Óscar Fernández appointed coach of VCF Mestalla

Óscar Fernández has been appointed VCF Mestalla's new coach for the 2020/21 season. He knows the VCF Academy well, as with the Juvenil A side he achieved a league and Copa de Campeones double, as well as leading the team to a place in the youth Copa del Rey final, before taking over at VCF Mestalla and taking them up to Segunda B in 2007/08.

He has also had a brief two-game spell as interim coach of the first team that season, after the departure of Quique Sánchez Flores and before Ronald Koeman was handed the job.

Fernández started his coaching career with Torre Levante Orriols and in 2005/06 he signed for Burjassot CF. His adventures after his first spell took him around the world, from Asteras Tripolis FC in Greece, back to Spain with CF Gandía in Segunda B, then to Qatar in 2012, where he worked at the Aspire Academy and was coach of the Qatar Under-16s side.

Returning to Spain in 2015, he coached Atletico Madrid Juvenil in the División de Honor, winning the league and Copa del Rey in his first season and earning promotion to Segunda B with the B team a year later.

In 2019 he accepted an offer to join UD Almeria, but would leave before the season got underway. Now he returns to his true home, Valencia CF, ten years on from his departure, looking to achieve further success with VCF Mestalla.