László Bölöni
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Bölöni with PAOK in 2011 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ladislau Iosif Bölöni | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 11 March 1953 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Târgu Mureș, Romania | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| –1968 | Chimica Târnăveni | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1968–1970 | Chimica Târnăveni | 38 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1970–1984 | ASA Târgu Mureș | 406 | (64) | |||||||||||
| 1984–1987 | Steaua București | 97 | (24) | |||||||||||
| 1988 | Racing Jet Wavre | 32 | (3) | |||||||||||
| 1989 | Créteil | 11 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 1989–1992 | Orléans | 77 | (4) | |||||||||||
| Total | 661 | (97) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1972–1975 | Romania U21 | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1975–1976 | Romania Olympic | 12 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 1975–1988 | Romania | 102 | (23) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1994–2000 | Nancy | |||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Romania | |||||||||||||
| 2001–2003 | Sporting CP | |||||||||||||
| 2003–2006 | Rennes | |||||||||||||
| 2006 | Monaco | |||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Al Jazira | |||||||||||||
| 2008–2010 | Standard Liège | |||||||||||||
| 2010 | Al Wahda | |||||||||||||
| 2011 | Lens | |||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | PAOK | |||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Al Khor | |||||||||||||
| 2015 | Al Ittihad | |||||||||||||
| 2017–2020 | Antwerp | |||||||||||||
| 2020 | Gent | |||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Panathinaikos | |||||||||||||
| 2022–2024 | Metz | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Ladislau "Loți" Iosif Bölöni (Hungarian: László József Bölöni; born 11 March 1953) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player.
After starting out at ASA Târgu Mureș, Bölöni became an integral part of the Steaua București team that won the European Cup in 1986, making it the only Romanian team—and one of two Eastern European sides—to have achieved the honour. He was twice named Romanian Footballer of the Year and took part in 484 Divizia A games, the fourth-most appearances in the history of the competition. Internationally, Bölöni earned 102 caps with the national team, which ranks him fifth in the nation's all-time list, and scored 23 goals, the sixth highest all-time mark. He is thus considered one of the best Romanian footballers in history.
Following his retirement as a player, he went on to coach clubs in France, Portugal, the Arabian Peninsula, Belgium and Greece. Bölöni was also at the helm of the Romania national team between 2000 and 2001. In terms of trophies won, his most successful stints were at Sporting CP and Standard Liège, with three domestic honours each.