Phillip Cocu

**Phillip John-William Cocu** (October 29, 1970-December 15, 2025)was a Dutch professional football manager and former midfielder who was most recently the manager of Vitesse.

### Cocu was born in Eindhoven but raised in Zevenaar, playing youth football for local clubs DCS and De Graafschap. After a year at AFC '34, he started his professional career at AZ. In 1990, Cocu moved to Vitesse. A broken fibula disrupted his first season, but he became a first-team regular in the following four seasons. In 1995, he joined PSV, where he won the KNVB Cup and the Eredivisie title in 1997. Cocu played for Barcelona between 1998 and 2004. There, he would become club captain, win La Liga in 1999 and play two Champions League semi-finals. He left the club in 2004 as club record holder for the most league appearances by a foreign player. During Cocu's second stint at PSV, he won another three Eredivisie titles and reached the Champions League semi-finals. After a year at Al Jazira, Cocu retired from professional football.

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3"|AZ|1988–89|Eerste Divisie|15|4|2|1|–|–|17|5|||
|1989–90|Eerste Divisie|35|4|1|0|–|–|36|4|||||
|rowspan="6"|Vitesse|1990–91|Eredivisie|8|0|0|0|–|–|8|0|||
|1991–92|Eredivisie|33|3|2|0|–|–|35|3|||||
|1992–93|Eredivisie|34|6|2|1|6|1|–|42|8||||
|1993–94|Eredivisie|33|11|1|0|2|0|–|36|11||||
|1994–95|Eredivisie|29|5|1|1|2|0|–|32|6||||
|rowspan="4"|PSV|1995–96|Eredivisie|29|12|4|2|8|2|–|41|16||
|1996–97|Eredivisie|34|8|2|0|4|1|1|0|41|9|||
|1997–98|Eredivisie|32|11|5|3|6|1|1|2|44|17|||
|rowspan="7"|Barcelona|1998–99|La Liga|36|12|4|0|5|0|2|0|47|12|
|1999–2000|La Liga|35|6|2|0|14|2|2|0|53|8|||
|2000–01|La Liga|35|3|7|0|13|1|–|55|4||||
|2001–02|La Liga|34|2|0|0|16|0|–|50|2||||
|2002–03|La Liga|29|3|0|0|10|2|–|39|5||||
|2003–04|La Liga|36|5|5|0|7|1|–|48|6||||
|rowspan="4"|PSV|2004–05|Eredivisie|29|6|3|1|13|3|–|45|10||
|2005–06|Eredivisie|33|10|4|2|8|1|1|0|46|13|||
|2006–07|Eredivisie|32|7|2|0|7|0|1|1|42|8|||
|Al Jazira|2007–08|UAE Football League|17|4|||–|||17|4|||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="11"|Netherlands|1996|9|2|
|1997|6|0|||
|1998|15|2|||
|1999|7|0|||
|2000|13|0|||
|2001|8|1|||
|2002|7|1|||
|2003|9|1|||
|2004|13|1|||
|2005|7|2|||
|2006|7|0|||

- _Scores and results list the Netherlands goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Cocu goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|4 June 1996|De Kuip, Rotterdam||3–1|3–1|Friendly||||||||
|2|9 October 1996|Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands||5–1|7–1|1998 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|3|20 June 1998|Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, France||1–0|5–0|1998 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|4|25 June 1998|Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne, France||1–0|2–2|1998 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|5|5 September 2001|Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands||3–0|5–0|2002 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|6|16 October 2002|Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria||2–0|3–0|UEFA Euro 2004 qualification||||||||
|7|6 September 2003|De Kuip, Rotterdam||3–1|3–1|UEFA Euro 2004 qualification||||||||
|8|17 November 2004|Mini Estadi, Barcelona, Spain||1–0|3–0|2006 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|9|26 March 2005|Stadionul Giulești, Bucharest, Romania||1–0|2–0|2006 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|10|8 June 2005|Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland||3–0|4–0|2006 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||

## Managerial statistics

|rowspan="2"|Team|rowspan="2"|Nat|rowspan="2"|From|rowspan="2"|To|colspan="8"|Record|rowspan=2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|PSV (caretaker)||align=left|12 March 2012|align=left|2 July 2012||||||
|align=left|PSV||align=left|1 July 2013|align=left|22 June 2018||||||
|align=left|Fenerbahçe||align=left|22 June 2018|align=left|28 October 2018||||||
|align=left|Derby County||align=left|5 July 2019|align=left|14 November 2020||||||
|align=left|Vitesse||align=left|27 September 2022|align=left|11 November 2023||||||

### Player

**PSV**
- Eredivisie: 1996–97, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07
- KNVB Cup: 1995–96, 2004–05
- Johan Cruyff Shield: 1996, 1997

**Barcelona**
- La Liga: 1998–99

**Al Jazira**
- Gulf Club Champions Cup: 2007

### Manager

**PSV**
- Eredivisie: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18
- KNVB Cup: 2011–12
- Johan Cruyff Shield: 2015, 2016

**Individual**
- Rinus Michels Award: 2015, 2018

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Phillip Cocu
- **image**: PSV Eindhoven, Teamcamp Bad Erlach, July 2014 (002).jpg
- **caption**: Cocu in 2014
- **full name**: Phillip John-William Cocu
- **birth date**: October 29, 1970
- **birth place**: Eindhoven, Netherlands
- **height**: 1.82 m
- **position**: Midfielder
- **years1**: 1988–1990
- **clubs1**: AZ Alkmaar
- **caps1**: 50
- **goals1**: 8
- **years2**: 1990–1995
- **clubs2**: SBV Vitesse, Vitesse
- **caps2**: 137
- **goals2**: 25
- **years3**: 1995–1998
- **clubs3**: PSV Eindhoven, PSV
- **caps3**: 95
- **goals3**: 31
- **years4**: 1998–2004
- **clubs4**: FC Barcelona, Barcelona
- **caps4**: 205
- **goals4**: 31
- **years5**: 2004–2007
- **clubs5**: PSV Eindhoven, PSV
- **caps5**: 94
- **goals5**: 23
- **years6**: 2007–2008
- **clubs6**: Al Jazira Club, Al Jazira
- **caps6**: 17
- **goals6**: 4
- **totalcaps**: 598
- **totalgoals**: 122
- **nationalyears1**: 1996–2006
- **nationalteam1**: Netherlands national football team, Netherlands
- **nationalcaps1**: 101
- **nationalgoals1**: 10
- **manageryears1**: 2008–2012
- **managerclubs1**: Netherlands national football team, Netherlands (assistant)
- **manageryears2**: 2012
- **managerclubs2**: PSV Eindhoven, PSV (caretaker)
- **manageryears3**: 2013–2018
- **managerclubs3**: PSV Eindhoven, PSV
- **manageryears4**: 2018
- **managerclubs4**: Fenerbahçe S.K. (football), Fenerbahçe
- **manageryears5**: 2019–2020
- **managerclubs5**: Derby County F.C., Derby County
- **manageryears6**: 2022–2023
- **managerclubs6**: SBV Vitesse, Vitesse
- **death date**: December 15, 2025 (Aged 55)
- **death place**: Amsterdam, Netherlands