Tom Saintfiet

Saintfiet has coached in several countries, including Belgium, Qatar, Germany, Faroe Islands, Finland, Jordan and the Netherlands. He has also worked in Africa, having been the head coach of the national teams of Namibia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Malawi and Togo, among others. Saintfiet was manager of Finnish Premier League club RoPS Rovaniemi. In 2002, he coached Faroese team B71 and finished second in the Faroe Islands First Division. He then became coach at Al-Ittihad Sports Club in Qatar (now called Al-Gharafa Sports Club). In 2004, he coached the Qatar national under-17 football team to third place in the AFC U-17 Championship, qualifying for the FIFA U-17 World Cup in the process. Prior to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Saintfiet was one of the candidates to lead the Nigerian national team for the World Cup campaign in South Africa. He would be named as the team's technical director in 2012 and became a candidate for the head coach position again in 2016.

Namibia

Saintfiet started off successfully with Namibia by beating Comoros and Malawi and playing a draw against Lesotho in the COSAFA Senior Challenge Cup in South Africa in July 2008. Namibia were eliminated in the quarter-final at the hands of eventual champion and host South Africa. Saintfiet's achievements with Namibia include defeating Zimbabwe 4–2 in a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier and DR Congo 4–0 in a friendly. Three days after a 1–1 away draw against Lebanon in April 2009, Namibia once again got an impressive…

Mali

Qualified for AFCON (Africa Cup of Nations) 2025, as first in the Qualification Group I Gambia

Qualified for AFCON (Africa Cup of Nations) 2021, first appearance of Gambia in the most important Tournament of the continent Reached Quarter finals in AFCON (Africa Cup of Nations) 2021 Qualified for AFCON (Africa Cup of Nations) 2023 KV Turnhout

Qualified for the promotion play-offs: 2014 Young Africans

CECAFA Club Cup/Kagame Interclub Cup: 2012 Qatar U17

AFC U-17 Championship third place: 2004 Qualification for the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship B71 Sandur

Faroe Islands First Division Vice Champion: 2002 Individual

Top 5 best coaches of the year in the African continent, voted by CAF - Confédération Africaine de Football: 2023 Second Runner-up for coach of the year in Belgium, voted by The Royal Belgian Football Association: 2022 Top 5 best coaches of the year of the African continent, voted by CAF - Confédération Africaine de Football: 2022 Namibia Sport Commission Sports Awards Coach of the Year runner-up: 2009 Most Famous Sport Celebrity (Informanté): 2008 The Namibian Coach of the Year: 2008