| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Robert Keith Stockdale[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 30 November 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Redcar, England | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team |
Barrow (assistant head coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1994–1997 | Middlesbrough | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1997–2004 | Middlesbrough | 75 | (2) |
| 2000 | → Sheffield Wednesday (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | → West Ham United (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 2004 | → Rotherham United (loan) | 16 | (1) |
| 2004–2005 | Rotherham United | 27 | (0) |
| 2005–2006 | Hull City | 14 | (0) |
| 2006 | → Darlington (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2006–2008 | Tranmere Rovers | 80 | (0) |
| 2008–2012 | Grimsby Town | 29 | (0) |
| Total | 257 | (3) | |
| International career | |||
| 2000 | England U21 | 1 | (0) |
| 2002 | Scotland | 5 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2011 | Grimsby Town (joint caretaker) | ||
| 2015 | Sunderland (caretaker) | ||
| 2017 | Sunderland (caretaker) | ||
| 2018 | Sunderland (caretaker) | ||
| 2021–2022 | Rochdale | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:11, 11 July 2021(UTC) | |||
Robert Keith Stockdale (born 30 November 1979) is a football manager and former professional footballer who is assistant manager of EFL League Two club Barrow.
As a player, he was a defender from 1997 to 2012. He notably played Premier League football for Middlesbrough having also appeared as a professional for Sheffield Wednesday, West Ham United, Rotherham United, Hull City, Darlington and Tranmere Rovers before joining Grimsby Town in 2008. Stockdale won five international caps for Scotland, all in 2002.
Towards the end of his playing career, he became Grimsby's youth team manager and briefly served as caretaker manager. He held this position until 2012 where he took up a similar role with Sunderland. He subsequently moved up to coaching the first team and managed the club three times on a caretaker basis, before he left Sunderland in 2018. He has since worked as a coach for Hibernian and West Bromwich Albion. In 2021 he took over his first full time managerial position with Rochdale, he was dismissed on 18 August 2022.