Wil Boessen

Wil Boessen
Personal information
Date of birth (1964-05-03) 3 May 1964 (age 62)
Place of birth Sittard, Netherlands
Team information
Current team
 Fortuna Sittard (assistant manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1983–1990 Fortuna Sittard 184 (10)
1990–1991 SVV 28 (0)
1991–1992 Dordrecht '90 43 (1)
1993 De Graafschap 9 (0)
1993–1996 Fortuna Sittard 86 (2)
1997–1999 Helmond Sport 47 (2)
Total 397 (15)
International career
1984-1986 Netherlands U-21 9 (0)
1986-1987 Netherlands U-23 3 (0)
Managerial career
2010–2012 VVV-Venlo (assistant)
2011 VVV-Venlo (caretaker)
2011–2012 VVV-Venlo (caretaker)
2012–2014 Fortuna Sittard
2014–2015 FC Oss
2015 Chiangmai
2016 Lampang
2017–2019 FC Den Bosch
2019–2022 Helmond Sport
2022–2023 Jong PSV (assistant)
2023–2024 Jong PSV
2024– Fortuna Sittard (assistant)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Wil Boessen (born 3 May 1964) is a Dutch football manager and a former player who is an assistant manager of Fortuna Sittard.

Playing career

Club

Born in Sittard, Boessen played a large part of his career for local side Fortuna Sittard. He moved to SVV in 1990 and experienced their merger with Dordrecht '90 a year later. He also had spells at De Graafschap and Helmond Sport.

International

Boessen played 9 games for the Netherlands national under-21 football team and another 3 for the Olympic team.

Managerial career

After retiring as a player, Boessen became assistant at VVV-Venlo and took temporarily charge twice during 10 seasons at the club just to be appointed by Fortuna in 2012. He moved to FC Oss in 2014.

He was manager of Lampang in the Thai Division 1 League and became manager of FC Den Bosch in summer 2017.

On 4 June 2019, he was appointed manager of Helmond Sport. Boessen was dismissed by Helmond Sport on 14 February 2022.

Before the 2022–23 season, Boessen was hired by Jong PSV as an assistant coach to Adil Ramzi.

After Ramzi left PSV, Boessen was appointed head coach of Jong PSV on 4 August 2023.

References

  1. ↑ "Wo 05 juni '24 - Wil Boessen". Fortuna Sittard (in Dutch). Retrieved 26 April 2026.
  2. ↑ "Willy Boessen". OnsOranje (Dutch FA) (in Dutch). Retrieved 26 April 2026.
  3. ↑ Boessen trainer Fortuna Sittard - Eindhovens Dagblad (in Dutch)
  4. ↑ FC Oss stelt trainer Boessen aan - NOS (in Dutch)
  5. ↑ "Netherlands - W. Boessen - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Archived from the original on 11 February 2013.
  6. ↑ Boessen na Thaise avonturen aan de slag bij Den Bosch - Voetbal International (in Dutch)
  7. ↑ WIL BOESSEN NIEUWE HOOFDTRAINER HELMOND SPORT, helmondsport.nl, 4 June 2019
  8. ↑ "Sven Swinnen vervangt Wil Boessen als hoofdtrainer Helmond Sport" [Sven Swinnen replaces Wil Boessen as head coach of Helmond Sport] (in Dutch). Helmond Sport. 14 February 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  9. ↑ "NIEUWE GEZICHTEN IN STAF PSV ACADEMY" [NEW FACES IN PSV ACADEMY STAFF] (in Dutch). PSV Eindhoven. 22 June 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  10. ↑ "WIL BOESSEN APPOINTED AS PSV U21 HEAD COACH". PSV Eindhoven. 4 August 2023. Archived from the original on 5 August 2023. Retrieved 9 August 2023.