Stevan_Bates

Stevan Bates

Stevan Bates

Serbian retired footballer

Not to be confused with Steven Bates.

Stevan Bates (Serbian Cyrillic: Стеван Батес; born 29 November 1981) is a Serbian football coach and former player who played as a defender. He is an assistant coach for the Chinese club Shanghai Port.

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Club career

Born in Belgrade, Bates has played in Yugoslavia/Serbia for Železničar Beograd, Železnik and Rad, in Russia for Alania Vladikavkaz, in France for LB Châteauroux, and in Azerbaijan for FC Baku.[1]

Bates played one league game for Tromsø IL in the Norwegian Premier League 2010 season. Bates did not manage to break into the Tromsø first team squad, and agreed to leave the club after the 2010 season,[2] re-signing for his former club FC Baku.

On 16 January 2014, Bates transferred to China League One side Hunan Billows.[3][4]

In summer 2017, Bates retired from playing football professionally.[5]

Coaching career

In January 2021, Bates was appointed assistant manager of Ivan Leko at Shanghai Port.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Stevan Bates – French league stats at LFP – also available in French (archived)
  2. [2]
    Bates forlater TIL
  3. [3]
    "湘涛签约塞尔维亚中卫 老总：这赛季该不怕高球了". sports.sina.com.cn (in Chinese). 16 January 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  4. [4]
    "新年外援第一签" (in Chinese). Hunan Billows F.C. 17 January 2014. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  5. [5]
    Батес уз Николића. Sportski žurnal, detail from printed edition (in Serbian). 10 November 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  6. [6]
    "Bates u Lekovom stručnom štabu u Šangaju". mozzartsport.com (in Serbian). 3 January 2021. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
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