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| Michael Beale | ||
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name: | Michael Beale | |
| Date of birth: | 4 September 1980 | |
| Place of birth: | Bromley,  England
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| Playing position: | Left winger | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | 
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| Youth clubs | ||
| 1998–2001 2001 |
Charlton Athletic Twente
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| Teams managed | ||
| 2017 2018–2021 2021–2022 2022 2022–2023 2023–2024 |
 São Paulo (assistant) Rangers (assistant) Aston Villa (assistant) Queens Park Rangers Rangers Sunderland
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Michael Beale (born 4 September 1980) is an English football manager who was most recently head coach of Championship club Sunderland.
Beale played football as a youth, but retired at 21 and became a coach. He worked for Chelsea, Liverpool and São Paulo. After stints working as first team coach with Steven Gerrard at Rangers and Aston Villa, Beale became manager of Queens Park Rangers in June 2022. He left QPR after five months to become manager of Rangers, but was sacked from that role in October 2023.
Career[]
Beale retired from playing football at the age of just 21 after stints with Charlton Athletic, Dutch side FC Twente and clubs in the United States.
After he retired, he invested some of the money he had made during his youth career into setting up a futsal club for children in his hometown of Bromley, South London. It was while training children here that he caught the attention of Chelsea Academy boss Neil Bath . In 2002, Bath offered Beale a role as a part-time youth coach at their Cobham Training Centre. As the coach of Chelsea's Under-7s and Under-9s squads, he worked with Tammy Abraham and Dominic Solanke, who would both go on to play in the Premier League.
In 2017, Beale, a lifelong admirer of South American football, learnt Portuguese to move to Brazilian club São Paulo to act as assistant manager to Rogério Ceni, however, 6 months later, Ceni and his backroom staff were relieved of their duties. After a short time back in England working with Liverpool's youth set-up, Beale was contacted by Steven Gerrard to act as the first team coach at Scottish side Rangers. In three years in Scotland under Gerrard, Beale and Gary McAllister, Gers won their first Scottish Premiership title, preventing city rivals Celtic from winning ten in a row.
In November 2021, Beale followed Gerrard to his new role at Premier League club Aston Villa.
On 1 June 2022, Beale was appointed manager of EFL Championship side Queens Park Rangers. With QPR top of the Championship in October 2022, Beale was approached by Wolverhampton Wanderers, but apparently turned them down. On 28 November 2022, Beale accepted an approach to leave West London and return to Rangers, this time as manager.
External links[]
- Michael Beale at Transfermarkt
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