 Pugh playing for Stoke City in May 2009 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Daniel Adam Pugh[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 19 October 1982[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Cheadle Hulme, England[2] | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[3] | ||
| Position(s) |
Midfielder Left-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1992–2000 | Manchester United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000–2004 | Manchester United | 1 | (0) |
| 2004–2006 | Leeds United | 50 | (5) |
| 2006–2008 | Preston North End | 52 | (4) |
| 2007–2008 | → Stoke City (loan) | 14 | (0) |
| 2008–2012 | Stoke City | 53 | (1) |
| 2010 | → Preston North End (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | → Leeds United (loan) | 17 | (2) |
| 2012–2014 | Leeds United | 41 | (1) |
| 2013 | → Sheffield Wednesday (loan) | 16 | (1) |
| 2014–2015 | Coventry City | 5 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Bury | 39 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | Blackpool | 18 | (0) |
| 2017–2020 | Port Vale | 48 | (2) |
| 2021–2022 | Hanley Town | 9 | (1) |
| Total | 368 | (18) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2019 | Port Vale (caretaker) | ||
| 2021 | Port Vale (caretaker) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Daniel Adam Pugh (born 19 October 1982) is an English professional football coach and former player.
A versatile player, he could play in midfield or at left-back. He began his career with Manchester United and made a handful of first-team appearances before being transferred to Leeds United in May 2004. He spent two seasons at Elland Road before joining Preston North End for a fee of £250,000 in June 2006. Another two-year spell followed until he joined Stoke City for £500,000 in January after a short loan period. He became a regular under Tony Pulis and helped the club to gain promotion out of the Championship in 2007–08. He appeared in the 2011 FA Cup final. However, he struggled to hold down a regular place in the Premier League and had loan spells back at Preston and then Leeds before joining Leeds permanently for a second time in January 2012.
He made 62 appearances in his second spell at Leeds and played on loan at Sheffield Wednesday in the 2012–13 season. He left Leeds and went on to spend the 2014–15 season with Coventry City, the 2015–16 campaign at Bury, before moving on to Blackpool in July 2016. He signed with Port Vale in January 2017 and was appointed as a first-team coach in September 2018. He became Vale's caretaker manager in January 2019 and January 2021.
- ^ a b Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2009). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2009–10. Mainstream Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84596-474-0.
- ^ "leeds-fans.org.uk: Leeds United Player Profile: Danny Pugh". leeds-fans.org.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
- ^ Rollin, Glenda; Rollin, Jack, eds. (2009). Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2009–2010. Headline. p. 539. ISBN 978-0-7553-1948-0.