Nicky Eaden
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Nicholas Jeremy Eaden | ||
Date of birth | 12 December 1972 | ||
Place of birth | Sheffield, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
Position(s) | Full back | ||
Youth career | |||
– | Barnsley | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1992–2000 | Barnsley | 293 | (10) |
2000–2002 | Birmingham CityB | 74 | (3) |
2002 | → Wigan Athletic (loan) | 5 | (0) |
2002–2005 | Wigan Athletic | 117 | (0) |
2005–2007 | Nottingham Forest | 28 | (0) |
2006 | → Lincoln City (loan) | 17 | (0) |
2007 | → Lincoln City (loan) | 16 | (0) |
2007 | Halesowen Town | 1 | (0) |
2007 | Solihull Moors | 1 | (0) |
2007–2009 | Kettering TownA | 28 | (0) |
Total | 580 | (13) | |
Managerial career | |||
2008–2009 | Kettering Town (player-assistant) | ||
2009–2010 | Peterborough United (assistant) | ||
2011 | Rotherham United (coach) | ||
2011 | Tamworth (assistant) | ||
2011-2012 | Kettering Town (assistant) | ||
2012–2016 | Leicester City (under-21s coach) | ||
2016 | Rotherham United (caretaker manager) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Nicholas Jeremy "Nicky" Eaden (born 12 December 1972) is a retired English association football defender who most recently worked as first team coach for Rotherham United. He played 550 matches in the Football League.
Playing career
Born in Sheffield, Eaden started his career at local Barnsley F.C., contributing to their promotion to the Premiership before joining Birmingham City. Eaden also had a successful spell with Wigan Athletic, winning promotion from the then Division Two and then into the Premiership. Whilst at Birmingham he played in the 2001 Football League Cup Final.
He joined Nottingham Forest in 2005. Despite being successful with most of his previous clubs, caretaker managers Frank Barlow and Ian McParland did not include him in the first matchday squad in the 2006–07 season after an indifferent debut season in the East Midlands, although he had been promoted with every club he had been at prior to joining Forest.
On 31 August 2006 he joined League Two side Lincoln City on loan, initially for a month,[1][2] which was later extended to the maximum 93-day total.[3] He then returned to Forest, but was again loaned to Lincoln in January 2007, this time for the rest of the season.[4]
Released by Forest, Eaden signed for Halesowen Town of the Southern League, making just one appearance.[5] In September 2007 Eaden signed for Solihull Moors of the Conference North;[6] after only one appearance he left for fellow Conference North side Kettering Town, making his debut in the 1–1 draw at Nuneaton Borough on 20 October 2007.[7]
Coaching career
Eaden, initially a player-coach at Kettering, became assistant to manager Mark Cooper after the 2008–09 season.[8][9] In November 2009, Cooper was appointed manager of Championship club Peterborough United, and Eaden accompanied him, again as assistant manager.[10] A year later, he left the club by mutual consent.[11]
On 22 March 2011, Eaden joined the coaching staff of Rotherham United on a contract until the end of the season, working under his one-time Barnsley teammate Andy Liddell.[12] After Liddell lost out to Andy Scott for the full-time manager's role at the club, Eaden departed at the end of his contract,[13] but was quickly back in work agreeing a two-year contract to become assistant manager to Marcus Law at Tamworth.[14] However, just a week later Eaden announced he had suffered a change of heart and would not be taking up the post,[15] instead taking up the same role at Kettering Town.[16]
During the 2012–13 season, Eaden worked alongside Steve Beaglehole for Leicester City under-21s as a coach. Eaden was also named on the bench for an under-21 game against Huddersfield Town as one of three over-aged players.[17]
On 4 February 2016, Eaden joined Rotherham United as assistant manager to Neil Redfearn. He signed a contract until the end of the 2017–18 season.[18] Five days later, Redfearn was dismissed, and Eaden took on the role of caretaker manager. Before their next match, Rotherham appointed Neil Warnock as manager, and Eaden was kept on the staff as first-team coach.[19][20]
On 3 June 2016, Eaden departed Rotherham United, a day after the appointment of new manager Alan Stubbs.[21]
Honours
Club
- with Barnsley
- First Division (level 2) runners-up: 1996–97
- First Division (level 2) playoff finalists: 1999–2000[22]
- with Birmingham City
- League Cup finalists: 2001[23]
- First Division (level 2) playoff winners: 2001–02
- with Wigan Athletic
- Second Division (level 3) winners: 2002–03[24]
- Championship (level 2) runners-up: 2004–05
- with Kettering Town
- Conference North (level 6) winners: 2007–08
Individual
- PFA Team of the Year First Division: 1996–97
- PFA Team of the Year Second Division: 2002–03[25]
Notes
A. ^ The Kettering Town appearances and goals only include the 2008–09 and 2009–10 seasons in the Conference National, not the 2007–08 season in the Conference North, which Soccerbase does not cover.
