Clayton Zane

Clayton Zane (born 12 July 1977) is an Australian association football coach and former player, who played as a 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 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, serving as a head coach in 2014.

Club career

Template:BLP unreferenced section Zane was first brought to Europe as a relative unknown by Norwegian team Molde. After scoring no goals in 14 matches he was sold to 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 national team at the 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 in June 2000. Zane was a member of the Australian squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

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. 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.

On 7 September 2016, Zane became the caretaker coach of the Newcastle Jets after the termination of Scott Miller. Zane is regarded as well liked by the playing group and has a "Calming presence".

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Australia	2000	9	5
	2001	5	1
Total		14	6

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

List of international goals scored by Clayton Zane

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	19 June 2000	Stade Pater, Papeete, Tahiti	{{ Template:Yesno	alias = Cook Islands	flag alias = Flag of the Cook Islands.svg	flag alias-1973 = Flag of the Cook Islands 1973.svg	link alias-football = Cook Islands men's national football team	size =	name =	variant =	altlink = national football team }} || align="center"|15–0 || align=center rowspan="3"|17–0 || rowspan="3"|2000 OFC Nations Cup
2				16–0
3				17–0
4	23 June 2000	Stade Pater, Papeete, Tahiti	{{ Template:Yesno	alias = Solomon Islands	flag alias = Flag of the Solomon Islands.svg	flag alias-1893 = Flag of the United Kingdom (1-2).svg	flag alias-1906 = Flag of the Solomon Islands (1906–1947).svg	flag alias-1947 = Flag of the Solomon Islands (1947–1956).svg	flag alias-1956 = Flag of the Solomon Islands (1956–1966).svg	flag alias-1966 = Flag of the Solomon Islands (1966–1977).svg	flag alias-civil = Civil Ensign of the Solomon Islands.svg	flag alias-government = Government Ensign of the Solomon Islands.svg	flag alias-naval = Naval Ensign of the Solomon Islands.svg	flag alias-navy = Naval Ensign of the Solomon Islands.svg	size =	name =	altlink = national football team	variant = }} || align="center"|2–0 || align=center rowspan="2"|6–0 || rowspan="2"|2000 OFC Nations Cup
5				3–0
6	1 June 2001	Daegu Stadium, Daegu, South Korea	{{ Template:Yesno	alias = France	flag alias = Flag of France.svg	flag alias-1790 = Flag of France (1790–1794).svg	flag alias-1794 = Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg	flag alias-1814 = Flag of the Kingdom of France (1814-1830).svg	flag alias-1830 = Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg	flag alias-1848 = Drapeau france 1848.svg	flag alias-1848a = Drapeau france 1848.svg	flag alias-1848b = Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg	flag alias-1974 = Flag of France (lighter variant).svg	flag alias-naval = Civil and Naval Ensign of France.svg	flag alias-naval-1790 = Flag of French-Navy-Revolution.svg	flag alias-air force = Flag of France.svg	link alias-air force = French Air and Space Force	flag alias-coast guard = French Maritime Gendarmerie racing stripe.svg	border-coast guard =	link alias-coast guard = French Maritime Gendarmerie	flag alias-army = Flag of France.svg	link alias-army = French Army	link alias-naval = French Navy	flag alias-navy = Civil and Naval Ensign of France.svg	link alias-navy = French Navy	size =	name =	altlink = national football team	variant = }} || align="center"|1–0 || align="center"|1–0 || 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup

Managerial statistics

As of 1 October 2017

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
Newcastle Jets FC W-League	Template:Flagicon	August 2011	June 2012
Newcastle Jets FC Youth	Template:Flagicon	June 2012	January 2014
Newcastle Jets	Template:Flagicon	20 January 2014	5 May 2014
Newcastle Jets FC Youth	Template:Flagicon	11 September 2015	1 October 2017
Total

Honours

Australia

• FIFA Confederations Cup: 3rd place, 2001
• OFC Nations Cup: 2000

Australia U-20

• OFC U-19 Men's Championship: 1997

Individual

• Norwegian Premier League top scorer: 2001
• Kniksen award: Striker of the Year 2001

External links

• Template:PAGENAMEBASE at National-Football-Teams.com
• Oz Football profile