Mark Smith (footballer, born 1960)
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Mark Craig Smith (born 21 March 1960) is an English former professional football player and coach, and current loans manager at Sheffield United and a first-team coach at Ossett United.
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Mark Craig Smith[1] | ||
Date of birth | (1960-03-21) 21 March 1960 (age 64) | ||
Place of birth | Sheffield, England | ||
Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1977–1987 | Sheffield Wednesday | 282 | (16) |
1987–1990 | Plymouth Argyle | 82 | (6) |
1990–1992 | Barnsley | 104 | (10) |
1992–1993 | Notts County | 5 | (0) |
1992 | → Port Vale (loan) | 6 | (0) |
1993 | → Huddersfield Town (loan) | 5 | (0) |
1993 | → Chesterfield (loan) | 6 | (1) |
1993–1994 | Lincoln City | 20 | (1) |
Total | 510 | (34) | |
International career | |||
1981–1982 | England U21 | 5 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
1996–1997 | Notts County (caretaker) | ||
2004 | Sheffield Wednesday (caretaker) | ||
2015 | Chesterfield (caretaker) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
An England under-21 international, he posted 510 league appearances in a seventeen-year career in the Football League. He spent the first ten years of his career at Sheffield Wednesday, and by the time he left for Plymouth Argyle in 1987 he had made 282 league appearances for Wednesday. During his time in Sheffield he was named as the club's Player of the Year in 1981 and Wednesday twice won promotion and twice appeared in the FA Cup semi-finals. He switched to Barnsley in 1990 and was named as the club's Player of the Year in 1992. He signed with Notts County in 1992. He was loaned out to Port Vale, Huddersfield Town and Chesterfield, before he finished his career at Lincoln City in 1994. He then began work as a coach at various clubs, which included a one-game stint in charge of Sheffield Wednesday in 2004, in a caretaker manager capacity. He then returned to coaching, and also worked as caretaker-manager of Chesterfield in November 2015.