Ian Woan
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ian Simon Woan | ||
| Date of birth | 14 December 1967 | ||
| Place of birth | Heswall, England | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Left winger | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Burnley (assistant manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1980–1983 | Manchester United | ||
| 1983–1985 | Manchester City | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1985 | Heswall | ? | (?) |
| 1985–19?? | Caernarfon Town | ? | (?) |
| 19??–1989 | Newtown | ? | (38) |
| 1989–1990 | Runcorn | ? | (12) |
| 1990–2000 | Nottingham Forest | 218 | (41) |
| 2000 | Barnsley | 3 | (0) |
| 2000–2001 | Swindon Town | 22 | (3) |
| 2001 | Columbus Crew | 3 | (0) |
| 2001 | Miami Fusion | 1 | (0) |
| 2002–2003 | Shrewsbury Town | 50 | (7) |
| 2003–2004 | Syracuse Salty Dogs | 41 | (3) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2009 | Portsmouth (caretaker manager) | ||
| 2011–2012 | Watford (assistant manager) | ||
| 2012– | Burnley (assistant manager) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ian Simon Woan (born 14 December 1967) is an English former footballer and current assistant manager at Burnley. He played as a midfielder from 1985 until 2004, starting in non-league football. Signed by Nottingham Forest in 1990, he played for the club for 10 years, including a spell in the Premier League. After leaving the club he played for a number of sides, both in England and in the United States, before retiring in 2005. He is the son of Alan Woan who also played professionally, most notably for Northampton Town, Crystal Palace and Aldershot.
Born in Heswall, Cheshire, Woan started his career in 1985 at Manchester City but never made a start for the then First Division club. He spent five years playing in the lower leagues, including spells at Heswall and Welsh sides Caernarfon Town and Newtown. Playing for Runcorn, his big break came, aged 22, when on 14 March 1990 he joined first division side Nottingham Forest for a fee of £80,000.
Woan did not make an appearance for the Midlanders in the latter half of the 1989–90 season, his debut coming almost ten months after joining the club. He made his first appearance on 2 January 1991 as a substitute in a 6–2 victory over Norwich City and went on to make 12 appearances that season, scoring 3 league goals. He started the 1991 FA Cup Final against Tottenham Hotspur, and was taken off after 63 minutes for Steve Hodge. Forest went on to lose the match in extra time.
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