Bruce Arena - International Matches as Coach


The outstanding US American coach coached the USA national team for 146 international matches, and thereby belongs to the select company of coaches with 100 or more international matches. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.


Born: 21- 9-1951
Country: United States
Matches as Coach:	146		(W80-D34-L32 – GF242-GA111 – %66.44)
Age First Match: 47 yr  46 d	    6-11-1998 vs. Australia 0-0
Age Last Match:  66 yr  19 d	   10-10-2017 vs. Trinidad/Tobago 1-2
National Team Career: 18 yr 338 d

Coach for United States
Caps    Date  	Venue   	Opponent       Score 	Competition
first tenure
  1    6-11-98	San Jose	Australia	0-0	
  2   24- 1-99	Santa Cruz	Bolivia 	0-0	
  3    6- 2-99	Jacksonville	Germany 	3-0	
  4   21- 2-99	Ft. Lauderdale	Chile   	2-1	
  5   11- 3-99	Los Angeles	Guatemala	3-1	US Cup
  6   13- 3-99	San Diego	Mexico  	1-2	US Cup
  7   13- 6-99	Washington DC	Argentina	1-0	
  8   24- 7-99	Guadalajara	New Zealand	2-1	Confederations Cup
  9   28- 7-99	Guadalajara	Brazil  	0-1	Confederations Cup
 10   30- 7-99	Guadalajara	Germany 	2-0	Confederations Cup
 11    1- 8-99	Cd. de México	Mexico  	0-1	Confederations Cup
 12    3- 8-99	Guadalajara	Saudi Arabia	2-0	Confederations Cup
 13    8- 9-99	Kingston	Jamaica 	2-2	
 14   17-11-99	Marrakesh	Morocco 	1-2	
 15   16- 1-00	Pasadena	Iran    	1-1	
 16   29- 1-00	Coquimbo	Chile   	2-1	
 17   12- 2-00	Miami   	Haiti   	3-0	CONCACAF Cup
 18   16- 2-00	Miami   	Peru    	1-0	CONCACAF Cup
 19   19- 2-00	Miami   	Colombia 	2-2 [1]	CONCACAF Cup
 20   12- 3-00	Birmingham	Tunisia 	1-1	
 21   26- 4-00	Moskva  	Russia  	0-2	
 22    3- 6-00	Washington DC	South Africa	4-0	US Cup
 23    6- 6-00	Foxborough	Ireland 	1-1	US Cup
 24   11- 6-00	East Rutherford	Mexico  	3-0	US Cup
 25   16- 7-00	Mazatenango	Guatemala	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 26   23- 7-00	San José 	Costa Rica	1-2	World Cup Qualifier
 27   16- 8-00	Foxborough	Barbados	7-0	World Cup Qualifier
 28    3- 9-00	Washington DC	Guatemala	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 29   11-10-00	Columbus	Costa Rica	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 30   25-10-00	Los Angeles	Mexico  	2-0	
 31   15-11-00	St. Michael	Barbados	4-0	World Cup Qualifier
 32   27- 1-01	Oakland 	China   	2-1	
 33    3- 2-01	Miami   	Colombia	0-1	
 34   28- 2-01	Columbus	Mexico  	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 35    3- 3-01	Pasadena	Brazil  	1-2	
 36   28- 3-01	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 37   25- 4-01	Kansas City	Costa Rica	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 38    7- 6-01	Columbus	Ecuador		0-0	
 39   16- 6-01	Kingston	Jamaica 	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 40   20- 6-01	Foxborough	Trinidad/Tobago	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 41    1- 7-01	Cd. de México	Mexico  	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 42    1- 9-01	Washington DC	Honduras	2-3	World Cup Qualifier
 43    5- 9-01	San José 	Costa Rica	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
