Pablo Grandes
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Pablo María Grandes Melgarejo | ||
| Date of birth | 14 October 1986 | ||
| Place of birth | Puerto de Santa María, Spain | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Najran (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Xerez | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2007–2008 | Torredonjimeno | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| 2016–2017 | Xerez Deportivo (youth) | ||
| 2017–2021 | Cádiz (youth) | ||
| 2021–2022 | UD Logroñés (assistant) | ||
| 2022 | Vélez (assistant) | ||
| 2022 | San Fernando (assistant) | ||
| 2022–2024 | Iraq (match analyst) | ||
| 2024 | Iraq Olympic (assistant) | ||
| 2024–2025 | Al-Minaa | ||
| 2025– | Najran | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Pablo Grandes Melgarejo (born 14 October 1986) is a Spanish football coach and current manager of Saudi Second Division League club Najran.[1][2][3]
Early years
[edit | edit source]Grandes began playing football in the lower categories of his hometown Puerto de Santa María, then in the youth team of Xerez. In Andalusia he played for Torredonjimeno in the Tercera División and had a small experience in a team in the Scottish Second Division in 2010. He returned to play in the Andalusian teams and at the same time obtained his coaching license by working as a player trainer in Puerto de Santa María.[4]
Managerial and coaching career
[edit | edit source]Early career
[edit | edit source]Grandes began his coaching career in the youth team of Cádiz, then he was the assistant manager at UD Logroñés, Vélez, and San Fernando. He has always worked as a coach except for the Cádiz youth academy where he did everything: technical training, scouting, analysis.[4][5]
Iraq & Iraq Olympic
[edit | edit source]On November 5, 2022, Jesús Casas was appointed coach of the Iraq national team by the IFA.[6] Casas chose Grandes to be part of his assistant staff as a match analyst, and he was able to lead the Iraq to win the Arabian Gulf Cup for the first time in 35 years, as they had previously worked together at Cádiz youth, when Casas was the coach and Grandes his assistant.[4][7]
On May 27, 2024, the coach of the Iraq Olympic, Radhi Shenaishil, chose Grandes to join his assistant staff in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, while continuing to work with the national team staff as well.[8][9][10]
Al-Minaa
[edit | edit source]On July 29, 2024, the management of Al-Minaa, which is active in the Iraq Stars League, announced that it had contracted with Grandes to lead its team in the league.[11][12][13] On February 8, 2025, the club's management dismissed him after the negative results that Al-Minaa team had achieved in the last rounds and its delay in the Iraq Stars League teams' ranking until it reached an area close to the relegation zone.[14]
Najran
[edit | edit source]On 13 August 2025, Grandes was appointed as manager of Saudi Second Division League club Najran.[15]
Managerial statistics
[edit | edit source]- As of match played 18 November 2025
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||||||
| Al-Minaa | 
|
29 July 2024 | 8 February 2025 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 33.33 | |||
| Najran | 
|
13 August 2025 | present | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 37.50 | |||
| Total | 29 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 34.48 | ||||||
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Pablo Grandes coach profile at Lapreferente.com
- Pablo Grandes at WorldFootball.netLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Cádiz
- Expatriate football managers in Iraq
- Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Iraq
- Spanish men's footballers
- Torredonjimeno CF players
- Spanish football managers
- Spanish expatriate football managers
- Al-Minaa SC managers
- Najran S.FC managers
- Expatriate football managers in Saudi Arabia
- Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
- 21st-century Spanish sportsmen