Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert
Lambert managing Aston Villa in 2013
Personal information
Full name Paul Lambert[1]
Date of birth (1969-08-07) 7 August 1969 (age 54)
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.81 m)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1985–1986 St Mirren
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1986–1993 St Mirren 227 (14)
1993–1996 Motherwell 103 (6)
1996–1997 Borussia Dortmund 44 (1)
1997–2005 Celtic 193 (14)
2005–2006 Livingston 7 (0)
Total 574 (35)
International career
1990 Scottish League XI 1 (0)
1991–1992 Scotland U21 5 (2)
1995–1996 Scotland B 2 (0)
1995–2003 Scotland 40 (1)
Managerial career
2005–2006 Livingston
2006–2008 Wycombe Wanderers
2008–2009 Colchester United
2009–2012 Norwich City
2012–2015 Aston Villa
2015–2016 Blackburn Rovers
2016–2017 Wolverhampton Wanderers
2018 Stoke City
2018–2021 Ipswich Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Paul Lambert (born 7 August 1969) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player, who was most recently the manager of Ipswich Town.

Lambert played as a midfielder and won the Scottish Cup in 1987 with St Mirren as a 17-year-old, the UEFA Champions League with Borussia Dortmund and all the Scottish domestic honours with Celtic. In his international career, Lambert earned 40 caps for Scotland and played in the 1998 FIFA World Cup finals.

Lambert achieved success managing in England's lower divisions and guided Norwich City into English football's Premier League with successive promotions in 2009–10 and 2010–11. After keeping Norwich in the Premier League in 2011–12, he managed Aston Villa for three seasons. Lambert was appointed Blackburn Rovers manager in November 2015, before leaving the club in May 2016. Lambert became head coach of Wolverhampton Wanderers in November 2016 but was dismissed at the end of the season.[3]

Lambert was appointed manager of Stoke City in January 2018, but he was unable to prevent relegation to the Championship and left the club soon afterwards. Lambert became manager of Ipswich Town in October 2018, but he was unable to prevent relegation to League One, and later left the club in February 2021 after failing to mount a promotion challenge.

  1. ^ The Bell's Scottish Football Review 2005/06. Cre8 Publishing. 2005. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-95485-561-1.
  2. ^ "Paul Lambert". Goal.com. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Paul Lambert departs Wolves". Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. 30 May 2017.