.jpg) Mosimane in 2021 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Pitso John Hamilton Mosimane[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1964-07-26)26 July 1964 (age 60) | ||
| Place of birth | Kagiso,Gauteng, South Africa | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Rockville Hungry Lions | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1982–1983 | Jomo Cosmos | 27 | (7) |
| 1984 | Mamelodi Sundowns | 31 | (11) |
| 1985–1986 | Jomo Cosmos | 29 | (20) |
| 1987 | Mamelodi Sundowns | 9 | (0) |
| 1988 | Jomo Cosmos | 14 | (11) |
| 1989 | Orlando Pirates | 0 | (0) |
| 1989–1995 | Ionikos | 34 | (5) |
| 1995 | KFC Rita Berlaar | 37 | (15) |
| 1996 | Al Sadd | 12 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 1993–1994 | South Africa | 4 | (1) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2001–2006 | Supersport United | ||
| 2010–2012 | South Africa | ||
| 2012–2020 | Mamelodi Sundowns | ||
| 2020–2022 | Al Ahly | ||
| 2022–2023 | Al Ahli Jeddah | ||
| 2023 | Al Wahda | ||
| 2024 | Abha | ||
| 2024–2025 | Esteghlal | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Pitso John Hamilton Mosimane (born 26 July 1964) is aSouth African former professionalfootball player and currentcoach.
Mosimane started his senior career atJomo Cosmos, then he played forMamelodi Sundowns andOrlando Pirates, before joining Greek clubIonikos to play under coachNikos Alefantos. He later joined Belgian team KFC Rita Berlaar and Qatari clubAl Sadd.
Mosimane was an assistant coach to the under-11 players during his tenure with the Belgian club KFC Rita Berlaar, then he returned to South Africa to coach Mamelodi Sundowns reserves.[2]
Mosimane joinedSupersport United as an assistant coach toBruce Grobbelaar, then he became the head coach from 2001 until 2007, where he finished second in 2001–02 and 2002–03 in thePremier Soccer League.
Mosimane served as the caretaker coach of theSouth African national team, nicknamed asBafana Bafana, for seven games in 2007, prior to the appointment ofCarlos Alberto Parreira as head coach of the national team, whom Mosimane served as an assistant coach under during the2010 FIFA World Cup. He also served as assistant toJoel Santana during the2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, Parreira's successor and later predecessor.
On 15 July 2010, Mosimane was named as the new head coach of South Africa and was handed a four-year contract.[3] He won his first game in charge in a 1–0 win over World Cup quarter-finalistsGhana. South Africa failed to qualify for the2012 African Cup of Nations after Mosimane mistakenly played for a draw in the final qualifier againstSierra Leone, when in fact a victory was required.[4]
In 2012, Mosimane became the manager ofMamelodi Sundowns. He won the2016 CAF Champions League with Mamelodi Sundowns after defeatingEgypt'sZamalek 3–1 on aggregate,[5] making them the 2nd South African side to win it afterOrlando Pirates in 1995.
In December 2016, Mosimane was ranked as the 10th best coach in the world for 2016, according to theInternational Federation of Football History and Statistics[6] (IFFHS).
On 5 January 2017, Mosimane won the Coach of the Year accolade at the 2016Glo-CAF awards in Abuja, Nigeria after guiding Mamelodi Sundowns to league glory in 2015–16 and claiming theTelkom Knockout trophy which meant Mosimane stood alone as the only coach to have made a clean sweep of all domestic trophies in the PSL era.[7]
On 6 April 2019, Mosimane led his team Mamelodi Sundowns to a 5–0 win against Egyptian clubAl Ahly in the2018–19 CAF Champions League quarter-finals,[8] in which he won 5–1 on aggregate to reach the semi-finals.
Mosimane is generally regarded as the most successful manager in South African football history, winning fiveABSA Premiership titles with Mamelodi Sundowns.[9] In late September 2020, Mosimane resigned as Mamelodi Sundowns coach.[10]
On 30 September 2020, Mosimane was announced to be the head coach ofAl Ahly.[11] He was the first non-Egyptian African to manage the club.[12]
On 27 November 2020, Mosimane led Al Ahly to their 9th CAF Champions league title, after winning the2020 final against their rivalsZamalek,[13] and to qualify to the2020 FIFA Club World Cup,[14] where they eventually finished in third place after beatingPalmeiras on penalties.[15] On 6 December 2020, he led Al Ahly to win theEgyptian Cup. In May 2021, he guided the football club to win theAfrican Super Cup againstRS Berkane inDoha, Qatar.[16]
On 17 July 2021, Al Ahly won their second CAF Champions league title under Mosimane and their 10th in total after a 3–0 win overKaizer Chiefs in thefinal.[17]Rory Smith argued that this eight-month tenure, in which Al Ahly won three trophies, made Mosimane one of the best managers in world football for the year.[12] In December 2021, he won anotherAfrican Super Cup in Qatar againstRaja Casablanca.[18] On 13 June 2022, Al Ahly accepted Mosimane's request to step down as their manager.[19]
On 25 September 2022, Mosimane was appointed as manager of Saudi Arabian clubAl-Ahli Jeddah.[20] He left in June 2023 after guiding them to promotion, and had claimed that he and his technical staff had not been paid since January.[21][22]
On 18 June 2023, shortly after his departure from Al Ahli Jeddah, Mosimane joined Abu Dhabi sideAl Wahda along with his technical staff.[23][24] Later that year, on 10 November, Al-Wahda announced the terminated of contract with Mosimane by mutual consent.[25]
On 26 January 2024, Mosimane joined Saudi Arabia clubAbha on a four-month contract which would take him to the end of the season.[26]
On 18 October 2024, Mosimane was appointed coach of Iranian clubEsteghlal in thePersian Gulf Pro League.[27]He terminated his contract on 28 January 2025 withEsteghlal due to financial problems. His results during his time at Esteghlal were very poor .
| Team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 1993 | 2 | 1 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 4 | 1 | |
| Team | Nation | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||||||
| SuperSport United |  | 1 July 2001 | 30 June 2006 | 184 | 83 | 53 | 48 | 045.11 | |||
| South Africa | |||||||||||
| 15 July 2010 | 5 June 2012 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 035.29 | |||||
| Mamelodi Sundowns | 2 December 2012 | 30 September 2020 | 332 | 187 | 78 | 67 | 056.33 | ||||
| Al Ahly |  | 30 September 2020 | 13 June 2022 | 97 | 65 | 22 | 10 | 067.01 | |||
| Al-Ahli |  | 25 September 2022 | 13 June 2023 | 29 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 065.52 | |||
| Al Wahda |  | 18 June 2023 | 10 November 2023 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 057.14 | |||
| Abha | | 11 January 2024 | 30 June 2024 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 033.33 | |||
| Esteghlal |  | 24 October 2024 | 26 January 2025 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 020.00 | |||
| Total | 703 | 376 | 180 | 147 | 053.49 | ||||||
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