Stuart Campbell (footballer)

Stuart Campbell

Campbell playing for Bristol Rovers in 2007
Personal information
Full name	Stuart Pearson Campbell
Date of birth	(1977-12-09) 9 December 1977 (age 39)
Place of birth	Corby, England
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current team	Tampa Bay Rowdies (Head coach)
Youth career
–	Corby Town
–	Leicester City
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1996–2001	Leicester City	37	(0)
2000	→ Birmingham City (loan)	2	(0)
2000–2001	→ Grimsby Town (loan)	38	(2)
2001–2004	Grimsby Town	117	(10)
2004–2011	Bristol Rovers	288	(3)
2012–2013	Tampa Bay Rowdies	28	(0)
Total		510	(15)
National team‡
1998–1999	Scotland U21	14	(0)
Teams managed
2011	Bristol Rovers (caretaker)
2014–2015	Tampa Bay Rowdies (assistant)
2015–	Tampa Bay Rowdies
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 September 2012. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23:33, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 September 2012.

Stuart Pearson Campbell (born 9 December 1977) is an English-born Scottish former professional footballer and current head coach of the Tampa Bay Rowdies. He assumed that role after the midseason firing of Thomas Rongen in August 2015.

As a player he was as a midfielder between 1996 and 2013. He has previously played for Leicester City where he played in the English Premier League before moving on loan to Birmingham City and Grimsby Town. He signed with Grimsby on a permanent basis in 2001, and he remained with the club until joining Bristol Rovers in the summer of 2004. Campbell became club captain at Rovers and in 2012 he briefly managed the club on a caretaker basis before leaving the club at the end of the season. At international level, he won 14 caps for the Scotland under-21 team.

Campbell was born in Corby, Northamptonshire. As a youth he played for hometown club Corby Town, before joining Leicester City, for whom he made his first-team debut in 1996 aged 18. Though manager Martin O'Neill rated him as an outstanding prospect, he averaged fewer than ten Premier League appearances a season for Leicester, mostly as a substitute. In 2000 he was loaned to First Division club Birmingham City, where he played two games before returning to Leicester.