Edward Still

Edward Still

Personal information
Full name	Edward Still
Date of birth	(1990-12-30) 30 December 1990
Place of birth	Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium
Managerial career
Years	Team
2021–2022	Charleroi
2022–2023	Eupen
2023	Kortrijk

Edward Still (born 30 December 1990) is a football manager. He has managed Charleroi, Eupen and Kortrijk in the Belgian Pro League, starting at age 30.

Biography

Early life and career

Still's parents, Jane (nee Bagley) and Julian Richard Still, left the United Kingdom for Belgium somewhere around the year 1990. He was raised in English and went to a French school in Walloon Brabant. In football, Still started his career as youth coach at Racing Jet Wavre and Royale Union Rixensartoise. In the meantime, he studied at Loughborough University, Université catholique de Louvain, KU Leuven and Erasmus University Rotterdam.

In September 2015, he became assistant of Croatian manager Ivan Leko, initially as video-analyst at Sint-Truiden, but thereafter he followed Leko as assistant at Club Brugge. When Leko was coach at Al Ain, Still went on to work as a project manager at Vlerick Business School and as an analyst on the RTBF football talk show La Tribune. In May 2020, Still rejoined Leko's staff at Antwerp, then Shanghai Port in early 2021.

Charleroi

In May 2021, Still returned from China to start his first job as lead manager at age 30, at Charleroi where he succeeded Karim Belhocine. On his debut on 24 July on the first day of the Belgian Pro League season, he won 3–0 away to Oostende.

On 22 October 2022, Still was sacked by Charleroi, having taken 16 points from a possible 42 at the start of his second season. His final result was a 4–1 loss at Cercle Brugge.

Eupen

In November 2022, Still became the manager of Eupen, also in the top division. After the 2022 FIFA World Cup, his debut was a late 1–0 win away to Seraing on 23 December. He was sacked on 25 April after taking 12 points from a potential 51; his final two games were lost 5–1 at home to Zulte Waregem and 7–0 at Club Brugge.

Kortrijk

Still began the 2023–24 season as manager of Kortrijk, and was the first manager sacked, on 25 September. He had won none and drawn two of his eight games.

Lens

Since 10 June 2024, Edward Still is actually assistant coach at RC Lens, with his brothers : Will Still and Nicolas Still.

Managerial statistics

As of matches played 24 September 2023

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	From	To	Record								Ref
			G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Charleroi	1 July 2021	22 October 2022	55	22	11	22	85	83	+2	40.00
Eupen	22 November 2022	25 April 2023	17	2	6	9	16	37	−21	11.76
Kortrijk	2 July 2023	25 September 2023	8	0	2	6	6	20	−14	00.00
Total			80	24	19	37	107	140	−33	30.00	—

Personal life

Still has two brothers also active in football, William and Nico (video-analyst).