Nicky Hayen
Personal information
Full name Nicky Hayen
Date of birth (1980-08-16) 16 August 1980
Place of birth Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Team information
Current team
 Club NXT (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2008 Sint-Truiden 243 (4)
2008–2010 RBC Roosendaal 62 (5)
2010–2013 Oud-Heverlee Leuven 40 (3)
2012–2013 → Antwerp (loan) 0 (0)
2013–2014 Dender 0 (0)
Managerial career
2013–2014 Dender (player-coach)
2014 Zwarte Leeuw
2014 Najran (assistant)
2015–2016 KVK Tienen
2016–2017 ASV Geel
2017–2018 Berchem Sport
2018–2019 Sint-Truiden (U18)
2019 Sint-Truiden (caretaker)
2020 Sint-Truiden (assistant)
2020–2021 Waasland-Beveren
2021–2022 Haverfordwest County
2022–2023 Club NXT
2023 Club Brugge (assistant)
2023– Club NXT
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nicky Hayen (born 16 August 1980) is a Belgian football manager and former professional footballer who is currently head coach at Challenger Pro League club Club NXT.

Career

From 1999 on, Hayen played nine seasons at the highest level of Belgian professional football with Sint-Truiden, before moving to RBC Roosendaal in the second division in the Netherlands for two seasons. He returned to Belgium in 2010 by joining Oud-Heverlee Leuven and was part of the team achieving promotion to the Belgian Pro League. In the summer of 2012, he was loaned out for one season to Antwerp, but when the season ended he was released and became player-coach at Dender EH in the Belgian Third Division. In February 2014, he was relieved of his coaching duties at Dender EH due to bad result, but stayed with the team as player.

On 31 December 2021, Hayen was announced as manager of Cymru Premier club Haverfordwest County on an initial 18-month contract.[1] This was duly extended for a further 12 months upon confirmation of safety towards the end of the 2021-2022 season, after an excellent run of form. Hayen was the first Belgian manager to work in the Cymru Premier.[2] He left the club in June 2022 to return to Belgium to take up a position as manager of Club Brugge's under-23 team, Club NXT.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Jones, Harrison (31 January 2021). "Haverfordwest make surprise appointment as Nicky Hayen named manager". T Clwb Pel Droed. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  2. ↑ Jamshidian, Harry. "Nicky Hayen takes charge at Haverfordwest County AFC". Western Telegraph. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  3. ↑ Jones, Jordan (15 June 2022). "Haverfordwest County dealt blow as manager Nicky Hayen departs for Club Brugge". Y Clwb Pel-Droed. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  4. ↑ "NICKY HAYEN IS THE NEW HEAD COACH OF CLUB NXT". clubbrugge.be. 15 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.


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