Evans Adotey

Evans Adotey
Personal information
Full name Evans Augustine Adotey
Date of birth (1964-09-24) 24 September 1964 (age 59)
Team information
Current team
 Medeama (manager)
Managerial career
Years Team
2013 Medeama
2014–2017 Ghana women's U17
2016–2017 Medeama
2020–2021 Karela United
2023– Medeama
Ghanaian football team manager

Evans Augustine Adotey (born 24 September 1964) is a Ghanaian football team manager who currently coaches Ghana Premier League side Medeama. He previously coached Ghana women's national under-17 football team and Karela United.[1][2]

Coaching career

Medeama

Adotey joined Medeama in 2013 as an assistant coach. In March 2013, he was appointed as interim coach[3] and lead the club to their first Ghana FA Cup win and led them to a 4th place finish by the end of the 2012–13 Ghana Premier League season.[4][5]

He later served as the assistant coach to Hans van der Pluijm from 2013 to 2015.[5] In November 2015, he was promoted to the position of technical director for the club, serving in that role from 2015 to 2017.[6][7] He served as interim coach after Tom Strand left the club,[4][5] and later doubled as head coach of the club and technical director from 2016 to 2017 especially during the 2017 Ghana Premier League.[8][9][10] During his 4-year period with the club as interim head coach, assistant coach and technical director, he helped the club to win two Ghana FA Cup in 2013 and 2015 and the Ghana Super Cup in 2016.[4][11][12]

Ghana national teams

Adotey served as coach for the Ghana women's national under-17 football team, the Black Maidens from 2014 to 2019, in the process leading the team to three consecutive quarter-final place in three FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup campaigns.[13] In January 2020, he was appointed as the 1st assistant coach of the Ghana national under-20 football team to Abdul-Karim Zito.[1][2][14]

Karela United

On 14 April 2020, Karela United announced the appointment of Adotey as the team's new head coach succeeding Enos Adepa who had left the club via a mutual agreement in March.[15][2][13] The club was 17th on the 2019–20 Ghana Premier League table with 11 points at the time of his appointment, following a 15-game run in which they won only two league matches while losing seven and drawing four before the league was suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. His main task was to get the club out of the relegation zone if the league resumed, but it was later cancelled in July 2020.[1][2][16]

In February 2021, Adotey was named coach of the month for January 2021, and Karela United striker Diawisie Taylor also being named player of the month after an impressive performance in which the club won three matches, drew one, and lost one out of five matches in the month of January.[17][18][19]

Honours

Manager

Medeama

Individual

References

  1. ^ a b c "GHPL: Karela appoint Evans Adotey as new head coach". Citi Sports Online. 2020-04-14. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d "Evans Adotey Appointed New Karela United Head Coach". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Evans Adotey appointed Medeama interim coach until end of season". GhanaSoccernet. 2013-03-21. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Medeama announce departure of long-serving Coach Evans Adotey". GhanaWeb. 2017-11-08. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  5. ^ a b c "Former Berekum Chelsea Coach Hans Van Der Pluijm joins Medeama SC". Goal. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Medeama appoints UEFA Pro License coach as Technical Director". GhanaWeb. 2021-02-12. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  7. ^ "Medeama announce Augustine Evans Adotey is the club's new technical director". GhanaSoccernet. 2015-11-25. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  8. ^ Adjanor, Eric (2017-11-07). "I will not continue as Medeama head coach-Evans Adotey". Football Made In Ghana. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  9. ^ "Medeama coach Evans Adotey gutted by the team's G6 competition exit". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  10. ^ "Adotey appointed stop-gap Medeama coach". Goal. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  11. ^ Kapoor, Daraja Jr. (2020-11-03). "Know your coaches for 2020/21 GPL Season: Profile- Karela United coach Evans Adotey". Football Made In Ghana. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Evans Adotey to take charge of Medeama". My Joy Online. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  13. ^ a b "Karela United appoint former Ghana women's U17 coach Adotey as new boss". Goal. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  14. ^ "Abdul Karim Zito appointed as Black Satellites head coach". Ghana Football Association. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  15. ^ "Adotey appointed head coach of Karela United". Graphic Online. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  16. ^ "Evans Augustine Adotey: All is not lost for Karela United". Graphic Online. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  17. ^ "2020/21 Ghana Premier League: Karela United forward Diawise Taylor named Player of the Month for January". GhanaSoccernet. 2021-02-13. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
  18. ^ a b "GPL: Diawusie Taylor, Evans Adotey win January awards". Citi Sports Online. 14 February 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  19. ^ "GPL: Evans Adotey wins NASCO coach of January award". My News Ghana. 2021-02-13. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
  20. ^ "Medeama win first Ghana Premier League title". My Joy Online. 11 June 2023. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  21. ^ "Gordon wins MVP as Medeama sweep MTN FA Cup awards". GhanaSoccernet. 2013-09-01. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  22. ^ "Augustine Adotey wins NASCO coach of the month for March award". Ghana Football Association. 19 April 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  23. ^ "Coach Augustine Evans Adotey wins NASCO coach of the month for May/June". Ghana Football Association. 21 June 2023. Retrieved 24 June 2023.

External links

  • Evans Adotey at Global Sports Archive
  • Evans Adotey at Soccerway