Stuart Pearce
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Pearce in 2016
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Stuart Pearce | ||
| Date of birth | 24 April 1962 | ||
| Place of birth | Hammersmith, London, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1978–1983 | Wealdstone | 176 | (10) |
| 1983–1985 | Coventry City | 51 | (4) |
| 1985–1997 | Nottingham Forest | 401 | (63) |
| 1997–1999 | Newcastle United | 37 | (0) |
| 1999–2001 | West Ham United | 42 | (2) |
| 2001–2002 | Manchester City | 38 | (3) |
| – | Longford AFC | ? | (?) |
| Total | 747 | (82) | |
| National team | |||
| 1986 | England U21 | (0) | |
| 1987–1999 | England | 78 | (5) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1996–1997 | Nottingham Forest (caretaker) | ||
| 2005–2007 | Manchester City | ||
| 2007–2013 | England U21 | ||
| 2011–2012 | Great Britain Olympic | ||
| 2012 | England (caretaker) | ||
| 2014–2015 | Nottingham Forest | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Stuart Pearce MBE (born 24 April 1962) is an English football manager and player. He was most recently the manager of Nottingham Forest before being sacked in February 2015. Pearce was the manager of the England national under-21 team from 2007 to 2013 and also managed the Great Britain Olympic football team at the 2012 Olympics.
As a player, Pearce played as a defender and appeared for Wealdstone, Coventry City, Newcastle United, West Ham United and Manchester City, but is best known for his spell at Nottingham Forest, where he regularly captained the team and became the club's most capped International, making 76 of his 78 appearances for England while with the club and captaining the national side on nine occasions. He retired as a player in 2002 while at Manchester City. He remained with Man City as a coach under Kevin Keegan's managership until being promoted to the manager's job, which he held from 2005 to 2007. In 2016, he briefly came out of retirement, signing a one-match deal with Longford, a team dubbed 'The worst in Great Britain', in order to support the grass roots game.
Born in Hammersmith, London, Pearce first attended Fryent Primary School in Kingsbury, North West London before attending Claremont High School in Kenton. He failed a trial at Queens Park Rangers and then rejected an offer from Hull City, instead settling into a career in the non-league game with his local side, Wealdstone, while training and working as an electrician. For almost five years, he was the first choice full back for the team, then amongst the biggest names of non-league football in the Alliance Premier League.
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