Neil Banfield

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Neil Banfield
Personal information
Full name Neil Anthony Banfield [1]
Date of birth (1962-01-20) 20 January 1962 (age 62) [1]
Place of birth Poplar, London, England [1]
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Wealdstone (assistant manager)
Youth career
1978–1980 Crystal Palace
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1979–1981 Crystal Palace 3 (0)
1981–1983 Adelaide City 50 (2)
1983–1985 Leyton Orient 31 (0)
International career
England Schoolboys
England U18
Managerial career
1992–1997 Charlton Athletic (head youth coach)
1997–2004 Arsenal Academy
2004–2012 Arsenal Reserves
2012–2018 Arsenal (first team coach) [2]
2019–2022 Queens Park Rangers (first team coach) [2]
2022–2023 Rangers (assistant coach)
2024– Wealdstone (assistant manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Neil Banfield (born 20 January 1962) is an English professional football coach and former player. He is currently assistant manager of Wealdstone.

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Banfield played in the Football League for Crystal Palace and Leyton Orient. He became a coach at Charlton Athletic, before moving to Arsenal as a youth coach. In 2012, Banfield was appointed first-team coach under Arsène Wenger at Arsenal, then moved to Queens Park Rangers.

Playing career

Club

Banfield was born on 20 January 1962 in Poplar, London. [3] He played district and England schoolboy and youth football and joined Crystal Palace as an apprentice in August 1979, with whom he won the 1978 FA Youth Cup in a 1–0 victory over Aston Villa. [3] [4] He made only three first team appearances for Palace and in 1981, joined Australian side Adelaide City for two seasons. [3] In December 1983, he moved to Leyton Orient, making 31 league appearances in two seasons before joining Dagenham and Redbridge in May 1985. [3] [5]

International

Banfield was an England schoolboy international, and was a member of the England team that won the 1980 UEFA European Under-18 Championship. [2]

Managerial career

After his retirement he became a coach. He started his coaching career with Charlton Athletic with whom he spent five years as the head coach at the club's academy. [6] Banfield then joined Arsenal in 1997. Banfield went on to coach Arsenal's academy teams with whom he won two FA Youth Cups, an FA Premier Academy League U17 title in 1999–2000 and an U19 League title in 2001–02. He then succeeded Eddie Niedzwiecki as the coach of Arsenal Reserves after the former's departure for Blackburn Rovers in September 2004. [7]

Banfield also served under Don Givens as the assistant manager of the Republic of Ireland U21 team. He held this post from April 2004 to May of the following year. On 24 May 2012, Banfield took up the position of first-team coach for Arsenal, [8] [5] a role he held until 2018.

On 14 May 2019, Banfield was appointed first-team coach at Queens Park Rangers [9] On 28 November 2022, Banfield joined Michael Beale in moving to Rangers. [10]

In January 2024, Banfield was appointed assistant manager of National League club Wealdstone. [11]

Honours

Club

Crystal Palace [4]

Country

England U18

Managerial career

Arsenal Youth [7]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "Sometimes I have to pinch myself". Arsenal F.C. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Kaufman, Neilson N; Ravenhill, Alan E (2002). The Men Who Made Leyton Orient Football Club. Tempus Publishing. p. 27. ISBN   0752424122.
  4. 1 2 Mike Purkiss & Nigel Sands (1990). Crystal Palace: A Complete Record 1905–1989. p. 72. ISBN   0907969542.
  5. 1 2 "Neil Banfield". Arsenal F.C. 2014. Archived from the original on 1 October 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  6. ↑ McIntyre, David (19 March 2020). "Banfield: The Rangers can thrive even after star players move on". West London Sport. Retrieved 2 October 2020. Banfield, who spent five years as Charlton's head youth coach before joining Arsenal in 1997...
  7. 1 2 Greenwood, Mark (11 February 2010). "Football's unsung heroes – Arsenal's Neil Banfield". Football Fancast.com. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  8. ↑ "Bould and Banfield join first-team staff". Arsenal F.C. 24 May 2012. Archived from the original on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
  9. ↑ "Mark Warburton adds Neil Banfield to backroom team". Queens Park Rangers F.C. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  10. ↑ "RANGERS CONFIRM MICHAEL BEALE AS MANAGER". Rangers.co.uk. Rangers Football Club. 28 November 2022.
  11. ↑ "New Manager: David Noble". www.wealdstone-fc.com. 26 January 2024. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
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