Adam Owen

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Adam Owen
Personal information
Date of birth (1980-09-05) 5 September 1980 (age 43)
Place of birth Wrexham, Wales
Position(s) Defender/Midfielder
Youth career
Wrexham
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1996–1999 Wrexham
1999–2000 Newtown
2001–2002 Connah's Quay
2002–2003 Cefn Druids
2004–2005 East Stirlingshire
Managerial career
2003–2006 Celtic (Performance)
2006–2007 Sheffield Wednesday (Assistant)
2007–2013 Rangers (Performance Director)
2008–2018 Wales (Assistant)
2013–2014 Sheffield Utd (Assistant)
2014–2017 Servette FC (Assistant)
2017–2018 Lechia Gdańsk (Head Coach)
2018–2019 Hebei China Fortune F.C. (Performance Director)
2019-2021 Seattle Sounders FC (Performance Director)
2022–2023 Hibernian (Assistant)
2021–2024 Lech Poznań (Technical Advisor)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Adam Owen Ph.D (born 5 September 1980) is a Welsh UEFA PRO Licence football coach, high-performance expert and former player.

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Playing career

Owen was born and raised in Wrexham, North Wales. He signed as a professional player for Wrexham upon leaving school at the age of 16. After a loan spells at Newtown in the Welsh Premier League, he played for various clubs in the Welsh Premier League such as Connah's Quay and Cefn Druids. He also played for Scottish club East Stirlingshire during the 2005–06, season making 13 league appearances in the Scottish Football League. [1] Owen represented Wales at University level, playing against England and Scotland in the British University Games. He attained a Ph.D. in Sport and Exercise Science & Coaching from the Université de Lyon, France.

Coaching career

Owen started his coaching career at Wrexham whilst still playing. Upon leaving Wrexham, he joined Scottish club Celtic. Following a two-year period working at Celtic Park under Martin O'Neill & Gordon Strachan as Fitness Coach and Youth Academy Coach, at the age of 25 years old Owen joined Paul Sturrock's management team at Sheffield Wednesday where he remained for 12 months in the English Championship, also working under Brian Laws. During his time at Hillsborough, Owen was approached and accepted the 'Head of Performance' position at Rangers. [2] During his time at Rangers the club experienced success domestically winning the SPL League Championship, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup on several occasions, also being involved in several UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup campaigns culminating in the 2008 UEFA Cup Final in Manchester.

Following nearly seven years at Rangers, he moved to English club Sheffield United in May 2013 to take up the dual role of Assistant Manager and Performance Director. [3] After 12 months in Sheffield, in the summer of 2014 Owen left to join Swiss club Servette on a three-year contract adding a promotion and league championship at his time with the club.

After seeing out his contract with Servette, Owen joined Polish Ekstraklasa club Lechia Gdańsk at the end of June 2017. [4] He left his position in March 2018 citing a change of club philosophy as the reason, but stated the chance to manage such a big club at a young age was an incredible experience and one he was immensely proud of. [5]

Following Lechia Gdańsk Owen again joined up with Chris Coleman signing a two-year contract as his assistant coach in Hebei China Fortune FC in the Chinese Super League, with Hebei CCFC narrowly missing out on the Asian Champions League places having risen through the league. During this period Owen worked with players such as Gervinho, Ezequiel Lavezzi, and Javier Mascherano. In the January 2020, it was announced that having been approached, Owen accepted the dual-role as High-Performance & Technical Advisor with the Major League Soccer 2019 Champions Seattle Sounders FC. During this period Seattle Sounders were Western Conference Champions & finalists in the 2020 MLS Cup. [6] Upon resigning his position to return to Europe due to the pandemic situation he moved directly into a Technical Advisor role with European club Lech Poznań, and in his first season the club were successful in winning the Ekstraklasa 2021-22 league championship and qualifying for the UEFA Champions league.

In June 2022 he joined Scottish club Hibernian as assistant manager, whilst maintaining his role as Technical Advisor with Lech Poznań [7] . Owen left Hibernian in August 2023 after helping the club to a 5th place SPL league position, and qualifying for the UEFA Europa Conference League in order to resume his Technical role with Polish giants Lech Poznań. [8] .

International work

Owen was a part of the Wales management staff from August 2009 until March 2018 initially working under both Brian Flynn and Gary Speed. He was part of Chris Coleman's successful 2016 European Championships management staff reaching the semi-final stage versus Portugal. He remained in the Wales backroom team under new manager Ryan Giggs but left his position following their 2018 China Cup Final appearance versus Uruguay.

Additional

Apart from his main coaching and performance positions, Owen held a coaching consultancy role with Portuguese club Benfica as a 'Director of Research' within the famed SL Benfica generating significant amounts of 'football science research' which is still evident throughout the clubs methodology. [9] Adam has amassed over 100+ publications and book chapters in the area of 'Football Coaching Science'. Owen is author of 3 best selling books in the area of 'Football Science & Performance Coaching'. [10]

Owen also holds positions as an Associate Researcher role with Université de Lyon in France, and Associate Professor for Wrexham University whilst working as a high-performance & elite coach educator for numerous UEFA member associations including the England Football Association.

Honours

Coaching

Club

Rangers
Servette
Seattle Sounders
Lech Poznań

International

Wales

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  2. ↑ "Sounders FC hires Adam Owen as High Performance Director & Technical Advisor". soundersfc.com. 11 June 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  3. ↑ "Weir recruits assistant". Sheffield United FC. 21 June 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "Wales - A.Owen". Soccerway. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "Adam Owen: Wales fitness coach on eight months as a Polish top-flight boss". BBC Sport. 21 March 2018.
  6. ↑ "Adam Owen interview: Seattle Sounders role for best British coach you might not have heard of". Sky Sports. 7 July 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  7. ↑ "Lee Johnson Confirms His Hibernian Backroom Team". www.hibernianfc.co.uk. Hibernian FC. 5 June 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  8. ↑ "Lee Johnson: Hibs sack manager after 'disappointing start to domestic campaign'". BBC Sport. 27 August 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  9. ↑ "Informações sobre o Benfica LAB". www.slbenfica.pt.
  10. ↑ "Football Conditioning: A Modern Scientific Approach - Periodization - Seasonal Training - Small Sided Games". SoccerTutor.com.
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