of the season. Standard Liège He signed to Standard Liège on 29 May 2012, but agreed with the club to end his contract on 22 October after Standard was at that time 12th in the Belgian Pro League. PEC Zwolle Jans joined PEC Zwolle in 2013. In his first season, he won the KNVB Cup after beating AFC Ajax 5–1 in the final. In the 2014–15 season he led PEC Zwolle to the cup final once again and also winning the Johan Cruijff Schaal. FC Cincinnati On 26 July 2019, The Athletic reported that Jans had been hired as the head coach of American club FC Cincinnati, and would replace interim coach Yoann Damet as soon as he obtained a work visa. FC Cincinnati officially announced the hiring on 5 August 2019, ending a months-long coach search that began with their firing of Alan Koch in May 2019. This was Jans' second time working with FC Cincinnati general manager Gerard Nijkamp, who had hired Jans in 2013 when he was technical director of PEC Zwolle. Jans' contract was set to expire on 31 December 2020, with Nijkamp having previously indicated that their coach hire would be a "short-term solution" to be re-evaluated ahead of the 2021 season. On 17 February 2020 Jans resigned from his head coach position at FC Cincinnati amidst an investigation into his alleged use of a racial slur. FC Twente Jans is currently manager of FC Twente. Managerial statistics Honours Manager PEC Zwolle KNVB Cup: 2013–14 Johan Cruyff Shield: 2014 References External links Profile 1958 births Living people Sportspeople from Zwolle Association football forwards Dutch footballers Dutch expatriate footballers Dutch football managers Dutch expatriate football managers Dutch schoolteachers PEC Zwolle players FC Groningen players Roda JC Kerkrade players SC Veendam players Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players Sanfrecce Hiroshima players Japan Soccer League players Expatriate footballers in Japan Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Japan Eredivisie managers FC Groningen managers Standard Liège managers Footballers from Overijssel