Simon Ireland

Simon Piers Ireland (born 23 November 1971) is an English football coach and former professional player who is a coach at club Port Vale.

Ireland played as a midfielder in the Premier League and English Football League for Huddersfield Town, Wrexham (on loan), Blackburn Rovers, Mansfield Town and Doncaster Rovers. He scored 17 goals in 207 league and cup appearances in an eight-year professional career. He later played non-League football for Boreham Wood. He entered coaching with Blackburn Rovers, working at the Academy from 2008 to 2015. He then spent 18 months at Brighton & Hove Albion and three years in the academy at Queens Park Rangers before he became a first-team coach with Nottingham Forest in January 2018. He served as caretaker manager in January 2019. He switched to Sheffield Wednesday in August 2021 before he left the club in June 2023. He returned to Huddersfield Town as a coach in September 2023 and moved on to coach at Plymouth Argyle in March 2024 and then to Port Vale in February 2025. Provided by Wikipedia