Arne Slot

Arend Martijn "Arne" Slot (Dutch pronunciation: ; born 17 September 1978) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who was most recently the head coach of Premier League club Liverpool.

Slot played as a midfielder for FC Zwolle, where he won the Eerste Divisie in 2002, NAC Breda and Sparta Rotterdam before retiring as a player back at PEC Zwolle, where he won another Eerste Divisie title in 2012.

He started his managerial career in the academy of PEC Zwolle and as an assistant at Cambuur before taking over as co-head coach at the latter. In 2017, he became an assistant at AZ, where he was appointed head coach in 2019. Slot became head coach of Feyenoord in 2021. He led the club to the 2022 UEFA Europa Conference League final in his first season and won the club the Eredivisie and the KNVB Cup in subsequent seasons. He joined Liverpool in 2024, leading the side to a Premier League title in his first season at the club and becoming the first Dutch manager to win the competition, before his dismissal at the end of the following season.