Nils Nielsen - Football Coach

Nils Herbert Kromann Nielsen (born 3 November 1971) is a Danish football manager who is the currently manager of the Japan women. He has served as director of football for Manchester City W.F.C. since 4 May 2023. He is the first person appointed to the role. Nielsen is best known for his tenure with the Denmark women's national football team from 2013 to 2017. He led the Danes to a runners-up finish at the UEFA Women's Euro 2017. Despite departing the team shortly after, Nielsen received acclaim for his work and finished runner-up in the 2017 The Best FIFA Women's Coach award. He spent most of 2018 as the assistant manager of the China women's national under-20 football team, taking them to the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. He was also manager of the Switzerland women's national football team from 2018 to 2022. In 12 of December of 2024, Nielsen was appointed as the new coach of the Japan women's national football team. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article

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Denmark	13/17
Qualif WWC 15	10
Algarve Cup 14	4
Friendlies 15	1
Algarve Cup 15	4
Algarve Cup 17	4
Qualif WWC 19	3
Euro 17	6

Switzerland	18/22
Algarve Cup 19	3
Wom Euro Qual 21	10
Friendlies 21	2
Qualif WWC 23	11
Friendlies 22	4
Euro 22	3

Nielsen, N last games

Switzerland

11-Nov-22 home Denmark 1-2 in Friendlies

11-Oct-22 home Wales 2-1 in Qualif WWC

06-Sep-22 home Moldova 15-0 in Qualif WWC

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