{{Short description|Iranian football manager (born 1947)}} {{use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Bahman Foroutan | image = | fullname = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|02|04|df=y}}<ref name="world">{{cite web|url=https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe222096/|title=Bahman Foroutan|language=en|work=worldfootball.net|access-date=2024-01-08}}</ref> | birth_place = Tehran, Pahlavi Iran<ref name="world"/> | manageryears1 = 1984 | managerclubs1 = TuS Koblenz | manageryears2 = 1999 | managerclubs2 = Balestier Khalsa FC | manageryears3 = 2005–2007 | managerclubs3 = Shamoushak Noshahr FC | manageryears4 = 2010 | managerclubs4 = Türkiyemspor Berlin | manageryears5 = 2010–2011 | managerclubs5 = Berliner AK 07 | manageryears6 = 2011 | managerclubs6 = Türkiyemspor Berlin | manageryears7 = 2013 | managerclubs7 = Persepolis Shomal FC | manageryears8 = 2014 | managerclubs8 = Hertha Zehlendorf | manageryears9 = 2024 | managerclubs9 = Tasmania Berlin }} '''Bahman Foroutan''' ({{langx|fa|بهمن فروتن}}; born 4 February 1947) is an Iranian football manager who lives and works in Germany. He has also managed Balestier Khalsa FC in Singapore and Shamoushak Noshahr FC in Iran.
==Early and personal life== Foroutan was born in Tehran. His father aspired for him to work in the film industry.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fani|first=Enayat|date=2010-06-23|url=https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran/2010/06/100623_l13_hard_talk_bahman_foroutan|title=بهمن فروتن: فوتبال دست محافظه کاران است، مشکل همين است|language=fa|work=bbc.com|publisher=BBC}}</ref>
Foroutan is the father of German actress Melika Foroutan, German social scientist Naika Foroutan and German football manager Nikolai Foroutan.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bongard|first=Michael|url=https://www.rhein-zeitung.de/sport/fussball/oberliga-rheinland-pfalz-saar_artikel,-trainerlegende-bahman-foroutan-ich-bin-bereit-fuer-meine-alte-heimat-_arid,2147200.html|title=Trainerlegende Bahman Foroutan: Ich bin bereit für meine alte Heimat |language=de|work=Rhein-Zeitung|date=2020-07-31|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
==Management style== Foroutan has used a back four. He has been described as "impulsive on the sidelines, meticulous on the tactics board".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wolf|first=Matthias|url=https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/bak-coach-bahman-foroutan-hat-mal-beim-zdf-gearbeitet-und-irans-nationalelf-trainiert-so-einer-weiss-wie-man-mainz-im-pokal-schlagen-kann-barcelona-in-hosentraegern-li.1228977|title=Barcelona in Hosenträgern|language=de|date=2010-08-14|work=Berliner Zeitung}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{TuS Koblenz managers}}
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