Ian Pearce

This article is about the English association football coach. For the Australian rugby league footballer, see Ian Pearce (rugby league).

Ian Pearce
Personal information
Full name Ian Anthony Pearce[1]
Date of birth (1974-05-07) 7 May 1974 (age 50)[1]
Place of birth Bury St Edmunds, England[1]
Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)[2]
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 West Bromwich Albion
(Head of Recruitment)
Youth career
Oxted & District
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1993 Chelsea 4 (0)
1993–1997 Blackburn Rovers 63 (2)
1997–2004 West Ham United 142 (9)
2004–2008 Fulham 57 (1)
2008 → Southampton (loan) 1 (0)
2008–2009 Oxted & District
2009 Kingstonian 1 (0)
2009–2010 Lincoln City 14 (0)
2011–2012 Kingstonian 3 (0)
Total 285 (12)
International career
England U20
1995 England U21 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ian Anthony Pearce (born 7 May 1974) is an English football coach and former professional footballer who is the head of recruitment at West Bromwich Albion.

As a player he was defender from 1990 until 2012, notably in the Premier League for Blackburn Rovers where he won the title in 1995. He also played top flight football for Chelsea, West Ham United and Fulham. He played in the Football League for Southampton and Lincoln City, as well as for non-league sides Oxted & District, Kingstonian and Lingfield. He was capped three times by the England U21 team in 1995.

Since retiring he has since worked on the coaching staff at Lincoln City and worked as a scout for Brighton & Hove Albion before taking up his current role with West Brom.

  1. ^ a b c "Ian Pearce". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  2. ^ Chalk, Gary; Holley, Duncan; Bull, David (2013). All the Saints: A Complete Players' Who's Who of Southampton FC. Southampton: Hagiology Publishing. p. 429. ISBN 978-0-9926-8640-6.