 44    7-10-01	Foxborough	Jamaica 	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 45   11-11-01	Port of Spain	Trinidad/Tobago	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 46    9-12-01	Seogwipo	South Korea	0-1	
 47   19- 1-02	Pasadena	South Korea	2-1	CONCACAF Cup
 48   21- 1-02	Pasadena	Cuba		1-0	CONCACAF Cup
 49   27- 1-02	Pasadena	El Salvador	4-0	CONCACAF Cup
 50   30- 1-02	Pasadena	Canada 		0-0 [2]	CONCACAF Cup
 51    2- 2-02	Pasadena	Costa Rica	2-0	CONCACAF Cup
 52   13- 2-02	Catania 	Italy   	0-1	
 53    2- 3-02	Seattle 	Honduras	4-0	
 54   10- 3-02	Birmingham	Ecuador		1-0	
 55   27- 3-02	Rostock		Germany 	2-4	
 56    3- 4-02	Denver		Mexico  	1-0	
 57   17- 4-02	Dublin		Ireland 	1-2	
 58   12- 5-02	Washington DC	Uruguay		2-1	
 59   16- 5-02	East Rutherford	Jamaica 	5-0	
 60   18- 5-02	Foxborough	Netherlands	0-2	
 61    5- 6-02	Suwon		Portugal	3-2	World Cup
 62   10- 6-02	Daegu		South Korea	1-1	World Cup
 63   14- 6-02	Daejeon		Poland		1-3	World Cup
 64   17- 6-02	Jeonju		Mexico  	2-0	World Cup
 65   21- 6-02	Ulsan		Germany 	0-1	World Cup
 66   20-11-02	Washington DC	El Salvador	2-0	
 67   18- 1-03	Ft. Lauderdale	Canada		4-0	
 68    8- 2-03	Miami   	Argentina	0-1	
 69   12- 2-03	Kingston	Jamaica 	2-1	
 70   29- 3-03	Seattle 	Venezuela	2-0	
 71    8- 5-03	Houston		Mexico  	0-0	
 72   26- 5-03	San Jose	Wales		2-0	
 73    8- 6-03	Richmond	New Zealand	2-1	
 74   19- 6-03	Saint-Etienne	Turkey		1-2	Confederations Cup
 75   21- 6-03	Lyon		Brazil  	0-1	Confederations Cup
 76   23- 6-03	Lyon		Cameroon	0-0	Confederations Cup
 77    6- 7-03	Columbus	Paraguay	2-0	
 78   12- 7-03	Foxborough	El Salvador	2-0	CONCACAF Cup
 79   14- 7-03	Foxborough	Martinique 	2-0 [*]	CONCACAF Cup
 80   19- 7-03	Foxborough	Cuba		5-0	CONCACAF Cup
 81   23- 7-03	Miami   	Brazil  	1-2	CONCACAF Cup
 82   26- 7-03	Miami   	Costa Rica	3-2	CONCACAF Cup
 83   18- 1-04	Carson		Denmark		1-1	
 84   18- 2-04	Amsterdam	Netherlands	0-1	
 85   13- 3-04	Miami   	Haiti   	1-1	
 86   31- 3-04	Plock		Poland		1-0	
 87   28- 4-04	Dallas		Mexico  	1-0	
 88    2- 6-04	Foxborough	Honduras	4-0	
 89   13- 6-04	Columbus	Grenada		3-0	World Cup Qualifier
 90   20- 6-04	St. George's	Grenada		3-2	World Cup Qualifier
 91   11- 7-04	Chicago		Poland		1-1	
 92   18- 8-04	Kingston	Jamaica 	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 93    4- 9-04	Foxborough	El Salvador	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 94    8- 9-04	Cd. de Panamá	Panama		1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 95    9-10-04	San Salvador	El Salvador	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 96   13-10-04	Washington DC	Panama		6-0	World Cup Qualifier
 97   17-11-04	Columbus	Jamaica 	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 98    9- 2-05	Port of Spain	Trinidad/Tobago	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 99    9- 3-05	Fullerton	Colombia	3-0	
100   19- 3-05	Albuquerque	Honduras	1-0	
101   27- 3-05	Cd. de México	Mexico  	1-2	World Cup Qualifier
