Steve Clarke

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Steve Clarke
Personal information
Full name	Stephen Clarke
Date of birth	August 29, 1963 (1963-08-29) (age 44)
Place of birth	Saltcoats, Scotland
Playing position	Right-back
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1982-1987 1987-1998	St Mirren Chelsea	152 (6) 330 (7)
National team
1987-1994	Scotland U21 Scotland	008 (?) 006 (0)
Teams managed
1999	Newcastle United (caretaker manager)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Stephen "Steve" Clarke (born August 29, 1963 in Saltcoats, Scotland) is a retired Scottish international footballer and the current assistant First Team Coach of Chelsea Football Club.

Contents 1 Playing Career 2 Coaching Career 2.1 Newcastle United 2.2 Chelsea 3 Managerial stats 4 External links

[edit] Playing Career

Clarke started his professional football career with St Mirren F.C. before transferring to Chelsea for £422,000 in February 1987. He stayed at Chelsea until 1998, making 421 appearances (the fifth highest total in the club's history) and winning the club's Player of the Year award in 1994. He was a part of the Chelsea sides which won the FA Cup, League Cup and European Cup Winners Cup in the late 1990s. The Cup Winners' Cup final, against VfB Stuttgart in Stockholm, was Clarke's final appearance for the club. In 2005 he was voted into Chelsea's centenary XI, occupying the right-back berth.

[edit] Coaching Career

[edit] Newcastle United

In 1998 Clarke joined Newcastle United as assistant manager to Ruud Gullit, his former boss at Chelsea, and was briefly caretaker manager following Gullit's sacking.

[edit] Chelsea

After a stint in charge of the youth teams at Chelsea, Clarke became assistant to new manager José Mourinho in the summer of 2004 and was a part of the coaching set-up which saw Chelsea win two Premier League titles, an FA Cup and two League Cups over three seasons. When Mourinho departed from Chelsea in September 2007, Clarke's services were retained by new manager Avram Grant, although Henk ten Cate was brought in as co-assistant.

Following Avram Grant's departure in May 2008 there was increasing speculation where Clarke's future lay. There have been rumours that Clarke could be installed as assistant manager to David Moyes at Everton FC. Further speculation arose when co-assistant, Henk ten Cate had his contract terminated on the 29th May, five days after Grant was sacked. ^[1]

On May 31st 2008, he was linked to the Leicester job vacated by Ian Holloway, who was sacked after guiding the club to relegation to League 1 for the first time in their history. He was also linked with the job after Gary Megson left to join Chelsea's Premiership rivals Bolton.

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Newcastle United		August 28, 1999	September 2, 1999	1	0	1	0	00.00

[edit] External links

• Steve Clarke career stats at Soccerbase
• Steve Clarke management career stats at Soccerbase

Preceded by Ruud Gullit

Newcastle United Caretaker Manager 1999 - 1999

Succeeded by Bobby Robson

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