlaardingen]], [[FC Den Haag]] and [[Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging|SVV]] in his native Netherlands.<ref name = "sfc profile"/> Injuries ended his career in 1986.<ref name = "sfc profile">{{cite news|title=Profile – Mark Wotte|url=http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/team/?page_id=6587&player_id=157|publisher=SaintsFC.co.uk|date=21 December 2005|access-date=29 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303213753/http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/team/?page_id=6587&player_id=157|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Coaching and managerial career==
In 1996, Wotte was named manager of [[ADO Den Haag]], where he stayed for two seasons, before signing for [[FC Utrecht|Utrecht]] (1997–2000). He later worked for [[FC Den Bosch|Den Bosch]], [[Willem II Tilburg|Willem II]], the [[Royal Dutch Football Association]], [[Feyenoord Rotterdam|Feyenoord]] (technical director), and [[Ismaily SC|Ismaily]] in Egypt. He left [[Ismaily SC|Ismaily]] on 16 December 2006 due to family reasons, to return to the Netherlands to coach [[RKC Waalwijk]] before moving to [[Qatar]] to manage [[Al-Ahli (Doha)|Al Ahli]].

===Southampton===
Having initially been linked with [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]] in 2005,<ref>{{cite news |title=Wotte 'set for switch to Saints' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/4547472.stm|publisher=[[BBC Sport]]|date=21 December 2005}}</ref> Wotte joined the club as part of the new management team in 2008, with particular responsibility for the development of Southampton's youth squad. He was appointed manager on 23 January 2009, replacing [[Jan Poortvliet]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Poortvliet resigns as Saints boss|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/7848414.stm|publisher=[[BBC Sport]]|access-date=24 January 2009|date=23 January 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Chairman's statement |url=http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/articles/article.php?page_id=11263 |publisher=Saintsfc.co.uk |access-date=24 January 2009 |date=23 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217225957/http://saintsfc.co.uk/articles/article.php?page_id=11263 |archive-date=17 February 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Southampton drew 2–2 against [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]] in his first game in charge.<ref>{{cite news |title=Norwich 2–2 Southampton |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_div_1/7845594.stm |publisher=[[BBC Sport]] |date=27 January 2009}}</ref>

Defeats against [[Sheffield United F.C.|Sheffield United]] and [[Bristol City F.C.|Bristol City]] left the Saints in relegation trouble. Wins against [[Preston North End F.C.|Preston North End]], [[Cardiff City F.C.|Cardiff City]] and [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]] gave Southampton hope, but the club went into administration, due to financial problems. Unable to steer them to safety, Southampton were relegated to [[EFL League One|League One]], where they would start with the 10 point deduction at the start of the following season. Wotte left the club after it was taken over by [[Markus Liebherr]] in the summer of 2009.<ref name = "sfa"/>

===Universitatea Craiova===
Wotte signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with Romania's [[Liga I]] team [[FC Universitatea Craiova|Universitatea Craiova]] on 7 January 2010. He led the team on a good run, which contained victories against Rapid București, Vaslui, Poli Iași, Brașov and Astra Ploiești. However, after losing two home games, he was suspended on 10 May 2010 for 30 days, despite saving the team from relegation, being four points clear above the relegation zone. Following the suspension, Wotte got in a conflict with the Craiova's owner and left the club. In 2015 the CAS of FIFA decided the dismissal was injustice.

===Ismaily===
Wotte returned to Egyptian club Ismaily in June 2010. He coached his first competitive game on 18 July, in a game against Algerian side [[JS Kabylie]] in the [[2010 CAF Champions League]]. After the public uproar in Egypt early 2011 causing temporarily postponing
of The Egyptian League Wotte stayed until April managing the team before returning to the Netherlands.

===Scottish FA===
Wotte was named as the first Performance Director and Technical Director of National Teams of the [[Scottish Football Association]] (SFA) on 23 June 2011.<ref name = "sfa">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/13886219.stm|title=Mark Wotte is Scotland's first performance director|publisher=[[BBC Sport]]|date=23 June 2011|access-date=23 June 2011}}</ref> Wotte left the SFA in October 2014, having implemented most of the recommendations of a review conducted by [[Henry McLeish]].<ref>[http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish_fa_news.cfm? Mark Wotte moves on from Scottish FA], Scottish Football Association {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018094030/http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish_fa_news.cfm |date=18 October 2014 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29705901 Scotland: Mark Wotte quits as SFA performance director], BBC Sport</ref>

===Morocco FA===
On 1 December 2015, Wotte joined the [[Royal Moroccan Football Federation]]. He worked as the football federation's National Youth Teams Coach. He signed a four-year contract until 2020. He was responsible for players born 1997-1998 and 1999 with teams U20 and the Olympic Team U23.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.supersport.com/football/North-Africa/news/151126/Morocco_snap_up_Dutchman_Wotte|title=Morocco snap up Dutchman Wotte|website=Supersport.com|access-date=1 August 2017}}</ref>

In July 2017, he won for the first time since 2001 the [[Football at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie|football tournament at the 2017 Francophone Games]] in [[Abidjan]] by beating the home country CIV in the Final with the Morocco U20 team.<ref name="francophone">{{cite web|title=Cote d'Ivoire – Maroc|url=http://www.microplustiming.com/RPDS-JDF17/_Doc/FBM400101_73%201.0.pdf?rnd=597fbc7fbd475|publisher=Microplustiming.com|access-date=31 July 2017|date=30 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801044603/http://www.microplustiming.com/RPDS-JDF17/_Doc/FBM400101_73%201.0.pdf?rnd=597fbc7fbd475|archive-date=1 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2018 he won also gold medals with Morocco U15/16 in Algeria and Tunesia.

===Al Wahda===
In July 2020, Wotte signed a contract with [[Abu Dhabi]] side, [[Al Wahda FC|Al Wahda]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Ex-SFA performance director Mark Wotte lands manager's job in UAE with Al Wahda|url=https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/18594476.ex-sfa-performance-director-mark-wotte-lands-managers-job-uae-al-wahda/|publisher=GlasgowTimes|access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref> however due to the UAEFA postponing the Pro-League competition and after one training match, he was dismissed in September of the same year.<ref>{{cite web|title=Trainer Mark Wotte na één oefenduel al afgeserveerd|url=https://www.telegraaf.nl/sport/971409771/trainer-mark-wotte-na-een-oefenduel-al-afgeserveerd|work=De Telegraaf|access-date=10 September 2020}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{soccerbase (manager)|id=2145|name=Mark Wotte}}

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