David Moyes

For the footballer who mostly played for Berwick, see Dave Moyes.

David Moyes
Moyes with West Ham United in 2023
Personal information
Full name David William Moyes[1]
Date of birth (1963-04-25) 25 April 1963 (age 61)[1]
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[1]
Position(s) Centre-back
Youth career
0000–1978 ÍBV
1978–1980 Drumchapel Amateurs[2]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1983 Celtic 24 (0)
1983–1985 Cambridge United 79 (1)
1985–1987 Bristol City 83 (3)
1987–1990 Shrewsbury Town 96 (11)
1990–1992 Dunfermline Athletic 105 (13)
1992–1993 Hamilton Academical 5 (0)
1993–1998 Preston North End 143 (15)
Total 535 (43[3])
International career
1980 Scotland U18
Managerial career
1998–2002 Preston North End
2002–2013 Everton
2013–2014 Manchester United
2014–2015 Real Sociedad
2016–2017 Sunderland
2017–2018 West Ham United
2019–2024 West Ham United
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David William Moyes (born 25 April 1963) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of Premier League club West Ham United. He was the 2003, 2005 and 2009 League Managers Association Manager of the Year. He is also on the committee for the League Managers Association in an executive capacity.

Moyes made over 540 league appearances as a centre-back in a playing career that began with Celtic, where he won a championship medal. He then played for Cambridge United, Bristol City, Shrewsbury Town, and Dunfermline Athletic before ending his playing career with Preston North End. He became a coach at Preston, working his way up to assistant manager before eventually taking over as manager in 1998, his first managerial position. Moyes led Preston to the Division Two title in 1999–2000 and the Division One play-off final the following season.

Moyes took over from Walter Smith as manager of Everton in March 2002. Under him, the club managed a fourth-place finish in the league in 2004–05, their highest finish since 1988, and played in the qualifying rounds for the UEFA Champions League the following season, the first time they had taken part in UEFA's most prestigious cup competition since 1970–71. Moyes also led Everton to a runners-up finish in the 2008–09 FA Cup, their best performance in the competition since winning it in 1995. Everton consistently finished between fifth and eighth in the league under Moyes, and at the time of his departure, he was the longest-serving current manager in the league behind Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsène Wenger, at 11 years and 3 months.

Moyes succeeded Ferguson as manager of Manchester United in June 2013, but with the club in seventh place in the league in April 2014 and unable to qualify for European competition, he was sacked after 10 months in the job. Moyes was appointed as head coach of Spanish club Real Sociedad in November 2014, but was again sacked after just under a year in charge. In July 2016, he replaced Sam Allardyce as manager of Sunderland, but resigned at the end of the 2016–17 season after the club was relegated to the EFL Championship.

Moyes was appointed manager of West Ham in November 2017 and led the club out of the relegation zone to a 13th-place finish, but left at the end of the season when his contract was not renewed. He was appointed at West Ham for a second time in December 2019, following the sacking of Manuel Pellegrini. During his second stint, West Ham achieved two consecutive top-seven finishes in the Premier League, before victory in the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League, beating Fiorentina in the final to achieve the club's first major silverware in 43 years. Moyes left West Ham at the end of the 2023–24 season.

  1. ^ a b c Hugman, Barry J., ed. (1998). The 1998–99 Official PFA Footballers Factfile. Harpenden: Queen Anne Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-1-85291-588-9.
  2. ^ "Moyes on a mission". UEFA. 8 August 2005. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  3. ^ David Moyes at Soccerbase