Mark Wright (footballer, born 1963)

For other people with the same name, see Mark Wright.

Mark Wright
Wright as manager of Chester City in 2006
Personal information
Full name Mark Wright[1]
Date of birth (1963-08-01) 1 August 1963 (age 61)[1]
Place of birth Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, England[2]
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[3]
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Southport (Head of development)[4]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1982 Oxford United 10 (0)
1982–1987 Southampton 170 (7)
1987–1991 Derby County 144 (10)
1991–1998 Liverpool 160 (5)
Total 484 (22)
International career
1983 England U21 4 (0)
1984–1996 England 45 (1)
Managerial career
2000–2001 Southport
2001 Oxford United
2002–2004 Chester City
2005–2006 Peterborough United
2006–2007 Chester City
2008–2009 Chester City
2012 Floriana
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mark Wright (born 1 August 1963) is an English football manager and former player.

As a player, he had spells with Liverpool, Derby County, Southampton and Oxford United during the 1980s and 1990s. He made 45 appearances for the England national team, and was a member of the team which reached the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup in 1990.[5] At club level, the central defender won the 1992 FA Cup final as captain of Liverpool.[6]

Since retiring as a player in 1998, Wright has worked as a football manager, pundit, and businessman. He has had three stints as manager of Chester City, during the first of which he led the club back into the Football League as Football Conference champions after a four-year exile. He has also had spells managing Peterborough United, Oxford United and Southport.

He is a regular pundit on LFC TV, Liverpool's official TV channel, and uses his experience as a foster carer and ambassador to advocate for more people to help children in need.[7]

Along with Michael Owen, another ex-Liverpool and England player, Wright is a founder of Red Sports, a Liverpool-based company that specialises in soccer school and coaching education programmes in China.[8]

Wright also founded Premier Legends, a company that gives fans around the world the chance to join ex-England and Premier League players for stadium tours, exhibition games, golf outings, dinners and audience Q+A sessions.[9]

  1. ^ a b "Mark Wright". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  2. ^ Goodwin, Chris; Isherwood, Glen (11 October 2020). "England Players: Mark Wright". England Football Online. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  3. ^ Chalk, Gary; Holley, Duncan; Bull, David (2013). All the Saints: A Complete Players' Who's Who of Southampton FC. Southampton: Hagiology Publishing. p. 512. ISBN 978-0-9926-8640-6.
  4. ^ Mark Wright: Former Liverpool captain returns to Southport‚ bbc.com, 23 May 2017
  5. ^ Mark Wright Statistics FIFA. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  6. ^ "Kop 10 cup lifting captains". Archived from the original on 24 May 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2017. Phil Reade, Liverpool News. 7 March. Retrieved 13 January 2017
  7. ^ "Mark Wright: Why you should foster". Liverpool News. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2017
  8. ^ "Red Sports". Red Sports. Retrieved 2 February 2017
  9. ^ "Premier Legends". Premier Legends. Retrieved 2 February 2017