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Aitor Karanka
Aitor Karanka
Personal information
Full name Aitor Karanka de la Hoz
Date of birth 18 September 1973 (1973-09-18) (age 50)
Place of birth    Vitoria, Flag of Spain Spain
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Playing position Defender
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Current club Flag of England Birmingham City (Head Coach)
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Aitor Karanka de la Hoz (born 18 September 1973) is a Spanish football manager and former player who is the head coach of Birmingham City.

Save for a brief spell in the United States, at the age of 32, he played solely in Spain for Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid, appearing in 275 La Liga matches over 13 seasons and winning a total of six honours with the latter.

Karanka started a managerial career in the late 2000s, notably working as assistant manager at Real Madrid during Jose Mourinho's tenure as manager from 2010–13. He was appointed manager of Middlesbrough in 2013, guiding them to promotion to the Premier League in 2016 before being dismissed the following year. He became Nottingham Forest manager in January 2018, leaving the role just over a year later in 2019, before being appointed as head coach of fellow Championship club Birmingham City in July 2020.

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Birmingham City F.C. squad - 2023–24

Etheridge •  Laird •  Buchanan •  M. Roberts •  Sanderson •  Bielik •  Bacuna •  T. Roberts •  Hogan •  10 Jutkiewicz •  11 Miyoshi •  12 Drameh •  14 Anderson •  15 Chang •  17 Dembélé •  19 James •  20 Gardner •  21 Ruddy •  23 Longelo •  24 Oakley •  26 Long •  27 Khela •  28 Stansfield •  34 Šunjić •  35 Hall •  43 Dixon •  44 Aiwu •  45 Burke •  48 Mayo •  49 Donovan • 

Manager:  Flag of England Tony Mowbray
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Current EFL League Championship managers

Mowbray (Birmingham City) · Tomasson (Blackburn Rovers) · Flemingi (Bristol City) · Bulut (Cardiff City) · Robins (Coventry City) · Moore (Huddersfield Town) · Rosenior (Hull City) · McKenna (Ipswich Town) · Farke (Leeds United) · Maresca (Leicester City) · Carrick (Middlesbrough) · Edwards (Millwall) · Wagner (Norwich City) · Schumacher (Plymouth Argyle) · Lowe (Preston North End) · Cifuentes (Queens Park Rangers) · Taylor (Rotherham United) · Röhl (Sheffield Wednesday) · Martin (Southampton) · Neil (Stoke City) · Vacant (Sunderland) · Duff (Swansea City) · Ismaël (Watford) · Corberán (West Bromwich Albion)

Middlesbrough Football Club - Managers

J.Robson 1899–1905 • Mackie 1905–06 • Aitken 1906–09 • Gunter 1909–10 • Walker 1910–11 • McIntosh 1911–19 • Howie 1920–23 • Bamlett 1923–26 • McWilliam 1927–34 • Gillow 1934–44 • Jack 1944–52 • Rowley 1952–54 • Dennison 1954–63 • Carter 1963–66 • Anderson 1966–73 • Charlton 1973–77 • Neal 1977–81 • Murdoch 1981–82 • Allison 1982–84 • Maddren 1984–86 • Rioch 1986–90 • Todd 1990–91 • Lawrence 1991–94 • B.Robson 1994–2001 • Venables 2001 • McClaren 2001–06 • Southgate 2006–09 • Strachan 2009–10 • Mowbray 2010–13 • Karanka 2013–17 • Agnew 2017 • Monk 2017 • Pulis 2017–19 • Woodgate 2019–20 • Warnock 2020–21 • Wilder 2021–22 • Carrick 2022–

Nottingham Forest Football Club - Managers

Radford (1889–97) • Haslam (1897–(1909) • Earp (1909–12) • Masters (1912–25) • Baynes (1925–29) • Hardy (1930–31) • Watson (1931–36) • Wightman (1936–39) • Walker (1939–60) • Beattie (1960–63) • Carey (1963–68) • Gillies (1969–72) • Mackay (1972–73) • Brown (1973–75) • Clough (1975–93) • Clark (1993–96) • Pearce (1996–97) • Bassett (1997–99) • Adams (1999) • Atkinson (1999) • Platt (1999–2001) • Hart (2001–04) • Kinnear (2004) • Harford (2004–05) • Megson (2005–06) • Barlow & McParland (2006) • Calderwood (2006–08) • Pemberton (2008–09) • Davies (2009–11) • McClaren (2011) • Kelly (2011) • Cotterill (2011–12) • O'Driscoll (2012) • McLeish (2012–13) • Davies (2013–14) • Brazil (2014) • Pearce (2014–15) • Freedman (2015–16) • Williamsc (2016) • Montanier (2016–17) • Brazilc (2017) • Warburton (2017) • Brazilc (2017–18) • Karanka (2018–(19) • Irelandc (2019) • O'Neill (2019) • Lamouchi (2019–20) • Hughton (2020–21) • Reidc (2021) • Cooper (2021–23) • Santo (2023–) •

Birmingham City Football Club - Managers

Jones (1892–1908) · Watson (1908–10) · McRoberts (1910–15) · Richards (1915–23) · Beer (1923–27) · Harvey (1927–28) · Knighton (1928–33) · Liddell (1933–39) · Camkin (1939–44) · Goodier (1944–45) · Storer (1945–49) · Brocklebank (1949–54) · Turner (1954–58) · Turner and Beasley (1958) · Beasley (1958–60) · Merrick (1960–64) · Mallett (1964–65) · Cullis (1965–70) · Goodwin (1970–75) · Bell (1975–77) · Ramsey (1977–78) · Smith (1978–82) · Saunders (1982–86) · Bond (1986–87) · Pendrey (1987–89) · Mackay (1989–91) · Macari (1991) · Cooper (1991–93) · Fry (1993–96) · Francis (1996–2001) · Bruce (2001–07) · McLeish (2007–11) · Hughton (2011–12) · Clark (2012–14) · Rowett (2014–16) · Zola (2016–17) · Redknapp (2017) · Cotterill (2017–18) · Monk (2018–19) · Clotet (2019–20) · Karanka (2020–21) · Bowyer (2021–22)  · Eustace (2022–23) · Rooney (2023–24) · Mowbray (2024–)

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