Patrick Phiri

Patrick Phiri
Personal information
Date of birth (1956-05-03) 3 May 1956 (age 68)
Place of birth Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Lumwana Radiants (Manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1973–1974 Buseko FC
1974–1975 Rokana United (21)
1975–1986 Red Arrows
Managerial career
1986–1991 Red Arrows
1992–1994 Ndeke Rangers
1995–1997 Lusaka Dynamos
1997 Mochudi Centre Chiefs
1997–2002 Nkana F.C.
2002–2003 Zambia
2003–2005 Simba
2006–2008 Zambia
2008–2011 Simba
2012 NAPSA Stars
2013–2014 Green Buffaloes
2014–2015 Simba
2015–2016 Nakambala Leopards
2016–2017 Forest Rangers
2017–2018 Lusaka Dynamos
2018–2019 Nakambala Leopards
2019– Lumwana Radiants
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Patrick Phiri (born 3 May 1956) is a Zambian football coach and former footballer. He featured for Zambian clubs Rokana United and Red Arrows as a striker and represented Zambia at the 1978 and 1982 African Cup of Nations tournaments. As a coach, Phiri led the Zambia U-20 national team to its first ever appearance at the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship in Nigeria and was voted Zambian Coach of the Year at the end of the year. He was also in charge of Zambia at the 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana and has managed ten different club sides, with three of them more than once. He is currently in charge of Nakambala Leopards in the Zambian Premier League.