Louis van Gaal

**Louis van Gaal** (born 8 August 1951) is a former Dutch football player and international club manager. He was the manager of Manchester United.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="2"|League|colspan="2"|Cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3"|Ajax|1971–72|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0||
|1972–73|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0||||
|rowspan="5"|Royal Antwerp|1973–74|9|2|3|0|—|12|2|||
|1974–75|3|0|6|2|—|9|2|||||
|1975–76|19|4|2|2|4|0|25|6||||
|1976–77|10|1|1|0|—|11|1|||||
|Telstar|1977–78|25|1|—|—|25|1|||||
|rowspan="9"|Sparta Rotterdam|1978–79|31|5|—|—|31|5||||
|1979–80|33|1|—|—|33|1||||||
|1980–81|33|5|—|—|33|5||||||
|1981–82|24|1|—|—|24|1||||||
|1982–83|33|5|—|—|33|5||||||
|1983–84|34|2|—|6|0|40|2|||||
|1984–85|30|4|3|0|—|33|4|||||
|1985–86|31|3|—|4|0|35|3|||||
|AZ|1986–87|17|0|—|—|17|0|||||

## Managerial statistics

|rowspan="2"|Team|rowspan="2"|From|rowspan="2"|To|colspan="6"|Record|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Ajax|28 September 1991|30 June 1997||||||
|Barcelona|1 July 1997|20 May 2000||||||
|Netherlands|7 July 2000|30 November 2001||||||
|Barcelona|1 July 2002|28 January 2003||||||
|AZ|1 July 2005|30 June 2009||||||
|Bayern Munich|1 July 2009|10 April 2011||||||
|Netherlands|6 July 2012|12 July 2014||||||
|Manchester United|16 July 2014|23 May 2016||||||
|Netherlands|4 August 2021|9 December 2022||||||

### Manager

**Ajax**
- Eredivisie: 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96
- KNVB Cup: 1992–93
- Johan Cruyff Shield: 1993, 1994, 1995
- UEFA Champions League: 1994–95; runner-up: 1995–96
- UEFA Cup: 1991–92
- UEFA Super Cup: 1995
- Intercontinental Cup: 1995

**Barcelona**
- La Liga: 1997–98, 1998–99
- Copa del Rey: 1997–98
- UEFA Super Cup: 1997

**AZ**
- Eredivisie: 2008–09

**Bayern Munich**
- Bundesliga: 2009–10
- DFB-Pokal: 2009–10
- DFL-Supercup: 2010
- UEFA Champions League runner-up: 2009–10

**Manchester United**
- FA Cup: 2015–16

**Netherlands**
- FIFA World Cup third place: 2014

### Awards and achievements

- World Soccer Manager of the Year: 1995
- Onze d'Or Coach of the Year: 1995
- El País Manager of the Year: 1995
- Rinus Michels Award: 2007, 2009
- Dutch Sports Coach of the Year: 2009, 2014
- Die Sprachwahrer des Jahres (3rd place): 2009
- Football Manager of the Year (Germany): 2010
- Anton Geesink Award: 2015
- Dutch Lifetime Achievement Award: 2017
- France Football 18th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2019
- Eredivisie Oeuvre Award: 2023

### Orders

- Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau: 1997

## Publications

- _De trainer en de totale mens_, Leipzig, Leibniz-Blätter-Verlag, 2021.

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Louis van Gaal
- **image**: Louis van Gaal 2014.jpg
- **caption**: Van Gaal in 2014
- **fullname**: Aloysius Paulus Maria van Gaal
- **birth place**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **height**: 1.85 m
- **position**: Midfielder
- **currentclub**: AFC Ajax, Ajax (advisor)
- **youthclubs1**: RKSV de Meer
- **clubs1**: RKSV de Meer
- **years2**: 1972–1973
- **clubs2**: AFC Ajax, Ajax
- **caps2**: 0
- **goals2**: 0
- **years3**: 1973–1977
- **clubs3**: Royal Antwerp F.C., Royal Antwerp
- **caps3**: 41
- **goals3**: 7
- **years4**: 1977–1978
- **clubs4**: SC Telstar, Telstar
- **caps4**: 25
- **goals4**: 1
- **years5**: 1978–1986
- **clubs5**: Sparta Rotterdam
- **caps5**: 248
- **goals5**: 26
- **years6**: 1986–1987
- **clubs6**: AZ Alkmaar, AZ
- **caps6**: 17
- **goals6**: 0
- **totalcaps**: 331
- **totalgoals**: 34
- **manageryears1**: 1988–1990
- **managerclubs1**: Ajax Youth Academy, Ajax (youth)
- **manageryears2**: 1991–1997
- **managerclubs2**: AFC Ajax, Ajax
- **manageryears3**: 1997–2000
- **managerclubs3**: FC Barcelona, Barcelona
- **manageryears4**: 2000–2001
- **managerclubs4**: Netherlands national football team, Netherlands
- **manageryears5**: 2001
- **managerclubs5**: Netherlands national under-19 football team, Netherlands U20
- **manageryears6**: 2002–2003
- **managerclubs6**: FC Barcelona, Barcelona
- **manageryears7**: 2005–2009
- **managerclubs7**: AZ Alkmaar, AZ
- **manageryears8**: 2009–2011
- **managerclubs8**: FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich
- **manageryears9**: 2012–2014
- **managerclubs9**: Netherlands national football team, Netherlands
- **manageryears10**: 2014–2016
- **managerclubs10**: Manchester United F.C., Manchester United
- **manageryears11**: 2021–2022
- **managerclubs11**: Netherlands national football team, Netherlands
- **medaltemplates**: <small>(as manager)</small>