Brian Green (footballer)

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Brian Green
Personal information
Full name Brian Geoffrey Green
Date of birth (1935-06-05)5 June 1935
Place of birth Droylsden, England
Date of death 14 August 2012(2012-08-14) (aged 77)[1]
Place of death Rochdale, England
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1953–1954 Haggate Lads
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1954–1958 Rochdale 46 (8)
1958–1959 Southport 20 (7)
1959–1960 Colwyn Bay
1960–1961 Barrow 3 (0)
1961–1962 Altrincham 22 (7)
1962–1963 Exeter City 9 (1)
1963 Chesterfield 2 (0)
1963 Mossley
1964 Sydney Prague
Managerial career
1975–1976 Australia
1976–1977 Rochdale
1980–1982 Bryne
1986–1987 Start
1989, 1991 Egersunds
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Brian Geoffrey Green (5 June 1935 – 14 August 2012) is an English former football coach and player. As a player, he competed in the Football League as a forward in the 1950s and 1960s for Rochdale, Southport, Barrow, Exeter City and Chesterfield.[2]

Green was later coach of the Australia national team in 1975 and 1976.[3][4][5] Green coached in Norway with Bryne from 1980 to 1982,[6] and with Start in 1986–87.[7] He later also managed Egersunds in division four in two seasons, 1989 and 1991.

He also had a spell as a coach in Leeds United.[8] Green's coaching career also included a successful stint at Chester, with the club reaching the semi-finals of the Football League Cup and winning promotion from the Football League Fourth Division in 1974-75 when he worked alongside manager Ken Roberts.

  1. ^ "Former manager dies aged 77". Fansnetwork.co.uk. 14 August 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  2. ^ Football League Career Stats at Neil Brown
  3. ^ "Englishman to be national coach". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 August 1975. p. 17. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Green blames the press". The Sydney Morning Herald. 28 March 1976. p. 53. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Australian player database - GR". Oz Football. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  6. ^ "Brynes Trenere gjennom tidene" (PDF). Bryne Magasinet (in Norwegian): 22. February 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
  7. ^ ""Historisk oversikt: Trenere"". Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) (in Norwegian). IK Start. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  8. ^ "Complete A-Z of players 1919-2010: Gabrielson to Gurney". Mossley A.F.C. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2010.