Dean Holden

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Dean Holden
Personal information
Full name:	Dean Thomas John Holden
Date of birth:	15 September 1979 (1979-09-15)
Place of birth:	Swinton, England
Height:	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position:	Right back
Club information
Current club	Charlton Athletic (manager)
Senior clubs
Years	Club	App (Gls)
1998–2002 2001 2001–2002 2002–2005 2005–2007 2007–2009 2009–2011 2010 2011–2012 2011–2012 2012 2012–2014 Total	Bolton Wanderers → Valur (loan) → Oldham Athletic (loan) Oldham Athletic Peterborough United Falkirk Shrewsbury Town → Rotherham United (loan) Chesterfield → Rochdale (loan) Rochdale Walsall	013 00(1) 007 00(0) 023 00(2) 085 00(8) 056 00(4) 048 00(2) 050 00(0) 006 00(0) 031 00(3) 007 00(0) 014 00(0) 029 00(2) 369 0(22)
Teams managed
2015 2020–2021 2022 2022–	Oldham Athletic Bristol City Stoke City Charlton Athletic

Dean Thomas John Holden (born 15 September 1979) is an English manager who is currently the manager of League One club Charlton Athletic.

During a career which began at Bolton Wanderers in 1998 and ended with a two-year stint at Walsall from 2012 to 2014, Holden was a defender who was comfortable playing at right-back and centre-back. Over that sixteen-year period, he amassed 369 league appearances in representing ten clubs, scoring 22 goals. He moved in to coaching with Oldham Athletic in November 2014 and spent time as manager from February 2015 until May 2015. Holden joined Bristol City in November 2016 as assistant manager to Lee Johnson. Following Johnson's departure on 4 July 2020, Holden was placed in caretaker charge before been given the role on a permanent basis. He was sacked by Bristol City in February 2021. In April 2021 Holden joined Stoke City as assistant manager.

External links

• Dean Holden profile at Soccerbase
• Profile at UpThePosh! The Peterborough United Database