Aitor Karanka de la Hoz (
Basque and ; born 18 September 1973) is a Spanish
football
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manager and former player who was most recently the head coach of
Segunda División
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club
Granada
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.
Save for a brief spell in the United States at age 32, Karanka played solely in Spain for
Athletic Bilbao
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and
Real Madrid
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (, meaning ''Royal Madrid Football Club''), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
, appearing in 275
La Liga
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known simply as Primera División in Spain, and as La Liga in English-speaking countries and officially as LaLiga Santander for sponsorship reasons, stylized as LaLiga, is the men's ...
matches over 13 seasons and winning six honours with the latter.
Karanka started his managerial career in the late 2000s, working as assistant manager at Real Madrid during
José Mourinho
José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix GOIH (; born 26 January 1963), is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who is the current head coach of Italian Serie A club Roma. Once dubbed "The Special One" by the British ...
's tenure as manager from 2010 to 2013. He was appointed manager of
EFL Championship
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club
Middlesbrough
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Until the early 1800s, the a ...
in 2013, guiding them to promotion to the
Premier League
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in 2016 before being dismissed the following year. He became
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest Football Club is an association football club based in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England. Nottingham Forest was founded in 1865 and have been playing their home games at the City Ground, on the banks of the River Tren ...
manager in January 2018, leaving the role just over a year later in 2019. He was appointed as head coach of another Championship club,
Birmingham City
Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. Since 2011, the first te ...
, in July 2020 and stepped down in March 2021.
Playing career
Club
Athletic / Real Madrid
Born in
Vitoria-Gasteiz
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,
Álava
Álava ( in Spanish) or Araba (), officially Araba/Álava, is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lordship of Álava, former medieval Catholic bishopric and now Latin titular see.
Its ca ...
, Karanka played as a youth with hometown club
Deportivo Alavés
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and
finished his formation with
Basque
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* Basque language, their language
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* Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France
* Basque Country (autonomous co ...
neighbours
Athletic Bilbao
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. He made his senior debut with
the reserves of the latter in 1992, competing in the
Segunda División
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.
Karanka was promoted to the main squad by
Jupp Heynckes
Josef "Jupp" Heynckes (; born 9 May 1945) is a German retired professional footballer and manager. The majority of his player career was as a striker for Borussia Mönchengladbach in its golden era of the 1960s and '70s, when they won many nati ...
in 1993 following the departure of
Rafael Alkorta
Rafael Alkorta Martínez (born 16 September 1968) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played mainly as a central defender. He is the current sporting director of Athletic Bilbao.
Having represented Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid ...
. He made his
La Liga
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debut on 7 November in a 1–1 away draw against
Celta de Vigo
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(90 minutes played), going on to feature in exactly 100 league matches in his three full seasons before joining the German
coach
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* Co ...
at
Real Madrid
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Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
in 1997 (replacing Alkorta, who had just rejoined Athletic Bilbao).
Karanka was used mostly as a backup with the
capital
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-based team but appeared in 33
UEFA Champions League
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matches for them, including the
final
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of the
1999–2000 edition against
Valencia CF
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(3–0 win). He missed the vast majority of the
1998–99 campaign due to a heart condition.
Athletic return / United States
![Karanka](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Karanka.jpg)
For
2002–03, Karanka returned to Athletic Bilbao on a three-year contract with a €40 million buyout clause. He helped the ''Lions''
qualify
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for the
UEFA Cup
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in
his second year after finishing in fifth place in the league.
In 2006, Karanka joined
Major League Soccer
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(MLS) club
Colorado Rapids
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in the United States. In
his only season in MLS, he helped Colorado to the
Western Conference play-off final, despite having his attempt saved by
Darío Sala
Darío Sala (born October 17, 1974) is an Argentine association football administrator and former player. A goalkeeper, he played with teams including Belgrano, Los Andes, and River Plate in Argentina; Deportivo Cali in Colombia; and FC Dallas ...
in the
penalty shootout
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victory over
FC Dallas
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in the semi-finals.
International
Karanka only played once for
Spain
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, i ...
at senior level, on 26 April 1995 against
Armenia
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in
Yerevan
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(2–0 win) for the
UEFA Euro 1996
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qualifiers. He made 14 appearances for the
under-21s and was a member of the team that finished runners-up at the
1996 European Championship in a final lost to
Italy
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.
Karanka also represented
the nation
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in the
1996 Summer Olympics
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in
Atlanta
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, playing in four matches in an eventual
quarter-final exit.
