Kirk Coley

Kirk Coley

Personal information
Full name	Kirk Qaól Coley
Date of birth	(1971-10-17) 17 October 1971
Place of birth	Sevier, Tulangia
Playing position(s)	Midfielder
Club information
Current team	Qapitol (18th season)
Youth career
1990–1991	Sevier F.C.
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1991–1994	Sevier B	22	(15)
1994–1996	West Anloiya	11	(3)
1996–1999	Qanagor F.F.	17	(9)
Total		50	(27)
Teams managed
1999–2001	Tulangia State Marksmen
2001–2008	Oaroa F.C.
2008–2010	Olímpico
2010–2015	Serenata Amarela FC
2015–present	Qapitol
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Kirk Qaól Coley (Born October 17, 1971) is a Tierradorian professional football manager and former player. He is one of the most decorated managers ever and is widely considered to be among the greatest managers of all time. He is currently the head coach of Tierradorian Premiership club Qapitol, of which he has been since 2011. Coley previously served as the head coach of Tulangia State University from 1999 to 2001, Oaroa F.C. from 2001 to 2008, and Olímpico from 2008 to 2011.

Prior to his successful managerial career, Coley played as a midfielder for three clubs; Sevier F.C. and S.D. West Anloiya of the Premiership, and Qanagor F.F. of the TFL Championship. His career was mostly uneventful, where he averaged about 0.54 goals per match. Coley would eventually end his playing career in 1999. That same year, he was offered his first managerial position at Tulangia State University's association football program. The 1999–2000 season, Coley's first at TSU, would be the most successful season in school history, finishing with a regular season record of 14–4–2, and winning the Orix-12 Champuionship against Ulunkheria, 6–1. After another successful season at TSU, Coley would be offered another position at TFL Championship club Oaroa F.C., for the 2001–02 season. Coley would turn the club from a mid-table club to a powerhouse, winning three Premierships, in 2003, 2005, and 2006, and the UCFA Champions League in 2004. It was at this time that Coley would rise to national prominence, due to his unique style of coaching and his ability to recruit talent from across the world, leading him to build consistently successful teams.

After a brief and unsuccessful stint at Olímpico, Coley would be offered the head coaching position at Serenata Amarela FC for $31 million. With Amarela, Coley would be the first manager to win two different continental trophies, winning the Sarpedonian Champions League in the 2011–12. That same season, Amarela would also complete a Sarpedonian treble, winning the Cartadanian Premier League and the Taça Cartadania along with the Champions League victory. Coley would end up winning the WAFF Coach of the Year in the 2012 season, and announced a three-year contract extension with Amarela. For the next three years at Amarela, Coley would win the Taça Cartadania two times, and the CPL once. Coley's team consistently finished in the top 4 in the Cartadanian Premier League for the duration of his tenure.

Eventually, after five years at Amarela, Coley would return to Tierrador to become the head coach at Qapitol, where he remains today. Coley's first season at Qapitol was unsuccessful, finishing 7th in the Premiership and falling short of Champions League contention for the 2016–17 season, sparking outrage amongst the Qapitol fanbase. Despite that, Coley would remain for the next season, winning the first of back-to-back Premierships for the club. Under Coley, Qapitol would win the UCFA Champions League three times, the Premiership eight times, and the Qopá Terranóq five times. This also includes two trebles won in the 2017–18 and 2024–25 seasons. Coley also won the UCFA Coach of the Year four times.

Early life

Coley was born on October 17, 1971, in Sevier, Tulangia, to Patrick and Aphía Coley. His father Patrick immigrated to Tierrador in 1956 from Cálfeld, Urcea, where he would marry Kirk's mother Aphía Nuqala, who is of Youkafee descent, just two years later. Coley and his family lived in Sevier until 1979 where they would move to Aquola, a small town in the Qalhéq Mountains, just three months before the outbreak of the Cowboy Crisis, of which Sevier was heavily affected. In an interview with the Levantine Times Union, Coley recalled on his family's decision to move that year, stating "if it weren't for my mother constantly begging my father to move to the mountains, I probably would not be here today." Coley played as a midfielder and a forward for the Aquola High School's varsity association football team, where they would win two state titles, in 1987 and 1990. Coley then graduated from Aquola High School in 1990. He would return to Sevier to begin his football career, playing for the Sevier F.C. youth program, where he would play for one season before getting called up to Sevier's B team.

Media attention & controversies

Todd Qaunas

Kirk Coley has consistently found himself in many media battles with Internacional head coach Todd Qaunas. The first instance of these battles was the fall 2018 edition of the Wooden Bucket Classic, of which was a 3–2 victory by Internacional for their nineteenth straight win. In that match, however, there was a controversial call in which a goal scored by Qapitol player Khaalid Hatem was reversed due to the video assistant referee determining it offsides, despite it not seeming to be offsides at a first glance. Coley was visibly outraged by the call, but was advised by Qapitol owner Kenan Tuqas not to "make a fuss" in the post-game interview. Instead, Coley would make a sarcastic comment directed towards Todd Qaunas and Internacional's "impressive" win streak, saying that "it's not as impressive when you take a look at the refereeing, but we will not get into that." Because of this comment, Coley was fined $43,000 by Football Tierrador. Qaunas would respond one week later, after a 4–1 win over one of Coley's former clubs, Oaroa F.C., stating how Coley, before he leaves a club, convinces the players to transfer to different clubs, as supposedly could not bear to watch his former clubs succeed without him.