Steve Gallen
Personal information
Full name Stephen Gallen
Date of birth (1973-11-21) 21 November 1973 (age 50)
Place of birth Acton, London, England
Team information
Current team
 Montserrat
(Assistant Manager)
Youth career
1990–1994 Queens Park Rangers[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1996 Doncaster Rovers
International career
1991–1992 Republic of Ireland U18 2 (0)
1993–1994 Republic of Ireland U21 4 (0)
Managerial career
2009 Queens Park Rangers (caretaker manager)
2016 Pegasus
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Stephen Gallen (born 21 November 1973) is a London-born Irish football coach who is the assistant manager of the Montserrat national football team.

Coaching and managerial career

Queens Park Rangers

Gallen was employed for almost two decades at Queens Park Rangers, and first joined the Academy coaching setup in 1997, as the under-12s coach. In 2009, he was jointly QPR's caretaker manager for one game with fellow QPR academy coach Marc Bircham. The game was live on TV and away at West Bromwich Albion, the final score of the game was 2–2.[2] He and Bircham were caretaker managers due to the suspension of Jim Magilton for an altercation with Ákos Buzsáky. He has two brothers, who were both professional footballers and on the QPR coaching staff at one point, Joe and Kevin. He was in the position of Senior Professional Development Coach, coach of the QPR U21 side, from 2014 to 2015, when he was promoted to First Team Coach. He left the club on 30 January 2016.[citation needed]

Pegasus

On 23 June 2016, Pegasus announced that Gallen would be the club's manager from the 2016–17 Hong Kong Premier League.[3][4] He left the club on 3 November 2016 after struggling to adapt to Hong Kong football.[5]

Charlton Athletic

On 19 April 2017, Gallen joined Charlton Athletic as the club's Head of Recruitment.[6] Steve was appointed as Director of Football on 10 January 2020 soon after Charlton Athletic was taken over by East Street Investments.[7] Gallen departed Charlton on the 2nd August 2023.

Montserrat

On the 9th September 2023, He took over as assistant of Montserrat while Lee Bowyer is managing the team.

Managerial statistics

Team Nat From To Record
G W L D Win %
Queens Park Rangers
(caretaker manager,
with Marc Bircham) 		England 16 December 2009 17 December 2009 1 0 0 1 0%
Pegasus Hong Kong 23 June 2016 3 November 2016 6 2 2 2 33.33%
Total 7 2 2 3 28.57%

Honours

As manager

Queens Park Rangers under-18s

Queens Park Rangers under-21s

As Director of Football

References

  1. ^ "QPR STAFF PROFILES". Queens Park Rangers. Archived from the original on 7 January 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Last gasp Baggies snatch point". Sky Sports. 14 December 2009. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  3. ^ "飛馬足球隊 Hong Kong Pegasus FC" [Hong Kong Pegasus FC (Hong Kong Pegasus FC)]. www.facebook.com. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
  4. ^ "港超聯 英超級新帥揭盅！史達寧恩師接掌香港飛馬" [Hong Kong Premier League: New super coach revealed! Sterling's mentor takes over Hong Kong Pegasus]. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
  5. ^ "【主教練加倫離隊】" [Coach Gallen has left the club] (in Chinese). Pegasus. 3 November 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  6. ^ Jones, George (19 April 2017). "NEWS | Charlton appoint Steve Gallen as Head of Recruitment". Charlton Athletic. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  7. ^ Charlton Athletic. "Steve Gallen appointed Director of Football". cafc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
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