B. ^ Soccerbase attributes Birmingham's goal against Portsmouth in October 2000 to Eaden,[23] where other sources, e.g. Tony Matthews' Birmingham City Complete Record[26] and the BBC match report[27] give it to Dele Adebola. The total of three League goals for Birmingham is consistent with Hugman's PFA Footballers' Who's Who annuals[24] and with Neil Brown's site.[28]
References
- ^ "Lincoln seal loan deal for Eaden". BBC Sport. 31 August 2006. Retrieved 25 February 2008.
- ^ "Forest's Eaden stays at Lincoln". BBC Sport. 3 October 2006. Retrieved 25 February 2008.
- ^ "Macclesfield vs Lincoln City". Lincoln City F.C. 1 January 2007. Archived from the original on 12 January 2008.
- ^ "Imps land Forest's Eaden on loan". BBC Sport. 31 January 2007. Retrieved 25 February 2008.
- ^ "Statistics". Halesowen Town F.C. Archived from the original on 28 March 2008. Retrieved 25 February 2008.
- ^ "Solihull Moors 0–1 Blyth Spartans". BBC Sport. 25 September 2007. Retrieved 25 February 2008.
- ^ "Poppies pegged back at Nuneaton Borough". PoppiesFans.com. 20 October 2007. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ "Nicky Eaden". Kettering Town F.C. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011.
- ^ "Sinclair leaves Poppies but two set to sign". Northants Telegraph. 14 May 2009. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ^ "Cooper confirmed as Posh manager". BBC Sport. 14 November 2009. Retrieved 16 November 2009.
- ^ "Assistant manager Eaden carries the can for poor defensive form". Peterborough Telegraph. 26 November 2010. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ^ "Millers add Eaden to coaching staff". Rotherham United F.C. 22 March 2011. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011.
- ^ "Scott praise for departing Liddell". Rotherham United F.C. 7 June 2011. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011.
- ^ "Eaden is new Tamworth assistant". NonLeagueDaily.com. 16 June 2011. Archived from the original on 3 October 2012.
- ^ "Eaden does a U-turn". NonLeague.Pitchero.com. 22 June 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ^ "Kettering Town appoint Morell Maison and Nicky Eaden". BBC Sport. 24 June 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ^ "Under-21s lose to Terriers". Leicester City F.C. 9 May 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
- ^ "Nicky Eaden: Rotherham United appoint new assistant manager". BBC Sport. 4 February 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ Davis, Paul (12 February 2016). "Rotherham United: Eaden confident Millers can beat the drop". The Star. Sheffield. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ "Staff profiles". Rotherham United F.C. 12 February 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ "Rotherham United: Best and Eaden leave as Stubbs targets new recruits". Johnston Publishing Ltd. 3 June 2016.
- ^ "Games played by Nicky Eaden in 1999/2000". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ^ a b "Games played by Nicky Eaden in 2000/2001". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ^ a b Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2007). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2007–08. Edinburgh: Mainstream. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-84596-246-3.
- ^ "Wigan dominate PFA team". BBC Sport. 28 April 2003. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ^ Matthews, Tony (2010). Birmingham City: The Complete Record. Derby: Derby Books. p. 436. ISBN 978-1-85983-853-2.
- ^ "Portsmouth 1–1 Birmingham". BBC Sport. 28 October 2000. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- ^ "Nicky Eaden". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
External links
- Nicky Eaden at Soccerbase
- Profile at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
- 1972 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Sheffield
- Footballers from Sheffield
- English footballers
- Association football defenders
- Barnsley F.C. players
- Birmingham City F.C. players
- Wigan Athletic F.C. players
- Nottingham Forest F.C. players
- Lincoln City F.C. players
- Halesowen Town F.C. players
- Solihull Moors F.C. players
- Kettering Town F.C. players
- English Football League players
- Premier League players
- English football managers
- Rotherham United F.C. managers
- English Football League managers