Spurs First Team Coaching Staff

Current Head Coach Ange Postecoglou has been in charge of Spurs since he took over ahead of the 2023/24 Premier League season on 6th June 2023, succeeding Antonio Conte. The Australian’s appointment at the club followed interim managerial spells for Cristian Stellini and Ryan Mason.

Ange Postecoglou has won a considerable amount of silverware over the course of his managerial career to date. With South Melbourne in his native Australia, he won the 1997/98 National Soccer League Premiership title.

Fast forward to the 2010/11 season, where he led Brisbane Roar to the A League Premiership and Championship titles. He won the A League Championship title in 2011/12.

He then won the AFC Asian Cup title in 2015 with Australia, before winning the J League title in Japan with Yokohama F. Marinos in 2019.

Ange Postecoglou then spent 2 years at Scottish Champions Celtic, where he won the Scottish Premiership title in the 2021/22 and 2022/23 seasons. He also led the Glasgow heavyweights to the 2022/23 Scottish Cup title and the 2021/22 and the 2022/23 Scottish League Cup titles.

Ange Postecoglou had a brief playing career, and he never played a game of professional football, spending his career as a player in the semi-professional game. He made 193 appearances for South Melbourne between 1984 and 1993, scoring 27 goals, before a brief spell with Western Suburbs, also in Australia, in 1994. He did have four senior caps for the Australia National Football Team between 1986 and 1988, as well as representing his country at youth level in 1985.

Following retirement, his managerial career began with South Melbourne, spending 4 years there between 1996 and 2000, where he did go on to win the aforementioned 1997/98 National Soccer League Premiership title.

He then moved on to the Australia Under 17 and Under 20 teams between 2000 and 2007, winning the Under 17 Championship three times (2001, 2003 & 2005) and the OFC Under 20 Championship title (2001, 2002 & 2005), as well as the AFF Under 20 Youth Championship in 2006.

Brief spells at Panachaiki (Greece) in 2008 and Whittlesea Zebras (Australia) in 2009, he then took over at Australian heavyweights Brisbane Roar in 2009, where he would go on to spend 3 years with before leaving in 2012.

He then took over the Senior Australia National Football Team in 2013, where he would spend 4 years before leaving in 2017. During his time with the Socceroos, he led them to the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, where they beat Son Heung-Min’s South Korea 2 – 1 after extra time in the Final at the Stadium Australia in Sydney. A crowd of no less than 76, 385 watched this game.

After leaving the Australian National team, he took charge of Japan’s Yokohama F. Marinos from 2018 to 2021, after which he enjoyed his very successful two year spell with Celtic between 2021 and 2023, before taking over at Spurs on 6th June 2023.

Ange Postecoglou said:

“They wanted me to extend my time at Celtic and while I am so respectful and understanding of their position, a new opportunity has been presented to me and it is one which I wanted to explore. (Via Sky Sports)”

Ange Postecoglou 🎶 pic.twitter.com/m94sxoZl4n

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) August 26, 2023

Matt Wells is Ange Postecoglou’s Senior Assistant Coach, joining alongside the Australian Head Coach back on Tuesday 27th June 2023.

Wells brings with him a wealth of experience with the likes of Fulham (Coach, 2019 – 2021), AFC Bournemouth (Assistant Coach, 2021 – 2022) and Club Brugge (Assistant Coach, 2022 – 2023). He has also previously spent time at the club as assistant coach for the Under 23s (2014 – 2017) and the Under 18s (2017 – 2018). Wells did also become Head Coach of Spurs’ Under 18s side between 2018 and 2019.

His spells with Fulham, Bournemouth and Club Brugge all came alongside Scott Parker’s spells as Head Coach at each of these respective clubs.

Unfortunately, Matt Wells never played senior football as a result of injury issues and he was forced into an early retirement from his playing career at the age of just 20, gaining his UEFA B Licence at the same age. He did spend his whole youth football career with Tottenham Hotspur, between 1997 and 2008, after joining the North London Club at the age of just nine.

Ryan Mason is an Academy product of Tottenham Hotspur, making 70 appearances for the first team before transferring to Hull.

In 2017, Mason’s footballing career ended after he suffered a fractured skull during the Chelsea v Hull match at Stamford Bridge.

A year later, Mason returned to his boyhood club Spurs as the Academy’s Head of Player Development in 2018.
He later joined the first team coaching staff before stepping stepped up as the interim head coach for Tottenham Hotspur in the final seven games of the 2020/21 season after Jose Mourinho was dismissed from his post.

