Hernán Crespo

**Hernán Jorge Crespo** (; born 5 July 1975) is an Argentine professional football coach and former player. He was most recently the manager of Qatari club Al-Duhail.

Crespo scored over 300 goals in 19 years. At international level, he scored 35 goals and is Argentina's fourth highest goalscorer.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|League cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="4"|River Plate|1993–94|Primera División|25|16|—|—|3|0|—|28|16||||
|1994–95|Primera División|18|4|—|—|4|2|—|22|6||||||
|1995–96|Primera División|21|4|—|—|13|10|—|34|14||||||
|rowspan=5|Parma|1996–97|Serie A|27|12|1|0|—|—|—|28|12||||
|1997–98|Serie A|25|12|2|0|—|8|2|—|35|14|||||
|1998–99|Serie A|30|16|7|6|—|8|6|—|45|28|||||
|1999–2000|Serie A|34|22|2|1|–|5|3|2|1|43|27||||
|rowspan=3|Lazio|2000–01|Serie A|32|26|1|0|—|6|2|1|0|40|28||
|2001–02|Serie A|22|13|4|4|—|7|3|—|33|20|||||
|Inter Milan|2002–03|Serie A|18|7|0|0|—|12|9|—|30|16||||
|rowspan="3"|Chelsea|2003–04|Premier League|19|10|0|0|2|0|10|2|—|31|12||
|2005–06|Premier League|30|10|5|1|1|0|5|2|1|0|42|13|||
|Milan (loan)|2004–05|Serie A|28|10|1|1|—|10|6|1|0|40|17|||
|rowspan="3"|Inter Milan (loan)|2006–07|Serie A|29|14|4|4|—|6|1|1|1|40|20||
|2007–08|Serie A|19|4|5|2|—|5|1|—|29|7|||||
|Inter Milan|2008–09|Serie A|14|2|3|0|—|0|0|—|17|2||||
|Genoa|2009–10|Serie A|16|5|1|0|—|4|2|—|21|7||||
|rowspan="4"|Parma|2009–10|Serie A|13|1|0|0|—|—|—|13|1||||
|2010–11|Serie A|29|9|2|2|—|—|—|31|11||||||
|2011–12|Serie A|4|0|2|2|—|—|—|6|2||||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="13"|Argentina|1995|1|0|
|1996|2|0|||
|1997|9|3|||
|1998|3|3|||
|1999|4|1|||
|2000|8|4|||
|2001|6|6|||
|2002|4|2|||
|2003|5|3|||
|2004|4|1|||
|2005|7|6|||
|2006|6|3|||
|2007|5|3|||

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|30 April 1997|El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina||2–0|2–1|1998 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|2|8 June 1997|El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina||1–0|2–0|1998 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|3|20 July 1997|El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina||1–0|2–0|1998 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|4|24 February 1998|Estadio José María Minella, Mar del Plata, Argentina||1–0|3–1|Friendly||||||||
|5|2–1|||||||||||||
|6|3–1|||||||||||||
|7|4 September 1999|El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina||2–0|2–0|Friendly||||||||
|8|26 April 2000|Estadio José Pachencho Romero, Maracaibo, Venezuela||4–0|4–0|2002 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|9|29 June 2000|Estadio El Campín, Bogotá, Colombia||3–1|3–1|2002 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|10|19 July 2000|El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina||1–0|2–0|2002 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|11|3 September 2000|Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru||1–0|2–1|2002 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|12|28 February 2001|Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy||2–1|2–1|Friendly||||||||
|13|28 March 2001|El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina||1–0|5–0|2002 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|14|28 April 2001|Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia||1–1|3–3|2002 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|15|2–3|||||||||||||
|16|3 June 2001|El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina||3–0|3–0|2002 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|17|15 August 2001|Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito, Ecuador||2–0|2–0|2002 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|18|12 June 2002|Hitomebore Stadium Miyagi, Rifu, Miyagi, Japan||1–1|1–1|2002 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|19|20 November 2002|Saitama Stadium, Saitama, Japan||2–0|2–0|Friendly||||||||
|20|9 September 2003|Estadio Olímpico, Caracas, Venezuela||2–0|3–0|2006 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|21|15 November 2003|El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina||2–0|3–0|2006 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|22|19 November 2003|Estadio Metropolitano, Barranquilla, Colombia||1–0|1–1|2006 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|23|30 March 2004|El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina||1–0|1–0|2006 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|24|9 February 2005|LTU-Arena, Düsseldorf, Germany||1–1|2–2|Friendly||||||||
|25|2–2|||||||||||||
|26|30 March 2005|El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina||1–0|1–0|2006 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|27|8 June 2005|El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina||1–0|3–1|2006 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|28|3–0|||||||||||||
|29|12 November 2005|Stade de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland||1–0|2–3|Friendly||||||||
|30|10 June 2006|FIFA WM Stadion Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany||1–0|2–1|2006 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|31|16 June 2006|FIFA WM Stadion Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany||4–0|6–0|2006 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|32|24 June 2006|Zentralstadion, Leipzig, Germany||1–1|2–1|2006 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|33|28 June 2007|Estadio José Pachencho Romero, Maracaibo, Venezuela||1–1|4–1|2007 Copa América||||||||
|34|2–1|||||||||||||
|35|2 July 2007|Estadio José Pachencho Romero, Maracaibo, Venezuela||1–1|4–2|2007 Copa América||||||||

