David Oldfield (footballer)

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David Oldfield

Personal information
Full name	David Charles Oldfield
Date of birth	(1968-05-30) 30 May 1968
Place of birth	Perth, Australia
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Stoke Goldington
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1986–1989	Luton Town	29	(4)
1989–1990	Manchester City	21	(6)
1990–1995	Leicester City	188	(26)
1995	→ Millwall (loan)	17	(6)
1995–1998	Luton Town	120	(19)
1998–2000	Stoke City	65	(7)
2000–2002	Peterborough United	78	(4)
2002–2004	Oxford United	31	(2)
2005–2007	Stafford Rangers	22	(0)
2007	Tamworth	1	(0)
2007–2008	Brackley Town	0	(0)
Total		577	(74)
International career
1988	England U21	1	(0)
Managerial career
2007–2008	Brackley Town
2011	Peterborough United (caretaker manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David Charles Oldfield (born 30 May 1968) is an English former professional footballer and current coach who played for several English clubs including Luton Town, Manchester City, Leicester City and Stoke City.

Playing career

Born in Australia, Oldfield moved to England with his family at a young age. He began playing football as a boy for North Buckinghamshire Village side Stoke Goldington, before being spotted by league outfit Luton Town in 1986, where he played 29 league games over the next three years, scoring four goals. While at Luton he received a call-up to the England under-21 squad, in March 1988.

Oldfield moved to Manchester City for a fee of £600,000 in March 1989, choosing to join City ahead of West Ham United. At City, Oldfield formed part of the squad that gained promotion to the First Division in 1988–89. Though Oldfield was at Maine Road for less than a year, he is fondly remembered for his two goals in the Manchester derby against local rivals United in September 1989 when City triumphed 5–1. Mel Machin, the manager who signed Oldfield for City, was sacked in November 1989. Less than a month after Howard Kendall was appointed as Machin's successor, Oldfield was sold. In an exchange valued at £650,000, Oldfield headed to Leicester City, and Wayne Clarke travelled in the opposite direction.

Oldfield stayed at Leicester for five years. He helped them win promotion to the FA Premier League in 1994, winning the playoffs at Wembley after losing there in the two previous seasons. He then had a successful loan spell at Millwall, but the move was not made permanent and he returned to Luton Town instead. However, he was unable to prevent their relegation to Division Two in 1996 and signed for Stoke City two years later. He spent two years with Stoke before a two-year spell at Peterborough United and then a two-year spell at Oxford United before he played his last professional game in 2004. He came out of retirement the following year to sign for non-league Stafford Rangers, where he spent two years. Tamworth confirmed the signing of David Oldfield on 30 November 2007. Oldfield made his debut for the club against Leigh RMI in a 2–0 home victory on 1 December 2007, just one day after signing.

Managerial career

Some three days after Oldfield made his Tamworth debut, he was appointed as the new first team manager of Brackley Town on 4 December 2007, replacing Roger Ashby. In 2008 Oldfield was appointed as Reserve Team Manager at Peterborough United, and on 11 January 2011 he took charge of the first team for one match in between the departure of manager Gary Johnson and the appointment of Darren Ferguson as his replacement, a 2–1 home league win over Brentford.

In July 2011, Oldfield left Peterborough to join West Bromwich Albion as a development coach. On 12 June 2014, Oldfield joined Milton Keynes Dons as Head of Academy Coaching He was appointed assistant manager to Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink at Burton Albion in November 2014. On 4 December 2015, Oldfield left Burton Albion to join Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink at Queens Park Rangers.

Career statistics

• Sourced from David Oldfield at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)

Club	Season	League			FA Cup		League Cup		Other[A]		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Luton Town	1987–88	First Division	8	3	0	0	1	0	2	2	11	5
	1988–89	First Division	21	1	1	0	5	2	1	0	28	3
	Total		29	4	1	0	6	2	3	2	39	8
Manchester City	1988–89	Second Division	11	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	3
	1989–90	First Division	15	3	0	0	3	2	1	1	19	6
	Total		26	6	0	0	3	2	1	1	30	9
Leicester City	1989–90	Second Division	20	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	5
	1990–91	Second Division	42	7	1	0	2	0	1	0	46	7
	1991–92	Second Division	41	4	2	0	4	0	6	1	53	5
	1992–93	First Division	44	5	2	1	2	0	4	0	52	6
	1993–94	First Division	27	4	1	1	3	1	3	1	37	7
	1994–95	Premier League	14	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	16	2
	Total		188	26	7	3	12	1	14	2	221	32
Millwall (loan)	1994–95	First Division	17	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	6
	Total		17	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	6
Luton Town	1995–96	First Division	34	2	1	0	2	0	2	0	39	2
	1996–97	Second Division	38	6	1	0	5	2	4	3	46	11
	1997–98	Second Division	45	10	1	0	4	0	3	1	53	11
	Total		117	18	3	0	11	2	9	4	140	24
Stoke City	1998–99	Second Division	46	6	2	0	2	0	1	0	51	6
	1999–200	Second Division	19	1	0	0	3	0	1	0	23	1
	Total		65	7	2	0	5	0	2	0	74	7
Peterborough United	1999–2000	Third Division	9	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	13	0
	2000–01	Second Division	39	3	5	1	2	0	0	0	46	4
	2001–02	Second Division	30	1	5	0	1	0	2	0	38	1
	Total		78	4	10	1	6	0	3	0	97	5
Oxford United	2002–03	Third Division	28	2	2	1	2	0	1	0	33	3
	2003–04	Third Division	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	0
	Total		31	2	2	1	3	0	1	0	37	3
Career Total			551	73	25	5	46	7	33	9	655	94

A. ^ The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the Anglo-Italian Cup, Football League Trophy, Football League play-offs and Full Members Cup.

External links

• David Oldfield at Soccerbase