Steve Darby

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Steve Darby
Personal information
Full name Stephen David Darby
Date of birth 1955
Place of birth    Liverpool, England
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club Perak FA (manager)
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
Liverpool
Tranmere Rovers		    
Teams managed

1995–1998
1998–2000
2002–2005
2005–		 Bahrain
Sydney Olympic
Johor FA
Home United FC
Perak FA

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Stephen David Darby, better known as Steve Darby, is an English football manager currently coaching Perak FA, a team playing in the Malaysian Super League. He is well known throughout Asia as a pundit for ESPN Star Sports.

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[edit] Playing career

Darby started out as a goalkeeper for Liverpool's youth team, but never made it into the first team and subsequently ended up on Tranmere Rovers' books, before playing for teams in the United States and Australia.

[edit] Coaching career

Darby obtained his UEFA A Licence in 1979. He became an official FIFA Instructor for the Oceania region in 1981 and was National Development Manager for the Australian Soccer Federation between 1990-1995.

He then moved on to coach Sydney Olympic, but left in 1998 to coach Johor FA, where he enjoyed a successful spell, winning Malaysian FA Cup. He left the club in 2001 to take charge of the Vietnamese women's football team, whom he led to a gold medal in the SEA Games.

After that, he was appointed youth team coach for Sheffield Wednesday under Terry Yorath, but remained there only for a season before taking over the reigns at Singapore's Home United FC. In his four year tenure as Home United boss, Darby led them to a league and cup double in 2003 and also a semi-final spot in the AFC Cup in 2004.

At the end of his Home United FC contract, Darby was heavily linked to the vacant India manager's post. However, he did not take up that job, choosing instead to join Perak FA despite having offers from two other Malaysian clubs and a Vietnamese club.

He led Perak FA to a second in the league last toughing 2006/07 season and has likely to guided Perak FA to a successful championship challenging position for the this season.

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Perak FA – current squad

23 H Ahmad • 1 N Nourdin • 22 Kamarul Effandy Ramli • 19 A Zainal • 5 Mario Berrios • 4 K Zainuddin • 29 S Subramaniam • 28 Noor Hazrul Mustafa •  Mohd Fauzi Ariffin • 16 W H Chan • 17 K Nanthakumar • 27 Arif Fazlie Saidin • 7 A Azhar (capt) • 10 Mohammad Hardi Jaafar • 12 D Fadzly • 19 Jorge Munoz • 8 S Mustapa • 25 K Jamlus • 13 Razali Umar Kandasamy • 18 Mohd Noor Ismail • 9 C Caceres • manager S Darby