Clayton Zane (born 12 July 1977) is an Australian association football coach and former player, who played as a striker.
Zane in 2012
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Clayton Zane | ||
| Date of birth | (1977-07-12) 12 July 1977 (age 47) | ||
| Place of birth | Newcastle, Australia | ||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1985–1993 | Cessnock City Hornets | ||
| 1993–1995 | Adamstown Rosebud | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995–1998 | Newcastle Breakers | 70 | (17) |
| 1995–2000 | Northern Spirit | 57 | (6) |
| 2000 | Molde | 14 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | Lillestrøm | 29 | (18) |
| 2002–2005 | Anderlecht | 10 | (2) |
| Total | 163 | (43) | |
| International career | |||
| 1996–1997 | Australia U20 | 3 | (3) |
| 1998–2000 | Australia U23 | 15 | (9) |
| 2000–2001 | Australia | 14 | (6) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2011–2012 | Newcastle Jets (W-League) | ||
| 2012–2014 | Newcastle Jets Youth | ||
| 2014 | Newcastle Jets | ||
| 2014–15 | Newcastle Jets (assistant) | ||
| 2016–19 | Newcastle Jets (assistant) | ||
| 2020- | New Lambton FC (Technical Director) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
In the 2001 season, he was the top scorer and awarded the Kniksen award as Striker of the Year in Norway. He earned 14 caps for the Australia national team, scoring six goals. His last club as a player was R.S.C. Anderlecht, where a two-year-long injury prematurely ended his career in late 2005.
Following his retirement from playing Zane worked as a coach at Newcastle Jets, serving as a head coach in 2014.
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Zane was first brought to Europe as a relative unknown by Norwegian team Molde. After scoring no goals in 14 matches he was sold to Lillestrøm. In his first season in Lillestrøm he ended top scorer of the Norwegian Premier League with 17 goals and he was voted Norwegian Player of the Year some weeks later. He was then sold to Belgian club R.S.C. Anderlecht in 2002 where he scored twice in ten games.
Zane represented the Australia national team at the 2001 Confederations Cup and is best remembered for scoring the only goal when Australia defeated subsequent champion France in the group stage. He scored a hat-trick for Australia against Cook Islands in June 2000. Zane was a member of the Australian squad at the 2000 Summer OlympicsinSydney.[1][2]
On 9 August 2011, it was announced that Zane had signed a contract to be the coach of the Newcastle Jets W-League team.
On 8 June 2012, he was announced as the youth team coach of the Newcastle United Jets Youth Squad.
In January 2014 Newcastle Jets head coach Gary van Egmond was sacked due to poor results and Zane was appointed interim head coach until the end of the season.[3] The club chose to appoint Phil Stubbins as head coach of the club for the following season and returned Zane to the position of 1st team assistant coach.
Zane, along with goalkeeping coach Neil Young and strength & conditioning coach Andrew Packer were sacked as part of a club cleanout of players and staff.[4]
On 7 September 2016, Zane became the caretaker coach of the Newcastle Jets after the termination of Scott Miller.[5] Zane is regarded as well liked by the playing group and has a "Calming presence".[6]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2000 | 9 | 5 |
| 2001 | 5 | 1 | |
| Total | 14 | 6 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 June 2000 | Stade Pater, Papeete, Tahiti |  Cook Islands |
15–0 | 17–0 | 2000 OFC Nations Cup |
| 2 | 16–0 | |||||
| 3 | 17–0 | |||||
| 4 | 23 June 2000 | Stade Pater, Papeete, Tahiti |  Solomon Islands |
2–0 | 6–0 | 2000 OFC Nations Cup |
| 5 | 3–0 | |||||
| 6 | 1 June 2001 | Daegu Stadium, Daegu, South Korea |  France |
1–0 | 1–0 | 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup |
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | ||||
| Newcastle Jets FC W-League | 
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August 2011 | June 2012 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 040.00 |
| Newcastle Jets FC Youth |
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June 2012 | January 2014 | 48 | 20 | 7 | 21 | 041.67 |
| Newcastle Jets |
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20 January 2014 | 5 May 2014 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 041.67 |
| Newcastle Jets FC Youth |
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11 September 2015 | 1 October 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | !— |
| Total | 70 | 29 | 9 | 32 | 041.43 | |||
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