David Williams (Welsh footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | David Williams | ||
| Date of birth | 11 March 1955 | ||
| Place of birth | Cardiff, Wales | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1975–1985 | Bristol Rovers | 352 | (66) |
| 1985–1992 | Norwich City | 74 | (12) |
| National team | |||
| 1986 | Wales | 5 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1983–1985 | Bristol Rovers | ||
| 1988 | Wales (caretaker) | ||
| 1992 | Norwich City (caretaker) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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David Michael Williams (born 11 March 1955 in Cardiff) is a former Welsh international footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently assistant manager at Doncaster Rovers.
Williams started off in amateur football with Clifton Athletic before joining Bristol Rovers in 1975. Unusually, he began with the League club as an amateur, combining playing League football with studying on a teacher training course, and later with teaching at Mostyn High School in Cardiff. After already making 113 League appearances, he finally turned fully professional in 1978.
In May 1983, he was promoted to the position of player-manager after Bobby Gould left. He won 51 of his 108 games in the post, and won the Gloucestershire Cup twice.
He was still player-manager of Rovers when Norwich City manager Ken Brown took him to Carrow Road before the start of the 1985-86 season. Williams won a second division championship medal in his first season with the Canaries and went on to serve the club as player-coach, assistant manager and, for one game, caretaker manager before he left in 1992.
It was during his time with Norwich in Division 1 that he played five times for Wales. In 1988, he also coached the Wales national football team as caretaker manager, including a 1−3 loss against Yugoslavia, prior to the appointment of Terry Yorath.
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