title: Fangio Buyse
text: # Fangio Buyse
  
  Fangio Buyse (born 27 September 1974) is a Belgian football midfielder and manager. Married with Nikolina Stevic and father of Lara Buyse
  
  ## Career
  
  ### Player
  
  He played with Australian Aurelio Vidmar in K.S.V. Waregem and subsequently moved to Greece to play for Niki Volou, Athinaikos, Kerkyra, Agios Dimitrios and Acharnaikos. In 2006 he went to Cyprus to play for Doxa Katokopias for two seasons, and then from summer 2008 he played for APOP Kinyras Peyias. At APOP Kinyras Peyias he helped them win their first Cypriot Cup title in 2009 and scored in the final against AEL Limassol.
  
  ### Manager
  
  In his first year as a player/manager in 2012–13 he managed to get AEK Kouklia F.C. promoted for the first time in the team's history to the Cypriot First Division. In July 2013 he moved to AC Omonia Nicosia , first as coach of the U-21 team and later in a double role also as Assistant-coach after the team sacked Toni Savevski. In a 21-month period he worked together with 3 headcoaches; Nenad Starovlah, Miguel Angel Lotina and Costas Kaiafas. He also was care-taker for Omonia's win over EN Paralimni on 5 January 2014. After 3.5 years in Omonia Nicosia AC he moved back to Niki Volou (his first team as a player in Greece), and started first as technical director of the academy, as he was also in his last year in Omonia. Then in 2017-18 as the first team manager he won the local Thessaly Cup, and also took the team to the Football League II Cup final. In 2018-19 he became manager of Olympiakos Nicosia. When he started they were in last position with 0 points, but he managed to get them promoted to the first division. After this successful season he decided to leave Cyprus. He was close to signing for FC Lugano but at the last moment the deal fell through, so he then joined newly promoted Blue Boys Muhlenbach and he managed to keep them in the BGL League. Due to Corona and the stop of the Championship in Luxembourg he moved to his home country to join KMSK Deinze.
  
  ### Technical Director
  
  After a 1-year stay in Deinze he received an offer from Saudi Professional League Abha Club to become technical director. At his arrival on 15 October the team was in the last place with only 4 points in 7 games. Abha Club after all they remained in the highest league. Also for the season 2022-23 an easy stay in the league was secured fast.
  
  ## Honours
  
  ### Player
  
  KSV Waregem
  
  * Belgian second division: 1994–95
  
  Athinaikos
  
  * Greece second division: 2000–01
  
  APOP Kinyras
  
  * Cypriot Cup: 2008–09
  
  ### Coach
  
  Aek kouklia FC
  
  * Promotion to Premier League: 2013
  
  Omonia Nicosia
  
  * Qualification round Europa league: 2014-2015-2016
  
  Nikivolou
  
  * Thessalia Cup 2017
  * Qualification Greek Cup groups 2018
  
  Olympiakos Nicosia
  
  * Promotion to Premier League: 2019
  
  ## Managerial statistics
  
  | Team | From | To | Competition | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Team | From | To | Competition | G | W | D | L | Win % |
  | AEK Kouklia FC | 1 July 2012 | 30 June 2013 | League | 32 | 21 | 2 | 9 | 065.63 |
  | AC Omonia Nicosia | 1 July 2013 | 30 June 2014 | League | 26 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 065.38 |
  | AC Omonia Nicosia | 1 July 2014 | 30 June 2015 | League | 26 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 069.23 |
  | Niki Volou FC | 1 July 2017 | 30 June 2018 | League | 24 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 054.17 |
  | Olympiakos Nicosia | 27 September 2018 | 30 May 2019 | League | 28 | 22 | 3 | 3 | 078.57 |
  | TOTAL | | | League | 136 | 92 | 19 | 25 | 067.65 |
  