Felice Mazzù

Lower division beginnings

A youth team coach for RCS Nivellois during his playing days in lower-league and amateur football in the 1990s, Mazzù first came to attention while T2 (assistant coach) at Tubize during the 2008–09 season, working under Albert Cartier, whom Mazzù succeeded the following season. After one year in change at Tubize, Mazzù was recruited by Brussels club White Star Woluwe in the summer of 2010, and immediately guided White Star from Division 3 to promotion to the Second Division (now Challenger Pro League) in his very first season in charge, in tandem to also guiding them to quarter-finals of the 2010-11 Belgian Cup. During the 2012–2013 season, the club won the first phase of the Second Division championship, guaranteeing them a place in the "final round", playing-off for promotion to the top division in Belgium, the Pro League. Despite a good start to the season, White Star Woluwe faced severe financial difficulties and was placed into liquidation in April 2013. It was only thanks to the unexpected intervention of a group of investors from Dubai that the club earned a temporary reprieve to contest the final play-offs, but without Mazzù, who left the club. During that season, Mazzù had attracted the interest of Standard Liege to succeed Dutch coach Ron Jans in October 2012, but Standard's overtures were rejected, as they would be again two years later.

Charleroi

Instead, Mazzù was appointed Charleroi coach in 2013 after his five years…

Mazzù was born in Charleroi to an Italian father from Calabria. His brother, Antonino Mazzù, is a Professor of Philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Sister Pasqualina works in biopharmacy and led a team that produced vaccines during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis.

White Star Woluwe

Belgian Third Division: 2010–11 Genk

Belgian Super Cup: 2019 Union SG

Belgian First Division A: 2021–22 runners-up Belgian First Division B: 2020–21 Individual

Belgian Professional Manager of the Season: 2021–22 Belgian Golden Shoe: Best Coach of the Calendar Year: 2017, 2021 Raymond Goethals Award: 2017, 2021 Guy Thys Award: 2021-22