Coaching career
Karanka's first role in management was with the
Spanish under-16s national team.
In June 2010, Karanka was appointed assistant manager at former side Real Madrid by newly appointed manager
José Mourinho
José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix GOIH (; born 26 January 1963), is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who is the current head coach of Italian Serie A club Roma. Once dubbed "The Special One" by the British ...
. Three years later, he left the club following the arrival of
Carlo Ancelotti
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, who brought his own coaching staff.
Middlesbrough
On 13 November 2013, Karanka was appointed manager of
Championship
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club
Middlesbrough
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Until the early 1800s, the a ...
, replacing
Tony Mowbray
Anthony Mark Mowbray (born 22 November 1963) is an English former professional footballer who is currently the manager of Sunderland. Mowbray played for Middlesbrough, Celtic and Ipswich Town as a defender.
He began his coaching career with Ip ...
. His first match in charge ended in a 1–2 away defeat against
Leeds United
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, ten days later.
On 25 April 2015, in the club's penultimate game of
the season away to
Fulham
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, Karanka sent goalkeeper
Dimitrios Konstantopoulos
Dimitrios Konstantopoulos ( el, Δημήτριος Κωνσταντόπουλος; born 29 November 1978) is a Greek former international football player who played as a goalkeeper.
After playing amateur football with Iraklis Ampelokipi, Kons ...
forward for an added-time corner kick with the score 3–3. With the goalkeeper out of position, the opponents scored a winner through
Ross McCormack
Ross McCormack (born 18 August 1986) is a Scottish professional footballer who most recently played as a striker for Aldershot Town.
McCormack started his career with Scottish Premier League club Rangers in 2002, where he made few appearance ...
, which sent
Watford
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Initially a small market town, the Grand Junction Canal encouraged the construction of paper-making mills, print works, a ...
into the
Premier League
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and jeopardised Middlesbrough's own chances of promotion. He did qualify his team to
the play-off final after a 5–1 aggregate win over
Brentford
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Its economy has diverse company headquarters buildings whi ...
, but they lost the decisive match 0–2 to
Norwich City
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at
Wembley Stadium
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.
On 7 August 2015, Karanka signed a new four-year contract. Boro were consistently in high positions during
the campaign, but on 11 March 2016 he unexpectedly left the training ground after an argument and considered his future at the club. Responsibilities for the subsequent match, at
Charlton Athletic
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, were handed to his assistant
Steve Agnew
Stephen Mark Agnew (born 9 November 1965) is an English football coach and former professional footballer, he is interim assistant manager of Scottish Premiership side Aberdeen.
As a player, he was a midfielder from 1983 to 2002, notably in t ...
, but the Spaniard returned to lead the team to the top division after a seven-year absence, as league runners-up.
In
2016–17, Karanka led Middlesbrough to
the last eight of the
FA Cup
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, where they were eliminated by
Manchester City
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. He was sacked on 16 March 2017 with the team three points from top-flight safety and without a league win in the new year (while their defence was the fifth best in the division, their attack was the worst with just 19 goals from 27 matches, and he had disagreements with players, fans and the board). Club and manager parted ways by mutual consent, as the latter believed he could take the team no further.
Nottingham Forest
On 8 January 2018, Karanka returned to the Championship after being appointed as manager of
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest Football Club is an association football club based in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England. Nottingham Forest was founded in 1865 and have been playing their home games at the City Ground, on the banks of the River Tren ...
.
He replaced
Gary Brazil
Gary Nicholas Brazil (born 19 September 1962) is an English former professional footballer and football manager, who is now academy manager at Nottingham Forest. He scored 160 goals in 658 league and cup games in an 18-year professional career.
...
, who had been acting as
caretaker manager
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following the dismissal of
Mark Warburton
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As a player, Warburton was a right back at non-League level with Enfield and Boreham Wood. He beg ...
on 31 December 2017, who had in turn left the side sitting 14th in the league. His first match in charge saw Forest suffer a 1–0 defeat to
Aston Villa
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, just days after his appointment. Karanka met his former club Middlesbrough for the first time on 7 April, where Forest were defeated 2–0.
During his first summer transfer window in charge, prior to his first full season as manager, Forest signed
João Carvalho
João António Antunes Carvalho (born 9 March 1997) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Estoril on loan from Olympiacos.
Club career Benfica
Born in Castanheira de Pera, Leiria District, Carvalho jo ...
from
Benfica for £13.2 million, the club's most expensive transfer acquisition.
