Eddie Newton
Personal information
Full name Edward John Ikem Newton[1]
Date of birth (1971-12-13) 13 December 1971 (age 52)[1]
Place of birth Hammersmith, England
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[1]
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Youth career
1985–1990 Chelsea
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990–1999 Chelsea 165 (8)
1992 → Cardiff City (loan) 18 (4)
1999–2000 Birmingham City 4 (0)
2000 Oxford United 7 (0)
2000 Barnet 4 (0)
2000–2001 Hayes 6 (0)
Total 204 (12)
International career
1993 England U21 2 (0)
Managerial career
2008–2009 Milton Keynes Dons (assistant manager)
2009–2011 West Bromwich Albion (assistant manager)
2012 Chelsea (assistant manager)
2015–2016 Chelsea (assistant manager)
2019–2020 Chelsea (assistant manager)
2020 Trabzonspor (assistant manager)
2020 Trabzonspor
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Edward John Ikem Newton (born 13 December 1971) is an English football manager and former professional footballer.

As a player, he was a defensive midfielder from 1990 until 2001 notably for Chelsea where he scored in the 1997 FA Cup final. He also played in the Football League for Cardiff City, Birmingham City, Oxford United and Barnet and in the Conference National for Hayes. He also earned two caps for the England U21 side.

Having begun his coaching career on the staff of Milton Keynes Dons and West Bromwich Albion, he returned to Chelsea where he served as assistant manager to Roberto Di Matteo before the latter was replaced by Rafael Benítez. In December 2015 he was reappointed as assistant manager to interim manager Guus Hiddink. In 2020 he had a brief spell in charge of Turkish side Trabzonspor.

Playing career

Newton was born in Hammersmith, London.[1] After making his way through the Chelsea youth system he was loaned out to Cardiff City in January 1992, making his debut in a 4–0 win over Chesterfield. Cardiff fell three points short of a play-off place and Newton returned to Chelsea. He played for Chelsea in the 1994 FA Cup Final, but his foul on Denis Irwin in the second half saw him cautioned and led to Manchester United receiving a penalty which was scored by Eric Cantona. He then made a defensive error which allowed United's Mark Hughes to make it 3–0.[2]

Chelsea went on to lose 4–0 but United had won the double to qualify for the European Cup, allowing Chelsea to play European football for the first time since the 1970s with a place in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Newton was part of the team that reached the semi-finals of the 1994–95 competition and also the semi-finals of the 1995–96 FA Cup.

Newton scored Chelsea's second, clinching, goal in the 1997 FA Cup Final to seal a 2–0 win over Middlesbrough. He won the Cup Winners' Cup and League Cup with the club a year later, but was thereafter hampered in his quest for a starting place by injuries and manager Gianluca Vialli's signing of French World Cup-winning midfielder Didier Deschamps.[3]

He joined Birmingham City in July 1999 on a free transfer before spending short spells at various lower-league clubs, including Oxford United and Barnet. He retired due to a knee injury.[4]

Management and coaching career

On 2 July 2008 Newton was appointed assistant manager to Roberto Di Matteo at Milton Keynes Dons. A year later, on 30 June 2009, Di Matteo was appointed head coach of West Bromwich Albion and it was reported that Newton would be joining him at the club as assistant head coach.[5] When Di Matteo was relieved of his duties in January 2011, Newton also left the club.

On 5 March 2012 it was announced that Newton would be joining the back room staff at Chelsea, supporting Roberto Di Matteo. Di Matteo had just taken over as interim Head Coach at Chelsea following the departure of André Villas-Boas.[6][7] In his short time as assistant manager at Chelsea he has won the UEFA Champions League and FA Cup. He currently helps to oversee the progress of Chelsea's loan players after having been assistant first team coach under Guus Hiddink in for the second half of the previous season.[8] Following the departure of Hiddink, Newton returned to the loan technical coach role until 2019, when he became an assistant coach to the first team following the appointment of Frank Lampard as head coach.

He was appointed assistant manager at Trabzonspor in February 2020.[9]

On 2 August 2020, Newton was appointed by Trabzonspor on a permanent basis, after a successful period as caretaker winning the Turkish Cup.[10] On 31 October 2020, he was sacked as the club's manager after winning just one of his seven games in charge.[11]

Personal life

Born in England, Newton is of Nigerian/Jamaican descent.[12]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 30 October 2020
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record Ref
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Trabzonspor Turkey 20 July 2020 31 October 2020 9 3 2 4 13 15 −2 033.33
Total 9 3 2 4 13 15 −2 033.33 —

Honours

Player

Chelsea

Assistant Manager

Chelsea

Manager

Trabzonspor

References & notes

  1. ^ a b c d Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2001). The 2001–2002 Official PFA Footballers Factfile. AFS. p. 222. ISBN 9780946531349.
  2. ^ "Final details: 1994 Manchester United". Archived from the original on 11 March 2007. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
  3. ^ "Where are they now? Chelsea's 1997 FA Cup winners". fourfourtwo.com. 17 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Where are they now? Eddie Newton". The Observer. 11 May 2008. Retrieved 30 June 2009.
  5. ^ "Di Matteo is new Albion boss". Express and Star. 30 June 2009. Retrieved 30 June 2009.
  6. ^ "Roberto di Matteo wants Chelsea 'passion' after Villas-Boas exit". BBC Sport. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
  7. ^ "Eddie Newton joins Chelsea as part of caretaker manager Roberto Di Matteo's backroom staff". The Daily Telegraph. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
  8. ^ "Eddie Newton - Loan technical coach". www.chelseafc.com. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  9. ^ "Eddie Newton joins Trabzonspor | Official Site | Chelsea Football Club". ChelseaFC.
  10. ^ "Trabzonspor'da Eddie Newton dönemi". NTVSpor.net.
  11. ^ "Teşekkürler" (in Turkish). Trabzonspor. 31 October 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  12. ^ "Ex-Chelsea Assistant Coach of Nigerian Descent Newton Appointed Trabzonspor Permanent Manager :: All Nigeria Soccer - The Complete Nigerian Football Portal". www.allnigeriasoccer.com.
  13. ^ a b c "Former Chelsea coach Eddie Newton is Trabzonspor's permanent boss". BBC Sport. BBC. 2 August 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
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