Steve Darby

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Steve Darby
Personal information
Full name	Stephen David Darby
Date of birth	(1955-01-15) 15 January 1955
Place of birth	Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Kelantan (head coach)
Teams managed
Years	Team
1979	East Riffa (head coach)
1979-19??	Bahrain (assistant coach)
1995–1998	Sydney Olympic (head coach)
1998–2000	Johor (head coach)
2001-2002	Vietnam Women
2002–2005	Home United (head coach)
2005–2008	Perak (head coach)
2008	Thailand (assistant coach)
2009	Thailand U23 (manager)
2011	Mohun Bagan (manager)
2014-	Kelantan (head coach)

Stephen David "Steve" Darby (born 15 January 1955) is an English football coach and former player. He is well known throughout Asia as a pundit for ESPN Star Sports and current Kelantan head coach in Malaysia Super League.^[1]

Playing career

Darby started out as a goalkeeper for Liverpool Schools and FA Youth Team but never made it and subsequently ended up on Tranmere Rovers before playing for teams in the United States and Australia.

Coaching career

Darby obtained his UEFA A Licence in 1979. He became an official FIFA Instructor for the Oceania region in 1981 and AFC Instructor 1998 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, where he enjoyed a successful spell, winning Malaysia FA Cup. He left the club in 2001 to take charge of the Vietnam women, 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 reins at Singapore's Home United. 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 2004 AFC Cup. Also winning the Singapore FA Cup in 2005.

At the end of his Home United 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 despite having offers from two other Malaysian clubs and a Vietnamese club.

He led Perak to a second spot in the league 2006-07 season and to the Malaysia Cup final and an AFC Quarter final.The furthest a Malaysian club had gone in Asian Competitions at that time.

In October 2008, he was appointed as Thailand assistant coach and works together with Peter Reid who was appointed Thailand chief coach in August. He would stay on as assistant coach to the newly appointed Bryan Robson as his assistant and as the U-23 Team Coach, after previous coach Peter Reid left to become Stoke manager Tony Pulis assistant.

In September 2013, Darby has been appointed as Kelantan head coach after previous coaches contract expires. He familiar with Malaysian football as previously coached Johor and Perak.^[2]

Personal life

Darby holds a Bachelor (Hons) in Physical Education from the University of Leeds and Post Graduate qualifications in Sports Administration from the University of Canberra. He also holds a TEFL Certificate from Cambridge. He speaks Arabic, French and a little Malay. He is married to Nguyen Thi Van Anh. Their daughter, Quinn Elsa, was born in 2005.

He was previously married to Anissa Tann, who had been one of the Australian national team players in his charge.^[3]

References

↑ "Darby: I never set targets!". 247Sports.com. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
↑ "Darby to coach Kelantan next season". 247Sports.com. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
↑ "Anissa Tann-Darby". Australian Sports Commission. Archived from the original on 20 January 2000. Retrieved 12 January 2014.

External links

v t e Australia women's national association football team – managers

Selby (1978–80) Tagg (1981) Selby (1983–84) Darby (1984) Robins (1986–87) Doyle (1988) Darby (1989–91) Sermanni (1994–97) Brown (1997–99) Tanzey (1999–2000) Santrac (2001–04) Sermanni (2005–12) de Reus (2013–)

Thailand national football team – managers

Pratiab (1965–??)
Glomb (1968–??)
Saner (1975)
Schnittger (1976–78)
Bickelhaupt (1979)
Prawit (1981–??)
Yanyong (1983–??)
Ziese (1985–86)
Carvalho (1989–91)
Stubbe (1992–93)
Worawit (1994)
Chatchai (1995)
Thawatchai (1996)
Arjhan (1996)
Cramer (1997)
Witthaya (1997–98)
Withe (1998–2002)
Carvalho (2003–04)
Chatchai (2004)
Held (2004)
Charnwit (2005–08)
Reid (2008–09)
Darby (2009 ^c)
Robson (2009–11)
Schäfer (2011–13)
Kiatisuk (2013 ^c)
Surachai (2013)
Kiatisuk (2014–)

v t e Mohun Bagan A.C. – managers

Okorie (2007) Pereira (2007–08) Bencherifa (2008–10) Chatterjee (2010) Bhattacharya (2010) Rozario (2010) Bhowmick (2010–11) Darby (2011) Banerjee (2011–12) Kashyap (2012) Banerjee (2012) Bencherifa (2012–)

v t e Kelantan FA – current squad

1 Syazwan 2 Faim 3 Faiz 4 Nwaneri 5 Shahrul 6 Farisham 7 Hasbullah 8 Zaharul 10 Doe 11 Aziz 12 Amar 13 Fakri 14 Lim 15 Famirul 16 Badhri (c) 17 Shawky 18 Nazri 19 Fahmi 21 Shakir 22 Ghaddar 23 Khairul 24 Zairul 29 Faizol 30 Shahrizan Head Coach: Steve Darby

Persondata
Name	Darby, Steve
Alternative names	Darby, Stephen David
Short description	English footballer and manager
Date of birth	15 January 1955
Place of birth	Liverpool, England
Date of death
Place of death

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