Forest began the season very well, which originally saw them establish a five-match undefeated run. They continued their positive form up until December, where they only won one out of six matches during the final month of the year, which would ultimately cost Karanka his position. On 11 January 2019, he departed the
City Ground
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The stadium was a venue when E ...
after requesting to be released from his contract. He left the team in seventh position, four points behind the play-off places. A key reason behind Karanka's departure was the breakdown in relationship between him and Forest's Chief Executive, Ioannis Vrentzos. Forest's ambitious board were dissatisfied with Forest's play-off challenge and felt that the club should have been challenging for the automatic promotion places.
Birmingham City
On 31 July 2020, after 18 months away from management, Karanka was appointed head coach of EFL Championship club
Birmingham City
Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. Since 2011, the first te ...
on a three-year contract.
On 16 March 2021, the club confirmed that he had stepped down from his role after a run of just three wins in 19 matches left the team just outside the relegation zone. Former
Charlton Athletic
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manager
Lee Bowyer
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As a player, he was a midfielder who featured for Charlton Athletic, Leeds United, West Ham United (two spells), Newcastle United, Birmingha ...
was announced as his successor shortly afterwards.
AK Coaches' World
In May 2021, Karanka organised an online coaching conference in association with the
Royal Spanish Football Federation
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, under the name AK Coaches' World. The event focused on women's football, and participants included
Ronaldo Nazário
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,
Julen Lopetegui
Julen Lopetegui Agote (; born 28 August 1966) is a Spanish former professional footballer, currently manager of Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers.
A goalkeeper, he played 149 La Liga matches over nine seasons, representing Real Madrid ...
,
Monchi
Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo (born 20 September 1968), commonly known as Monchi, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper, currently director of football of Sevilla FC.
Playing career
Born in San Fernando, Cádiz, Andalusia, Mo ...
,
Iraia Iturregi
Iraia Iturregi Sustatxa (born 24 April 1985) is a Spanish football midfielder who played for Athletic Bilbao of Spain's Primera División for most of her career. She currently acts as head coach of women's team Athletic Bilbao B.
Career
Despit ...
,
Jorge Vilda
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and
Mila Martínez
Milagros "Mila" Martínez Domínguez (born 23 April 1985) is a Spanish football manager.
Early life
Born in Cuenca, Spain, Martínez lived in her family's village, Fuentelespino de Haro, until she turned 18. Later, she played as a defender for ...
.
Granada
Following a 4–1 defeat at home to
Levante on 17 April 2022,
Granada
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dismissed interim head coach
Rubén Torrecilla and appointed Karanka as his replacement, tasked with using the remaining six matches to avoid relegation from La Liga. He made his debut on 20 April, securing a goalless draw at reigning champions
Atlético Madrid
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, and won two of the remaining fixtures, but a final-day draw against
Espanyol
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was not enough to secure safety.
Karanka was confirmed as the club's head coach for the coming season, but was sacked on 8 November 2022, after one win in five matches.
Personal life
Karanka's younger brother,
David
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, is also a former footballer. A
striker, he also appeared for Athletic Bilbao's first team but with much less impact, going on to spend the vast majority of his professional career in the second level or the lower leagues.
Career statistics
Club
International
Managerial
Honours
Player
Real Madrid
*
La Liga
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:
2000–01
*
Supercopa de España
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:
1997
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,
2001
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[
*]UEFA Champions League
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: 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2001–02
Spain U21
*UEFA European Under-21 Championship
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runner-up: 1996
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; third place: 1994
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Manager
Middlesbrough
*Football League Championship
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runner-up (promotion): 2015–16
Individual
*Football League Championship Manager of the Month
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: January 2015, September 2015, December 2015
References
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1973 births
Living people
Footballers from Vitoria-Gasteiz
Spanish footballers
Association football defenders
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Deportivo Alavés players
Bilbao Athletic footballers
Athletic Bilbao footballers
Real Madrid CF players
Major League Soccer players
Colorado Rapids players
UEFA Champions League winning players
Spain under-21 international footballers
Spain under-23 international footballers
Spain international footballers
Olympic footballers of Spain
Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Basque Country international footballers
Spanish expatriate footballers
Expatriate soccer players in the United States
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Spanish football managers
Premier League managers
English Football League managers
La Liga managers
Middlesbrough F.C. managers
Nottingham Forest F.C. managers
Birmingham City F.C. managers
Granada CF managers
Spanish expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in England
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in England