Alan Pardew

Alan Pardew
Pardew in 2012
Personal information
Full name Alan Scott Pardew[1]
Date of birth (1961-07-18) 18 July 1961 (age 63)[1]
Place of birth Wimbledon, England
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1981 Whyteleafe
1981–1983 Epsom & Ewell
1983–1984 Corinthian-Casuals
1984–1986 Dulwich Hamlet
1986–1987 Yeovil Town
1987–1991 Crystal Palace 128 (8)
1991–1995 Charlton Athletic 104 (24)
1995Tottenham Hotspur (loan) 0 (0)
1995–1997 Barnet 67 (0)
1997–1998 Reading 0 (0)
Total 299 (32)
Managerial career
1998 Reading (caretaker)
1999–2003 Reading
2003–2006 West Ham United
2006–2008 Charlton Athletic
2009–2010 Southampton
2010–2014 Newcastle United
2015–2016 Crystal Palace
2017–2018 West Bromwich Albion
2019–2020 ADO Den Haag
2022 CSKA Sofia
2022–2023 Aris
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alan Scott Pardew (born 18 July 1961) is an English football manager and former professional footballer, who most recently managed Greek Super League club Aris Thessaloniki.

Pardew's highest achievements in the sport include reaching the FA Cup Final three times: as a player with Crystal Palace in 1990 and as a manager with West Ham United in 2006 and in 2016 when his Crystal Palace side lost to Manchester United. He has also achieved promotion three times in his career, as a player with Palace and as a manager with Reading and West Ham. He managed Newcastle United from 2010 to 2014.

As manager of Newcastle, Pardew won both the Premier League Manager of the Season and the LMA Manager of the Year awards for the 2011–12 season after guiding the Magpies to European football for the first time since the club's return to the Premier League. He later managed Crystal Palace, West Bromwich Albion and ADO Den Haag, as well as working as a Sky Sports pundit for the 2017–18 Premier League season.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Alan Pardew". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  2. ^ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (1997). The 1997–98 Official PFA Footballers Factfile. Harpenden: Queen Anne Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-85291-581-0.
  3. ^ Bate, Adam (8 August 2017). "Alan Pardew joins Sky Sports and he cannot wait for the new season". Sky Sports. Retrieved 15 August 2017.