.jpg) Parker with AFC Bournemouth in 2021 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Scott Matthew Parker[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 13 October 1980[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Lambeth, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[3] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Burnley (head coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1990–1997 | Charlton Athletic | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1997–2004 | Charlton Athletic | 128 | (9) |
| 2000 | → Norwich City (loan) | 6 | (1) |
| 2004–2005 | Chelsea | 15 | (1) |
| 2005–2007 | Newcastle United | 55 | (4) |
| 2007–2011 | West Ham United | 113 | (10) |
| 2011–2013 | Tottenham Hotspur | 50 | (0) |
| 2013–2017 | Fulham | 119 | (6) |
| Total | 486 | (31) | |
| International career | |||
| 1996–1997 | England U16 | 7 | (2) |
| 1998–1999 | England U19 | 4 | (1) |
| 2000–2002 | England U21 | 11 | (0) |
| 2003–2013 | England | 18 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2019–2021 | Fulham | ||
| 2021–2022 | AFC Bournemouth | ||
| 2022–2023 | Club Brugge | ||
| 2024– | Burnley | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Scott Matthew Parker (born 13 October 1980) is an English professional football coach and former player who is head coach of EFL Championship club Burnley.
Parker began his career at Charlton Athletic, and was loaned to Norwich City, before joining Chelsea for a £10 million fee in January 2004. He did not play regularly at Chelsea, and moved to Newcastle United the following year, where he was made captain. Parker joined West Ham United in 2007, and was the FWA Footballer of the Year for the 2010–11 season despite the club being relegated. He was then signed by Tottenham Hotspur and joined Fulham in 2013. He would play 119 league matches for Fulham in both the Premier League and the Championship, before retiring at the end of the 2016–17 season.
Parker has represented England at every level from under-16 to senior, making his full debut in 2003. Uniquely, he won his first four England caps while playing for four different clubs.[4] Parker was a member of the England team which reached the quarter-finals at UEFA Euro 2012.
Parker was appointed caretaker manager of Fulham in February 2019, and hired on a permanent basis that summer. In his first season in charge, he guided them to promotion to the Premier League after winning the Championship play-offs, but they were relegated back the following season. He then left to join AFC Bournemouth in 2021, and again won promotion from the Championship in his first season. After a 9–0 loss to Liverpool in the club's fourth league game of the season, he was dismissed, and then hired by Club Brugge, from which he was sacked after 12 games in March 2023. In July 2024 he was appointed as head coach of Burnley.
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