David Oldfield (footballer)

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David Oldfield

Personal information
Full name	David Charles Oldfield
Date of birth	(1968-05-30) 30 May 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth	Perth, Australia
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Stoke Goldington, Almondsbury Rangers
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1986–1989	Luton Town	39	(8)
1989–1990	Manchester City	30	(9)
1990–1995	Leicester City	221	(32)
1995	→ Millwall (loan)	17	(6)
1995–1998	Luton Town	140	(24)
1998–2000	Stoke City	74	(7)
2000–2002	Peterborough United	97	(5)
2002–2004	Oxford United	37	(3)
2005–2007	Stafford Rangers	22	(0)
2007	Tamworth	1	(0)
2007–2008	Brackley Town	0	(0)
Total		678	(94)
International career
1988	England U21	1	(0)
Managerial career
2005	Oxford United (caretaker manager)
2007–2008	Brackley Town
2011	Peterborough United (caretaker manager)
2018	Peterborough United (caretaker manager)
2020–2022	Oxford City
2022	Weymouth
2025–	Exeter City (First Team Coach and Under 18's Manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David Charles Oldfield (born 30 May 1968) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently first team coach and Under 18's lead at EFL League One Club Exeter City.

Playing career

Born in Australia, Oldfield moved to England with his family at a young age. He began playing football as a boy for North Buckinghamshire village side Stoke Goldington, before being spotted by league outfit Luton Town in 1986, where he played 29 league games over the next three years, scoring four goals. While at Luton he received a callup to the England under-21 squad in March 1988. ^[1]

Oldfield moved to Manchester City for a fee of £600,000 in March 1989, choosing to join City ahead of West Ham United. ^[2] At City, Oldfield formed part of the squad that gained promotion to the First Division in 1988–89. Though Oldfield was at Maine Road for less than a year, he is fondly remembered for his two goals in the Manchester derby against local rivals United in September 1989 when City triumphed 5–1. Mel Machin, the manager who signed Oldfield for City, was sacked in November 1989. Less than a month after Howard Kendall was appointed as Machin's successor, Oldfield was sold. In an exchange valued at £650,000, Oldfield headed to Leicester City, and Wayne Clarke travelled in the opposite direction. ^[3]

Oldfield stayed at Leicester for five years. He helped them win promotion to the Premier League in 1994, winning the playoffs at Wembley after losing there in the two previous seasons. He turned down a £250,000 move to Port Vale in 1994. ^[4] He then had a successful loan spell at Millwall, but the move was not made permanent and he returned to Luton Town instead. However, he was unable to prevent their relegation to Division Two in 1996 and signed for Stoke City two years later. He spent two years with Stoke before a two-year spell at Peterborough United and then a two-year spell at Oxford United before he played his last professional game in 2004. He came out of retirement the following year to sign for non-league Stafford Rangers, where he spent two years. Tamworth confirmed the signing of Oldfield on 30 November 2007. ^[5] Oldfield made his debut for the club against Leigh RMI in a 2–0 home victory on 1 December 2007, just one day after signing.

Managerial career

Oldfield was named as Oxford caretaker manager after the dismissal of Ian Atkins in March 2004 but his first game in charge was postponed due to bad weather ^[6] and Graham Rix was appointed before the next; Oldfield finally took charge of Oxford as caretaker manager for one game, a home defeat to Chester City, before the appointment of Brian Talbot in May 2005. ^[7] He left Oxford's backroom staff in 2006. ^[8]

Three days after Oldfield made his Tamworth debut, he was appointed as the new first team manager of Brackley Town on 4 December 2007, replacing Roger Ashby. ^[9] In 2008 Oldfield was appointed as Reserve Team Manager at Peterborough United, ^[10] and on 11 January 2011 he took charge of the first team for one match in between the departure of manager Gary Johnson and the appointment of Darren Ferguson as his replacement, ^[11] a 2–1 home league win over Brentford.

In July 2011, Oldfield left Peterborough to join West Bromwich Albion as a development coach. ^[12] On 12 June 2014, Oldfield joined Milton Keynes Dons as Head of Academy Coaching ^[13] He was appointed assistant manager to Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink at Burton Albion in November 2014. On 4 December 2015, Oldfield left Burton to join Hasselbaink at Queens Park Rangers. ^[14]

Towards the end of the 2016–17 season Oldfield returned to Peterborough United on a trial basis after the departure of Lee Glover. At the end of the season he was appointed as assistant manager on a permanent basis under manager Grant McCann. ^[15] He stepped in as caretaker-manager for one game in February 2018 after McCann's sacking, a 2–1 home victory over Walsall, ^[16] before Steve Evans was appointed. Oldfield left the club the following month. ^[17]

Oldfield was appointed manager of Oxford City in March 2020. ^[18]

