Eddie Niedzwiecki

Eddie Niedzwiecki
Personal information
Full name Andrzej Edward Niedzwiecki
Date of birth (1959-05-03) 3 May 1959 (age 65)
Place of birth Bangor, Wales
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1977–1983 Wrexham 111 (0)
1983–1988 Chelsea 136 (0)
Total 247 (0)
International career
1985–1987 Wales 2 (0)
Managerial career
1991 Reading (caretaker)
2012 Queens Park Rangers (caretaker)
2018 Stoke City (caretaker)
2019–2020 Reading (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Andrzej Edward Niedzwiecki (born 3 May 1959) is a Welsh-Polish football coach and former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

After retiring early due to injury Niedzwiecki became a coach with Chelsea and then Arsenal before working alongside Mark Hughes with the Wales national team. Since then he has worked with Hughes at Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Fulham, Queens Park Rangers, Stoke City and Southampton.

  1. ^ Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5.