Gianfranco Zola OBE (born 5 July 1966) is an Italian former football player, who is now the manager of West Ham United.

As a footballer he played for Napoli, Parma, Chelsea and Cagliari He was renowned for his technique, skill and dribbling. In total, he played in 632 league games and scored 184 goals in his career. He became manager of West Ham on 11 September 2008, replacing Alan Curbishley, after he stopped working as Italy Under-21's manager.

Gianfranco Zola

Club career statistics

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|1984/85||rowspan="2"|Nuorese||Serie C2||4||0

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|1985/86||||27||10

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|1986/87||rowspan="3"|Sassari Torres||Serie C2||30||8

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|1987/88||rowspan="2"|Serie C1||24||2

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|1988/89||34||11

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|1989/90||rowspan="4"|Napoli||rowspan="4"|Serie A||18||2

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|1990/91||20||6

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|1991/92||34||12

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|1992/93||33||12

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|1993/94||rowspan="4"|Parma||rowspan="4"|Serie A||33||18

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|1994/95||32||19

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|1995/96||29||10

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|1996/97||8||2

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|1996/97||rowspan="7"|Chelsea||rowspan="7"|Premier League||23||8

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|1997/98||27||8

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|1998/99||37||13

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|1999/00||33||4

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|2000/01||36||9

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|2001/02||35||3

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|2002/03||38||14

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|2003/04||rowspan="2"|Cagliari||Serie B||43||13

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|2004/05||Serie A||31||9

403||125

229||59

632||184

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International career statistics

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|1991||2||0

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|1992||1||0

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|1993||1||0

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|1994||6||0

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|1995||8||6

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|1996||8||0

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|1997||9||3

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!Total||35||9

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References

1966 births

Living people

1994 FIFA World Cup players

Chelsea F.C. players

Footballers from Sardinia

Italian football managers

Gianfranco Zola