On 18 January 2022, he moved up a division to be appointed manager of National League side Weymouth, leaving Oxford City in fourth position in the National League South table. ^[19] He left Weymouth by mutual consent on 14 September 2022

In January 2025, Oldfield was named under-18 lead coach at Exeter City. ^[20]

Career statistics

Source: ^[21]

Club	Season	League			FA Cup		League Cup		Other [A]		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Luton Town	1987–88	First Division	8	3	0	0	1	0	2	2	11	5
	1988–89	First Division	21	1	1	0	5	2	1	0	28	3
	Total		29	4	1	0	6	2	3	2	39	8
Manchester City	1988–89	Second Division	11	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	3
	1989–90	First Division	15	3	0	0	3	2	1	1	19	6
	Total		26	6	0	0	3	2	1	1	30	9
Leicester City	1989–90	Second Division	20	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	5
	1990–91	Second Division	42	7	1	0	2	0	1	0	46	7
	1991–92	Second Division	41	4	2	0	4	0	6	1	53	5
	1992–93	Division One	44	5	2	1	2	0	4	0	52	6
	1993–94	Division One	27	4	1	1	3	1	3	1	37	7
	1994–95	Premier League	14	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	16	2
	Total		188	26	7	3	12	1	14	2	221	32
Millwall (loan)	1994–95	Division One	17	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	6
Luton Town	1995–96	Division One	34	2	1	0	2	0	2	0	39	2
	1996–97	Division Two	38	6	1	0	5	2	4	3	46	11
	1997–98	Division Two	45	10	1	0	4	0	3	1	53	11
	Total		117	18	3	0	11	2	9	4	140	24
Stoke City	1998–99	Division Two	46	6	2	0	2	0	1	0	51	6
	1999–2000	Division Two	19	1	0	0	3	0	1	0	23	1
	Total		65	7	2	0	5	0	2	0	74	7
Peterborough United	1999–2000	Division Three	9	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	13	0
	2000–01	Division Two	39	3	5	1	2	0	0	0	46	4
	2001–02	Division Two	30	1	5	0	1	0	2	0	38	1
	Total		78	4	10	1	6	0	3	0	97	5
Oxford United	2002–03	Division Three	28	2	2	1	2	0	1	0	33	3
	2003–04	Division Three	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	0
	Total		31	2	2	1	3	0	1	0	37	3
Stafford Rangers	2006–07	Conference National	12	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	1
	2007–08	Conference National	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0
	Total		22	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	22	1
Career Total			573	74	25	5	46	7	33	9	677	95

A.  ^ The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the Anglo-Italian Cup, Football League Trophy, Football League play-offs and Full Members' Cup.

References

1. White, Clive (22 October 1988). "Harford's loyalty to Luton goes against the trend". The Times.
2. Ross, Ian (11 March 1989). "Oldfield moves to Manchester City". The Times.
3. Bose, Mihir (7 January 1990). "Coventry and Spurs fall foul of their Cup curse". The Times.
4. Baggaley, Mike (20 November 2023). "Vale Park tour, plans and Railway questions answered". Valiant's Substack. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
5. Clayton, Dave (30 November 2007). "Another new signing". Tamworth F.C. Archived from the original on 17 April 2018. Retrieved 1 December 2007.
6. Baker, Mike (22 March 2004). "Nationwide round-up". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
7. "David Oldfield (caretaker)". Rage Online. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
8. "Talbot axed". Oxford Mail. 15 March 2006. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
9. Clayton, Dave (6 December 2007). "Latest news from the Lamb". Tamworth F.C. Retrieved 6 December 2007.
10. "Oldfield Takes Charge of Reserve Team". Peterborough United F.C. 5 March 2008. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011.
11. "Oldfield Takes Charge of Bees Fixture". Peterborough United F.C. 11 January 2011. Archived from the original on 15 January 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
12. "Oldfield leaves Posh for Albion". Sky Sports. 11 July 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
13. "Academy make Oldfield appointment" (Press release). Milton Keynes Dons F.C. 12 June 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
14. "Former Potter David Oldfield named as Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's assistant at Burton Albion". Stoke Sentinel. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
15. "David Oldfield: Peterborough United appoint assistant manager after trial". BBC Sport. 19 May 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
16. "Peterborough United 2–1 Walsall". BBC Sport. 27 February 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
17. "David Oldfield: Peterborough United assistant manager leaves club". BBC Sport. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
18. "OLDFIELD APPOINTED NEW OXFORD CITY MANAGER". Oxford City F.C. 6 March 2020. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
19. "Weymouth appoint Oxford City boss David Oldfield as manager". The Non-League Paper . 18 January 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
20. "David Oldfield appointed as new under-18 lead coach!". www.exetercityfc.co.uk. 14 January 2025. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
21. David Oldfield at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)

External links

• David Oldfield at Soccerbase