Stevan Bates

{{short description|Serbian retired footballer|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{distinguish|Steven Bates}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}

{{Infobox football biography

|name = Stevan Bates

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|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|11|29|df=y}}

|birth_place = Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia

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|position = Defender

|currentclub = Shanghai Port (assistant)

|years1 = 2000–2002. | clubs1 = Železničar Beograd | caps1 = 58 | goals1 = 1

|years2 = 2002–2005 | clubs2 = Železnik | caps2 = 59 | goals2 = 4

|years3 = 2004 | clubs3 = → Alania Vladikavkaz (loan) | caps3 = 15 | goals3 = 1

|years4 = 2005–2006 | clubs4 = Rad | caps4 = 26 | goals4 = 2

|years5 = 2006–2009 | clubs5 = Châteauroux | caps5 = 66 | goals5 = 3

|years6 = 2009–2010 | clubs6 = Baku | caps6 = 30 | goals6 = 0

|years7 = 2010 | clubs7 = Tromsø | caps7 = 1 | goals7 = 0

|years8 = 2011–2012 | clubs8 = Baku | caps8 = 28 | goals8 = 0

|years9 = 2012–2013 | clubs9 = Rad | caps9 = 0 | goals9 = 0

|years10 = 2012 | clubs10= → Khazar Lankaran (loan) | caps10= 8 | goals10= 0

|years11 = 2012–2013 | clubs11= → Mes Kerman (loan) | caps11= 27 | goals11= 0

|years12 = 2013 | clubs12= OFK Beograd | caps12= 7 | goals12= 0

|years13 = 2014–2015 | clubs13= Hunan Billows | caps13= 53 | goals13= 1

|years14 = 2016–2017 | clubs14= Rad | caps14= 35 | goals14= 1

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|manageryears1 = 2018–2020

|managerclubs1 = Partizan (U17 assistant)

|manageryears2 = 2021–

|managerclubs2 = Shanghai Port (assistant)

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Stevan Bates ({{lang-sr-Cyrl|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.

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.{{refn|{{LFP|id=bates-stevan}}}}

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,[http://www.itromso.no/100Sport/fotball/eliteserien/article168860.snd Bates forlater TIL] re-signing for his former club FC Baku.

On 16 January 2014, Bates transferred to China League One side Hunan Billows.{{cite web |title=湘涛签约塞尔维亚中卫 老总:这赛季该不怕高球了 |url=https://sports.sina.com.cn/b/2014-01-16/11376983310.shtml |website=sports.sina.com.cn |access-date=23 June 2021 |language=zh |date=16 January 2014}}{{cite web |title=新年外援第一签 |url=http://hnxiangtao.com/shownews.aspx?nid=953 |publisher=Hunan Billows F.C. |access-date=23 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305025148/http://hnxiangtao.com/shownews.aspx?nid=953 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |date=17 January 2014|language=zh}}

In summer 2017, Bates retired from playing football professionally.{{cite web |url=https://scontent.fbeg5-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23518976_777850612422548_3818336742194456056_n.jpg?oh=a7b101ab85676130249dccb14fee1799&oe=5ABC6EEB|script-title=sr:Батес уз Николића|website=Sportski žurnal, detail from printed edition|language=Serbian|date=10 November 2017|accessdate=3 January 2018}}

Coaching career

In January 2021, Bates was appointed assistant manager of Ivan Leko at Shanghai Port.{{cite web |title=Bates u Lekovom stručnom štabu u Šangaju |url=https://www.mozzartsport.com/fudbal/vesti/bates-u-lekovom-strucnom-stabu-u-sangaju/375068 |website=mozzartsport.com |access-date=23 June 2021 |language=sr |date=3 January 2021}}

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