Carles Cuadrat

Carles Cuadrat

Cuadrat with Bengaluru in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Carles Cuadrat Xiqués
Date of birth	(1968-10-28) 28 October 1968 (age 55)
Place of birth	Barcelona, Spain
Position(s)	Left-back
Team information
Current team	East Bengal (head coach)
Youth career
1978–1988	Barcelona
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1987–1988	Barcelona C	11	(0)
1988–1989	Barcelona B	0	(0)
1989–1996	Gavà	187	(33)
1990–1997	Sabadell	32	(1)
1997–1998	Gavà	1	(0)
Total		231	(34)
International career
1985–1988	Spain U18	14	(1)
Managerial career
2014–2015	El Salvador (assistant)
2016–2017	Bengaluru (assistant)
2018–2021	Bengaluru
2021–2022	Aris Limassol (assistant)
2023	Midtjylland (assistant)
2023–	East Bengal
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Carles Cuadrat Xiqués (born 28 October 1968) is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is the current head coach of Indian Super League club East Bengal.

Cuadrat was a defender, who played as a left-back and spent most of his career with Spanish club CF Gavà. He also played for FC Barcelona reserves as well as the Spanish national youth teams.

After retiring as a player, Cuadrat started working as a conditioning coach with various Barcelona teams from 1998 to 2005. He also played the same role in Galatasaray and Saudi Arabia national team from 2008 to 2013. In 2014, he joined El Salvador national team as an assistant coach. In 2016, Cuadrat joined Indian club Bengaluru as an assistant coach to Albert Roca and later appointed as the head coach in 2018. He won the Indian Super League with the club.

After assistant coaching spells at Aris Limassol and Midtjylland, Cuadrat joined East Bengal in 2023.