Personal information | |||
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Full name | Stephen John Perryman | ||
Date of birth | 21 December 1951 | ||
Place of birth | Ealing, Middlesex England | ||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Playing position | Defender, Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Exeter City (Director of Football) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1969–1986 | Tottenham Hotspur | 655 | (31) |
1986–1987 | Oxford United | 17 | (0) |
1987–1990 | Brentford | 53 | (0) |
Total | 725 | (31) | |
National team | |||
1982 | England | 1 | (0) |
Teams managed | |||
1987–1990 | Brentford (player manager) | ||
1990–1993 | Watford | ||
1994 | Tottenham Hotspur (caretaker) | ||
1995 | Start | ||
1999–2000 | Shimizu S-Pulse | ||
2001–2002 | Kashiwa Reysol | ||
2003 | Exeter City | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Stephen John "Steve" Perryman MBE (born 21 December 1951 in Ealing, Middlesex) is a former English international football player who is best remembered for his successes with Tottenham Hotspur during the 1970s and early 1980s. Perryman was voted Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year in 1982 and made a club record 854 first team appearances for Tottenham. He is now the director of football at Exeter City.
A midfielder and later defender, Perryman played in a club record 866 first team appearances, in all competitions for Tottenham Hotspur between 1969 and 1986 and was their longest serving player. During his seventeen-year career with the north London club, Perryman collected many medals, winning the UEFA Cup in 1972 and 1984 (playing in both legs of the 1972 final and just the first leg of the 1984 final), the FA Cup in 1981 and 1982 and the League Cup in 1971 and 1973.
After leaving White Hart Lane Perryman moved to Oxford United in 1986, then Brentford as player-manager in the same year, before retiring in 1990.
Perryman became manager of Watford from 1990–93 saving them from relegation in the early years, before managing Start in Norway (1995),Shimizu S-Pulse, (1999–2000) and Kashiwa Reysol in Japan (2001–2002). He also served as caretaker manager for Spurs in November 1994. As a coach, he has won the J.League stage championship (1999 2nd Stage) and the Asian Cup Winners Cup (2000), both with Shimizu S-Pulse. He then worked at Exeter City with no official title to help them stay in the then football Division 3. After this he returned to Japan to manage J.League side Kashiwa Reysol.