Colin Kazim-Richards takes first senior coaching job at Crawley Town | OneFootball

According to Meu Timao, Colin Kazim-Richards, a former Corinthians forward, was named Crawley Town head coach on Tuesday for the run-in to the 2025/26 season. He faces immediate pressure for results.

The emergency deal runs only until the end of the campaign. Crawley sit 22nd in EFL League Two and are battling to avoid relegation after a 10-match winless streak. The club are banking on his leadership and international experience to try to secure safety.

It is Kazim-Richards’ first post as a head coach in professional football. He has spent recent years preparing for the transition, combining study with hands-on work late in his playing days.

In 2024 he completed the UEFA A Licence, a key qualification that allows coaching in youth teams, lower professional divisions or within elite club staffs. The accreditation accelerated his entry into the market.

After qualifying he returned to Arsenal, the club that developed him, joining the academy to work closely with young forwards.

Across 2025 he operated as a specialist attackers coach with the under-15 and under-16 sides, drawing on experience from the Premier League, the Süper Lig and Brazil with Corinthians and Coritiba, emphasising positioning, finishing and game awareness.

As a Corinthians player between 2017 and 2018, he made 37 appearances, scored four goals and lifted the 2017 Brasileiro and the 2017 and 2018 Paulista titles.

Source: Meu Timao