- For the Leicester City and Brentford player, see Dean Smith (born 1958).
| General |
| Dean Smith | ||
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name: | Dean Smith | |
| Date of birth: | 19 March 1971 | |
| Place of birth: | West Bromwich,  England
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| Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |
| Playing position: | Centre back | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | 
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| Senior clubs | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls) |
| 1989–1994 1994–1997 1997–2003 2003–2004 2004–2005 Total |
Walsall Hereford United Leyton Orient Sheffield Wednesday Port Vale |
142 (2) 117 (19) 239 (32) 55 (1) 13 (0) 566 (54) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 2011–2015 2015–2018 2018–2021 2021–2022 2023 |
Walsall Brentford Aston Villa Norwich City Leicester City
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Dean Smith (born 19 March 1971) is an English professional football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of Premier League club Leicester City.
Starting his playing career with Walsall in 1989, over the course of five years he played 166 league and cup games. Signing with Hereford United in 1994, three years and 146 appearances later he moved on to Leyton Orient. In six years with Orient he made 309 appearances in all competitions, before earning a move to Sheffield Wednesday in 2003. After a season with Wednesday he moved on to Port Vale, retiring in January 2005. He scored 54 goals in 566 league games in a 16-year career in the Football League.
Returning to Leyton Orient, he worked as assistant manager until January 2009. In July 2009, he was appointed as Head of Youth at Walsall, before taking the management reins in January 2011. He took Walsall from relegation certainties to safety in his first four months in charge. He took Walsall to the 2015 final of the Football League Trophy, before leaving the club to manage Brentford in November 2015.
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Bowman (1905–07) • McEwen (1907–08) • Turner (1909–10) • Stansfield (1910–15) • Buckley (1919–20) • O'Hagan (1920–21) • Gosnell (1921–26) • Stansfield (1926) • Potter (1926–29) • Kerr (1929–33) • Parker (1933–37) • Young (1937–38) • Jewell (1939) • Young (1939–45) • Lochhead (1945–46) • Spiers (1946–47) • Lochhead (1947–50) • Low (1950–55) • Parker (1955–57) • Macaulay (1957–61) • Reid (1961–62) • Swindin (1962) • Ashman (1962–1966) • Morgan (1966–69) • Saunders (1969–73) • Bond (1973–80) • Brown (1980–87) • Stringer (1987–92) • Williams (1992) • Walker (1992–94) • Deehan (1994–95) • O'Neill (1995) • Franklin (1995) • Megson (1995–96) • Walker (1996–98) • Faulkner (1998) • Rioch (1998–2000) • Hamilton (2000) • Worthington (2000–06) • Hunter (2006) • Grant (2006–07) • Duffy (2007) • Roeder (2007–09) • Gunn (2009) • Butterworth (2009) • Lambert (2009–12) • Hughton (2012–14) • Adams (2014–15) • Neil (2015–2017) • Irvine (17) • Farke (2017–2021) • Smith (2021–22) • Wagner (2023–24) • Thorup (2024–) |
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Gardner (1884–92) • Marson (1892–94) • Lee (1884–92) • Jackson (1895–97) • Clark (1897–98) • Johnson (1897–1912) • Bartlett (1912–14) • Ford (1914–15) • Linney (1915–19) • Hodge (1919–26) • Orr (1926–32) • Hodge (1932–34) • Lochhead (1934–36) • Womack (1936–39) • Bromilow (1939–45) • Mather (1945–46) • Duncan (1946–49) • Bullock (1949–55) • Halliday (1955–58) • Gillies (1958–68) • O'Farrell (1968–71) • Bloomfield (1971–77) • McLintock (1977–78) • Wallace (1978–82) • Milne (1982–86) • Hamilton (1986–87) • Pleat (1987–91) • Little (1991–94) • McGhee (1994–95) • O'Neill (1995–2000) • Taylor (2000–01) • Bassett (2001–02) • Adams (2002–04) • Levein (2004–06) • Kelly (2006–07) • Worthington (2007) • Allen (2007) • Megson (2007) • Holloway (2007–08) • Pearson (2008–10) • Sousa (2010) • Eriksson (2010–11) • Pearson (2011–15) • Ranieri (2015–17) • Shakespeare (2017) • Appletonc (2017) • Puel (2017–19) • Stowell & Sadlerc (2019) • Rodgers (2019–23) • Maresca (2023–24) • Cooper (2024) • van Nistelrooy (2024–) |
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