Nick Platnauer

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Nick Platnauer
Full name	Nicholas Platnauer
Date of birth	June 10, 1961 (age 45)
Place of birth	Leicester, England
Playing position	Left-Back / Midfielder
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
-1982 1982-1983 1983-1984 1984-1986 1986 1986-1989 1989-1991 1991 1991-1993 1993 1993-1994 1994-1996	Bedford Town Bristol Rovers Coventry City Birmingham City →Reading (loan) Cardiff City Notts County →Port Vale (loan) Leicester City Scunthorpe United Mansfield Town Lincoln City	00? (?) 024 (7) 046 (6) 028 (2) 007 (0) 115 (6) 057 (1) 014 (0) 035 (0) 014 (2) 025 (0) 027 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Nick Platnauer (born June 10, 1961) is an English former professional footballer. He was a left-back.

Platnauer was born in Leicester but moved to Bedford and began his career with his local side Bedford Town before joining Bristol Rovers in August 1982. In August 1983 he moved to Coventry City for a fee of £50,000. In December 1984 he joined Birmingham City, but struggled to establish himself and joined Reading on loan in January 1986.

He joined Cardiff City on a free transfer in September 1986 and was a regular for three seasons before a £50,000 move to Notts County in August 1989. He played at Wembley as County won promotion to Division Two via the play-offs.

In January 1991 he had a loan spell with Port Vale and in July that year joined Leicester City on a free transfer. He was a regular in his first season, but lost his place and moved to Scunthorpe United on a free transfer in March 1993. He subsequenly played for Mansfield Town and Lincoln City.

On leaving Lincoln, he became player-coach, under former Notts County teammate Dean Thomas at Bedworth United, before joining Hinckley United where he played over 50 times. He also played once for Kettering Town in 1993 in a cup game against Northampton Town.

He was appointed as manager of Rothwell Town in 2000 and remained in post until October 2003^[1]. The following month, he became caretaker-manager of Kettering Town^[2] after the sacking of Dominic Genovese. He remained in charge until December 2003 when Kevin Wilson was installed as manager, Platnauer having ruled himself out of the running.

He took over as manager of Bedford Town (where Wilson had been manager until October 2003)in January 2004 and in 2006 guided Bedford to promotion from the Southern Football League Premier Division to the Conference South via the play-offs. However, Bedford struggled the following season and Platnauer resigned in January 2007 with the side bottom of the table^[3].