Mick Harford

Mick Harford

Harford in 2009
Personal information
Full name	Michael Gordon Harford
Date of birth	(1959-02-12) 12 February 1959 (age 65)
Place of birth	Sunderland, England
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)[1]
Position(s)	Striker, Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Luton Town (Chief recruitment officer)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1977–1980	Lincoln City	115	(41)
1980–1981	Newcastle United	19	(4)
1981–1982	Bristol City	30	(11)
1982–1984	Birmingham City	92	(25)
1984–1990	Luton Town	139	(57)
1990–1991	Derby County	58	(15)
1991–1992	Luton Town	29	(12)
1992–1993	Chelsea	28	(9)
1993	Sunderland	11	(2)
1993–1994	Coventry City	1	(1)
1994–1998	Wimbledon	60	(9)
Total		582	(186)
International career
1988	England	2	(0)
Managerial career
2004–2005	Nottingham Forest (caretaker)
2005	Rotherham United
2007	Queens Park Rangers (caretaker)
2008–2009	Luton Town
2010	Queens Park Rangers (caretaker)
2019	Luton Town
2022	Luton Town (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Michael Gordon Harford (born 12 February 1959) is an English football manager and former professional player. He is the chief recruitment officer at Luton Town, a club where he has spent a large portion of both his playing and non-playing career. In addition to two separate spells as a player at Luton, including as part of the team that won the League Cup in 1988, Harford has been the club's director of football, first-team coach and manager; the latter role saw him lead Luton to victory in the Football League Trophy in 2009 and win League One in a separate spell in 2018–19.

Harford began his career in 1977 with Lincoln City, later moving to Newcastle United and Bristol City. He moved to First Division side Birmingham City in 1982 and thereafter spent 16 seasons playing in the top division of English football for a number of clubs including Luton, Derby County, Chelsea, hometown club Sunderland, Coventry City and Wimbledon. During his time at Luton, Harford was capped twice by England. In total, Harford's transfer fees over his playing career amounted to over £2.25 million.

As well as his non-playing roles at Luton, Harford was manager of Rotherham United in 2005 and has been caretaker manager of both Nottingham Forest and Queens Park Rangers. He has also held assistant manager positions at Colchester United, MK Dons and Millwall, and coaching roles at Wimbledon and Swindon Town.