Tisdale managing Exeter City in 2015
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Paul Robert Tisdale | ||
Date of birth | 14 January 1973 | ||
Place of birth | Valletta, Malta | ||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Exeter City (manager) | ||
Youth career | |||
1987–1991 | Southampton | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1991–1997 | Southampton | 16 | (1) |
1993 | → Northampton Town (loan) | 5 | (0) |
1996 | → Huddersfield Town (loan) | 2 | (0) |
1997–1998 | Bristol City | 6 | (0) |
1997–1998 | → Exeter City (loan) | 10 | (1) |
1998 | → Dundee United (loan) | 0 | (0) |
1998 | FinnPa | 0 | (0) |
1998–1999 | Panionios | 18 | (1) |
1999–2000 | Yeovil Town | 15 | (1) |
2007–2011 | Exeter City | 1 | (0) |
2014 | Exeter City | 0 | (0) |
Total | 73 | (4) | |
Teams managed | |||
2001–2006 | Team Bath | ||
2006– | Exeter City | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Paul Robert Tisdale (born 14 January 1973) is a former professional footballer who is the manager of League Two club Exeter City.
Tisdale represented Southampton, Bristol City, FinnPa, Panionios and Yeovil Town during a career which began in 1991 and concluded in 2000. During his time at Exeter City, he remained registered as a player between 2007 and 2016, making his début as a late substitute in a 2–1 victory at Sheffield Wednesday at the end of the 2010–11 season and naming himself as a substitute in the EFL Trophy match at Oxford Utd on 30 August 2016
Tisdale previously managed Team Bath. Having managed Exeter City since June 2006, and as of June 2015, he is the second longest-serving manager in the English Football League behind Arsène Wenger.
As a former England youth international, Tisdale came through the youth system at Southampton. He signed as a professional in June 1991. He was loaned out to Northampton Town in Feb-March 1993, where he made 5 league appearances.
He eventually made his Southampton debut in a League Cup game against Huddersfield Town on 5 October 1994. Unfortunately, at this time Southampton were enduring frequent changes of manager and, as a result, Tisdale never had a settled run in the first team. Having played his last senior game for Southampton on 27 April 1996, he again went out on loan in the 1996–97 season, this time to Huddersfield Town, where he made only two appearances.