102   30- 3-05	Birmingham	Guatemala	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
103   28- 5-05	Chicago		England		1-2	 
104    4- 6-05	Salt Lake City	Costa Rica	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
105    8- 6-05	Cd. de Panamá	Panama		3-0	World Cup Qualifier
106    7- 7-05	Seattle 	Cuba		4-1	CONCACAF Cup
107    9- 7-05	Seattle 	Canada		2-0	CONCACAF Cup
108   12- 7-05	Foxborough	Costa Rica	0-0	CONCACAF Cup
109   16- 7-05	Foxborough	Jamaica 	3-1	CONCACAF Cup
110   21- 7-05	East Rutherford	Honduras	2-1	CONCACAF Cup
111   24- 7-05	East Rutherford	Panama	 	0-0 [3]	CONCACAF Cup
112   17- 8-05	East Hartford	Trinidad/Tobago	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
113    3- 9-05	Columbus	Mexico  	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
114    7- 9-05	Cdad. Guatemala	Guatemala	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
115    8-10-05	San José	Costa Rica	0-3	World Cup Qualifier
116   12-10-05	Foxborough	Panama		2-0	World Cup Qualifier
117   12-11-05	Glasgow 	Scotland	1-1	
118   22- 1-06	San Diego	Canada		0-0	
119   29- 1-06	Carson		Norway		5-0	
120   10- 2-06	San Francisco	Japan		3-2	
121   19- 2-06	Frisco		Guatemala	4-0	
122    1- 3-06	Kaiserslautern	Poland		1-0	
123   22- 3-06	Dortmund	Germany 	1-4	
124   11- 4-06	Cary		Jamaica 	1-1	
125   23- 5-06	Nashville	Morocco 	0-1	
126   26- 5-06	Cleveland	Venezuela	2-0	
127   28- 5-06	East Hartford	Latvia		1-0	
128   12- 6-06	Gelsenkirchen	Czech Republic	0-3	World Cup
129   17- 6-06	Kaiserslautern	Italy   	1-1	World Cup
130   22- 6-06	Nürnberg	Ghana		1-2	World Cup
second tenure
131   24- 3-17	San Jose	Honduras	6-0	World Cup Qualifier
132   28- 3-17	Cd. de Panamá	Panama		1-1	World Cup Qualifier
133    3- 6-17	Sandy		Venezuela	1-1	
134    8- 6-17	Commerce City	Trinidad/Tobago	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
135   11- 6-17	Cd. de México	Mexico  	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
136    1- 7-17	East Hartford	Ghana		2-1	
137    8- 7-17	Nashville	Panama		1-1	CONCACAF Cup
138   12- 7-17	Tampa Bay	Martinique 	3-2 [*]	CONCACAF Cup
139   15- 7-17	Cleveland	Nicaragua	3-0	CONCACAF Cup
140   19- 7-17	Philadelphia	El Salvador	2-0	CONCACAF Cup
141   22- 7-17	Dallas		Costa Rica	2-0	CONCACAF Cup
142   26- 7-17	Santa Clara	Jamaica 	2-1	CONCACAF Cup
143    1- 9-17	Harrison	Costa Rica	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
144    5- 9-17	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
145    6-10-17	Orlando		Panama		4-0	World Cup Qualifier
146   10-10-17	Port of Spain	Trinidad/Tobago	1-2	World Cup Qualifier


[1] USA lost 1-2 on penalty kicks.
[2] USA won 4-2 on penalty kicks.
[3] USA won 3-1 on penalty kicks.
[*] Not full A for FIFA (Martinique is not a FIFA member)


Total Record

Matches	Won Draw Lost	For-Against     Points	Percentage

    146	 80  34	 32	242-111		194	66.44

Types of Matches
Friendlies		58
World Cup Qualifier	42
CONCACAF Gold Cup	25
Confederations Cup	 8
World Cup		 8
US Cup		 	 5

Total matches:         146



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