Mason did have another brief spell as Interim Head Coach in the latter half of the 2022/23 season, a short time before the appointment of Ange Postecoglou.

Following the appointment of Postecoglou, Mason is now one of four Assistant Coaches at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. The former Spurs and Hull City midfielder was appointed into his current position at the club back on Tuesday 27th June 2023.

Moving on to Mile Jedinak, he has been an Assistant Coach at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club since joining the Lilywhites back on Tuesday 27th June 2023, shortly after the announcement of Ange Postecoglou’s appointment as the club’s latest Head Coach a couple of weeks earlier.

Jedinak had a playing career spanning 18 years, between 2001 and his retirement from playing back in 2019. The former Australia international began his career as a player with Sydney United, making 84 appearances and scoring 12 goals at Senior level for the club, whilst also having loan spells with Varteks (Croatia, 2003 – 2004) and South Coast United (Australia, 2005) before moving on to pastures new with Central Coast Mariners in 2006.

During his time with the Central Coast Mariners, Jedinak was part of the team to win the A League Premiership title in the 2007/08 season after the club had managed to accumulate a total of 34 points from their 21 matches, finishing top on goal difference ahead of the Newcastle Jets. The Jets did end up beating the Central Coast Mariners 1 – 0 in the A League Grand Final, becoming that season’s Champions.

After three years at the Central Coast Mariners, the central midfielder left for Turkey, signing for Gençlerbirliği SK in 2009. After 38 appearances and 4 goals and a loan spell in the 2009/10 season at fellow Turkish outfit Antalyaspor, Jedinak moved to England to play for Crystal Palace in the EFL Championship in 2011.

During his 5 year spell with the Eagles, he was a talismanic figure and club captain, leading the South London Club to promotion to the Premier League in 2013 after beating Watford 1 – 0 in the Promotion Play-Off Final at Wembley.

He went on to spend the last 3 years of his career with Palace in the Premier League, before moving to Aston Villa, then of the EFL Championship, ahead of the 2016/17 season. Fast forward to the 2018/19 season where he did help the Villans to promotion back to the Premier League, and he was part of the team that beat Derby County 2 – 1 in the 2019 EFL Championship Play-Off Final.

After his retirement from playing, Jedinak was a Academy Coach and then the Loan Development Coach with Aston Villa, from 2020 to when he decided to join Ange Postecoglou at Spurs in June 2023.

Moving on to Nick Montgomery, he had a playing career spanning 18 years. He began with Sheffield United, spending 12 years there, whilst making no less than 349 appearances with 9 goals to boot. In 2012, he had a loan spell with Millwall before permanently ending his time with the Blades in 2012, signing for Central Coast Mariners in the A League.

During his time at the club, he made a total of 113 appearances between 2012 and 2017, scoring 3 goals and whilst being part of the team that won the A League Championship in the 2012/13 season. He then left to play for fellow Australian Football Club Wollongong Wolves in the 2017/18 season, making 30 appearances and scoring 3 goals before announcing his retirement from playing shortly after that season had concluded.

After initially being the Assistant Coach, Montgomery became the Central Coast Mariners Head Coach back in July 2021, leading them to the A League Championship title in 2023. He was then appointed as Hibernian’s Head Coach in September 2023, departing the club on 14th May 2024 before joining Ange Postecoglou’s Senior Coaching Staff at Spurs.

Finally, Sergio Raimundo was an Academy Coach at Central Coast Mariners from May 2019 to August 2021, before being appointed as the club’s Assistant Head Coach in August 2021, being part of the coaching staff that won the A League title in the 2022/23 season. He was then Assistant Manager at Hibernian alongside Nick Montgomery between September 2023 and May 2024 before then joining Spurs in July 2024.

Rob Burch is Tottenham Hotspur’s current Goalkeeping Coach for the club’s First Team, a post that he has had since he joined the club back on 27th June 2023. Before moving into coaching, Burch had a 10 year playing career with Spurs (2002 – 2007), Sheffield Wednesday (2007 – 2008), Lincoln City (2008 – 2010) and with Notts County (2010 – 2012). He made the most appearances in his career for Lincoln City with 92 appearances.

He did also have loan spells during his playing career with the likes of Woking (2003), Stevenage Borough (2004 & 2005), West Ham United (2004 – 2005), Bristol City (2005) & Barnet (2007). He did suffer from a number of injuries during his playing career.

Rob Burch’s coaching career began with Fulham on 21st June 2019 as the Cottagers’ Goalkeeping Coach before going on to take up the same position with Tottenham Hotspur in June 2023.