Louis Lancaster (born 9 October 1981) is an English professional football coach, notable for his role as head coach of Chinese Taipei national football team[2] and coaching Jadon Sancho.[3]
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Louis Alan Lancaster[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 9 October 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Barking, England | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Wealdstone | |||
| Hertford Town | |||
| Berkhamsted | |||
| 2014 | Welwyn Garden City | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2012 | Brentford U18 | ||
| 2016 | Shanghai Shenxin (assistant) | ||
| 2017–2019 | Taiwan (assistant) | ||
| 2019 | Taiwan | ||
| 2020 | Utah Royals (assistant) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Early life
editBorn in Barking, Lancaster was raised in Hatfield in Hertfordshire. During his youth he had stints at professional academies however failed to secure a contract. Lancaster played semi-professional football for Welwyn Garden City, Hertford Town, Berkhamsted and Wealdstone.[4]
Managerial career
editLancaster holds a UEFA Pro License and an Elite Coaching License.[5] He has held coaching positions at Portsmouth and Brentford.[6] He also worked with future England international Jadon Sancho[3][7] during his time at Watford,[8][9] where he spent three seasons.
In 2011, Lancaster was selected as one of 16 coaches from the past decade to participate in the inaugural FA Elite Coaches Award delivered by Dick Bate and Alistair Smith. He went on to complete his UEFA Pro Licence in 2013 where he also completed an in-depth study on the topic of mavericks. It was on this course he met Gary White. Lancaster assisted White at Shanghai Shenxin in China League One[10] and with the Chinese Taipei national football team.[2] In their time with the National Team, they reached the nation's highest ever FIFA ranking[11] and won their first title in 49 years.[12]
Chinese Taipei national team
editLancaster was appointed the head coach of the Chinese Taipei national team on 18 January 2019, his first senior management position.[13][14]
Lancaster secured his first win charge on 11 June 2019, when Taiwan defeated Hong Kong 0–2,[15] with both goals scored by Chen Hao-wei. He was sacked in December 2019.[16]
Utah Royals
editOn 18 February 2020, Utah Royals announced that Lancaster had joined as an assistant.[17] Lancaster's time in Utah came to an end in December 2020 when it was announced that the Royals would cease operations and their player-related assets transferred to the expansion Kansas City NWSL team.[18]
Career statistics
edit| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Other | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Welwyn Garden City | 2004–05[19] | Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Hatfield Town | 2005–06[1] | Hertfordshire Senior County League Premier Division | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Hertford Town | 2007–08[20] | Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division | 16 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6[a] | 0 | 25 | 0 |
| Welwyn Garden City | 2013–14[4] | Spartan South Midlands League First Division | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Career total | 22 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 31 | 4 | ||
- ^ 2 appearances in Spartan South Midlands League Challenge Trophy 2 appearances in Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division Cup, 1 appearance in Herts Senior Cup, 1 appearance in Herts Charity Cup
References
edit- ^ a b "All Competitions : Player's Appearances – Lancaster Louis Alan". football.mitoo.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ a b "White takes helm of Taiwan soccer". Taipei Times. 18 September 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
- ^ a b "Jadon Sancho: How single-minded schoolboy made his dream a reality". BBC Sport. 29 November 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ a b "Louis Lancaster". Aylesbury United F.C. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
- ^ "How The FA Elite Coaches Award Is Helping England's Young Stars". Forbes. 25 March 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ "Louis Lancaster Departs". Official website of Brentford Football Club. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "From The Premier League To Taiwan: Meet The Globetrotting Brit Who Coached Sancho". The Sportsman. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ "Jadon Sancho: How far can he go? We've only seen 'one tenth' of his ability, says ex-youth coach". Sky Sports. 5 October 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
- ^ "How Jadon Sancho became Manchester United's no.1 transfer target and a 'future Ballon d'Or winner' inside two years". Talksport. 6 June 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ "Shanghai Shenxin chance for Welwyn Hatfield football coach". WH Times. 7 September 2017.
- ^ "Chinese Taipei at risk of losing Gareth Southgate's compatriot Gary White". Four Four Two. 1 August 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
- ^ "Former Taiwan head coach Gary White to lead HK". Taipei Times. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
- ^ "Facebook Live-Stream: Chinese Taipei announce their new Head Coach". 中華民國足球協會CTFA. 18 January 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- ^ "He moulded one of the world's best young players. Now he'll try to take down the Socceroos". Fox Sports. 14 October 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ "World Cup qualifiers: Taiwan's English boss Louis Lancaster 'positive' ahead of path to Qatar 2022". South China Morning Post. 18 July 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ Pan, Jason (1 February 2020). "FEATURE: National soccer suffers horror 2019". Taipei Times. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ "Utah Royals FC Rounds out Technical Staff with Addition of Louis Lancaster and Caitlin Young". Real Salt Lake. 18 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ "Kansas City Returns to the NWSL as Expansion Team in 2021". NWSL. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- ^ "All Competitions : Player's Appearances – Lancaster Louis". football.mitoo.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "All Competitions : Player's Appearances – Lancaster Louis". football.mitoo.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2021.