David Mitchell (Australian association footballer)

Dave Mitchell

Personal information
Full name	David Stuart Mitchell
Date of birth	13 June 1962 (1962-06-13) (age 49)
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Playing position	Manager (former Striker)
Club information
Current club	Perth Glory
Youth career
	Adelaide City
–	Sydney City
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1980–1983	Adelaide City	40	(15)
1983–1985	Rangers	26	(6)
1985	Seiko
1985–1987	Eintracht Frankfurt	35	(5)
1987–1989	Feyenoord	40	(12)
1988–1990	Chelsea FC	7	(0)
1990	NEC	6	(0)
1990–1991	Newcastle United	2	(1)
1991–1993	Swindon Town	68	(19)
1993–1993	Altay Izmir	3	(0)
1993–1995	Millwall FC	55	(15)
1995	Selangor		(14)
1996–1997	Sydney Olympic	9	(1)
1997–1999	Sydney United	24	(6)
National team‡
1981	Australia U-20
1981–1993	Australia	44	(13)
Teams managed
1995–1996	Sydney Olympic
1996–1999	Sydney United
1999–2001	Parramatta Power
2005	Sarawak
2006–2007	Perth Glory (Asst.)
2007–2010	Perth Glory
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 7 June 2007. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 25 July 2007

David Stuart "Dave" Mitchell (born 13 June 1962 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a coach and retired Scottish-Australian football (soccer) player. He moved to Australia as a young child. He began his professional career with Adelaide City in 1981, and made his Australia debut against Taiwan that same year. He made 44 appearances for the national team, scoring 13 goals.

Playing career

In a nomadic career, Mitchell played for clubs in England, Scotland, The Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Malaysia and Hong Kong, before returning to Australia to coach Sydney Olympic, Sydney United and Parramatta Power in the National Soccer League. He was the assistant manager to Ron Smith at A-League club Perth Glory for the 2006/2007 season and the first half of the 2007/2008 season before taking the top position after Smith's sacking.

He has appeared as a guest on several occasions for the Australian cable television channel Fox sports 1 which cover the English Premier League. He notably scored the winner in the 1995 Malaysia Cup final; this was a golden goal, the first golden goal to be scored in a Malaysia Cup final.

Managerial career

David's coaching career in the NSL spanned six seasons and 154 matches, in which he recorded 68 wins, 31 draws and 55 losses. When he returned from playing in Europe he was a player/coach for clubs Sydney Olympic and Sydney United. Some of the coaching achievements that he had in Australia was a Grand Final appearance in 1998/99 with Sydney United and also being the inaugural coach of Parramatta Power in 1999/00.

He coached Malaysia second tier club Sarawak and left due to unpaid wages. He returned to Australia to coach Sydney Schoolboy side St Aloysius' College, before leaving to join Perth Glory as assistant to Ron Smith. He also used to be a scout for Feyenoord, acknowledging them about Brett Emerton, Brett Holman and Stephen Laybutt.

He has also been recruited by Australian Technical director Rob Baan as an assistant coach for the Australia national under-23 football team squad, who were preparing for the Beijing Olympics.

It was speculated that after the sacking of Sydney FC manager Branko Culina Mitchell would be the replacement.^[1]

Mitchell was appointed Interim Head Coach of Perth Glory after the sacking of Ron Smith in November 2007 and was then given a contract until March 2009. It was further extended to the end of the 2010/2011 season in November 2008.^[2]

Mitchell stepped down as Perth Glory coach during the 2010-11 A-League season after an unbeaten run of 5 games until his side conceded four consecutive losses. He decided to move to the role of Director of Football. Mitchell then moved Ian Ferguson to the Head Coaching role to replace himself. Both positions were for the 2010 -2011 and 2011 - 2012 seasons. On March 4 2011 Mitchell was released from his contract from the club after the role was deemed redundant after an independent review of football operations at Perth Glory. Ferguson has been kept on and Mitchell has sought legal advice and is pursuing the matter further. committee^[3]

Honours

Player

With Rangers F.C.:

• Scottish League Cup: 1984–1985

With Swindon Town F.C.

• First Division Play-Off Final: 1993

Personal Honours:

• FFA Hall of Champions Inductee - 2006
• NSL Papasavas Medal (U-21): 1981

Manager

Personal Honours:

• NSL Coach of the Year: 1998-1999

References

1. ^ Culina runs out of time
2. ^ Glory keep faith in Mitchell
3. ^ http://www.a-league.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&id=35840

External links

• David Mitchell at National-Football-Teams.com
• Perth Glory profile
• FFA - Hall of Fame profile
• OZ Football profile

Awards
Preceded by John Spanos	NSL U21 Player of the Year 1981	Succeeded by David Lowe
Preceded by Ange Postecoglou	NSL Coach of the Year 1998/99	Succeeded by Bernd Stange

Persondata
Name	Mitchell, Dave
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	13 June 1962
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death
Place of death