## Managerial statistics

|rowspan="2"|Team|rowspan="2"|Nat|rowspan="2"|From|rowspan="2"|To|colspan="8"|Record|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|Modena|align=left||align=left|1 July 2015|align=left|26 March 2016|||
|align=left|Banfield|rowspan="2"||align=left|1 January 2019|align=left|3 September 2019|||
|align=left|Defensa y Justicia|align=left|27 January 2020|align=left|7 February 2021|||||
|align=left|São Paulo|align=left||align=left|12 February 2021|align=left|13 October 2021|||
|align=left|Al-Duhail|align=left||align=left|24 March 2022|align=left|3 October 2023|||
|align=left|Al Ain|align=left||align=left|8 November 2023|align=left|present|||

### Player

**River Plate**
- Argentine Primera División: 1993 (Apertura), 1994 (Apertura)
- Copa Libertadores: 1996

**Parma**
- Coppa Italia: 1998–99
- Supercoppa Italiana: 1999
- UEFA Cup: 1998–99

**Lazio**
- Supercoppa Italiana: 2000

**A.C. Milan**
- Supercoppa Italiana: 2004
- UEFA Champions League runner-up: 2004-05

**Chelsea**
- Premier League: 2005–06
- FA Community Shield: 2005

**Inter Milan**
- Serie A: 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09
- Supercoppa Italiana: 2006, 2008
- Coppa Italia runner-up:  2006-07, 2007-08

**Argentina U23**
- Pan American Games: 1995
- Summer Olympics Silver medal: 1996

**Argentina**
- Copa America runner-up:  2007

**Individual**
- Argentine Primera División top scorer: 1993–94
- Football at the Summer Olympics top scorer: 1996 (shared)
- UEFA Cup Final Man of the Match: 1999
- Coppa Italia top scorer: 1998–99, 2006–07 (shared)
- Serie A top scorer: 2000–01
- ESM Team of the Year: 2000–01
- FIFA 100
- FIFA World Cup Silver Shoe: 2006
- FIFA World Cup All-star team: 2006
- FIFPro World XI nominee: 2005, 2006

### Manager

**Defensa y Justicia**
- Copa Sudamericana: 2020

**São Paulo**
- Campeonato Paulista: 2021

**Al-Duhail**
- Qatar Stars League: 2022–23
- Qatari Stars Cup: 2022–23
- Qatar Cup: 2023

**Individual**
- Copa Sudamericana Manager of the Year: 2020
- Campeonato Paulista Manager of the Year: 2021

## Other websites

- Profile at La Gazzetta dello Sport 2009–10
- BBC profile

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Hernán Crespo
- **image**: Chelsea Legends 1 Inter Forever 4 (27457022797).jpg
- **caption**: Crespo with Inter Milan in 2018
- **full name**: Hernán Jorge Crespo
- **height**: 1.84 m
- **birth place**: Florida, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- **currentclub**: Al Ain FC, Al Ain (head coach)
- **position**: Forward (association football)#Striker, Striker
- **youthyears1**: 1988–1993
- **youthclubs1**: Club Atlético River Plate, River Plate
- **years1**: 1993–1996
- **clubs1**: Club Atlético River Plate, River Plate
- **caps1**: 62
- **goals1**: 24
- **years2**: 1996–2000
- **clubs2**: Parma Calcio 1913, Parma
- **caps2**: 116
- **goals2**: 62
- **years3**: 2000–2002
- **clubs3**: S.S. Lazio, Lazio
- **caps3**: 54
- **goals3**: 39
- **years4**: 2002–2003
- **clubs4**: Inter Milan, Internazionale
- **caps4**: 18
- **goals4**: 7
- **years5**: 2003–2008
- **clubs5**: Chelsea F.C., Chelsea
- **caps5**: 49
- **goals5**: 20
- **years6**: 2004–2005
- **clubs6**: → AC Milan, Milan (loan)
- **caps6**: 28
- **goals6**: 10
- **years7**: 2006–2008
- **clubs7**: → Inter Milan, Internazionale (loan)
- **caps7**: 49
- **goals7**: 18
- **years8**: 2008–2009
- **clubs8**: Inter Milan, Internazionale
- **caps8**: 14
- **goals8**: 2
- **years9**: 2009–2010
- **clubs9**: Genoa C.F.C., Genoa
- **caps9**: 16
- **goals9**: 5
- **years10**: 2010–2012
- **clubs10**: Parma Calcio 1913, Parma
- **caps10**: 46
- **goals10**: 10
- **totalcaps**: 453
- **totalgoals**: 197
- **nationalyears1**: 1996
- **nationalteam1**: Argentina national under-23 football team, Argentina U23
- **nationalcaps1**: 6
- **nationalgoals1**: 6
- **nationalyears2**: 1995–2007
- **nationalteam2**: Argentina national football team, Argentina
- **nationalcaps2**: 64
- **nationalgoals2**: 35
- **manageryears1**: 2014–2015
- **managerclubs1**: Parma Calcio 1913 Youth Sector, Parma Primavera
- **manageryears2**: 2015–2016
- **managerclubs2**: Modena F.C. 2018, Modena
- **manageryears3**: 2019–2020
- **managerclubs3**: Club Atlético Banfield, Banfield
- **manageryears4**: 2020–2021
- **managerclubs4**: Defensa y Justicia
- **manageryears5**: 2021
- **managerclubs5**: São Paulo FC, São Paulo
- **manageryears6**: 2022–2023
- **managerclubs6**: Al-Duhail SC, Al-Duhail
- **manageryears7**: 2023–
- **managerclubs7**: Al Ain FC, Al Ain