joseph anthonius john van den brom (born 4 october 1966) is a dutch former professional footballer and the current manager of ekstraklasa side lech poznań.as a player, he played for vitesse, ajax, de graafschap and istanbulspor.after his playing career, van den brom became a manager.he worked as a head coach for agovv apeldoorn (2007–2010), ado den haag (2010–2011), vitesse (2011–2012) and anderlecht (2012–2014).after managing az for five years, he moved to take charge of fc utrecht from the 2019–20 season.after seven seasons with vitesse, playing 225 games and scoring 80 goals, he made the move to dutch giants ajax, where he played for two seasons before moving abroad with turkish side istanbulspor.he returned to vitesse after one season, and spent another five seasons there before signing for de graafschap for his final season, retiring from playing in 2003.he played in the 8–0 win against malta and the 6–0 win against san marino.he scored one goal.from 2007 to 2010 he served as head coach of small eerste divisie club agovv apeldoorn with impressive results, also winning a place in the promotion playoffs in his last season in charge.in may 2010 he was presented as new head coach of eredivisie club ado den haag, with whom he qualified for the 2011–12 europa league.in june 2011, van den brom was named as head coach of his old club vitesse.again, he managed to qualify for the europa league.he signed with belgian side anderlecht on 29 may 2012 as head coach.he was sacked on 10 march 2014.on 27 september 2014, it was announced that van den brom had signed a deal with az to succeed marco van basten as the new manager.after managing az for five years, he moved to take charge of fc utrecht from the 2019–20 season.in november 2020 van den brom was announced as the new manager of belgian first division a side genk following jess thorup's departure.he was sacked by genk on 6 december 2021.on 31 march 2022, van den brom was announced as the manager of saudi professional league club al-taawoun.on 19 june 2022, he was announced as the manager of defending polish ekstraklasa champions lech poznań, replacing maciej skorża who left the team due to personal reasons.he had a tumultous start to his tenure, as lech remained winless in the first four league games and crashed out of the uefa champions league first qualifying round after losing to azerbaijani side qarabağ 2–5 on aggregate.however, lech rebounded, and van den brom led the team to a successful uefa europa conference league campaign, reaching second place in the group stage which included villarreal, austria wien and hapoel be'er sheva, eliminating bodø/glimt and djurgårdens if in the knockout stages, before losing in the quarter-finals to fiorentina, 4–6 on aggregate.
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