Shaun Teale

Shaun Teale

Personal information
Full name	Shaun Teale
Date of birth	(1964-03-10) 10 March 1964
Place of birth	Southport, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position(s)	Defender (retired)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1988–1989	Weymouth	?	(?)
1989–1991	Bournemouth	100	(4)
1991–1995	Aston Villa	147	(2)
1995–1998	Tranmere Rovers	54	(0)
1997	→ Preston North End (loan)	5	(0)
1997–1998	→ Sing Tao (loan)	?	(?)
1998–2000	Motherwell	47	(4)
2000	Carlisle United	18	(0)
2000–2002	Southport	68	(5)
2002–2003	Burscough	?	(?)
2003–2004	Northwich Victoria	6	(1)
Total		445+	(16+)
Managerial career
2002–2003	Burscough
2003–2004	Northwich Victoria
2005–2006	Chorley
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Shaun Teale (born 10 March 1964 in Southport) is a former English professional footballer and manager. He played as a defender from 1988 until 2004 and was notably part of the League Cup winning team of Aston Villa in 1994.

He also played in the Football League for Bournemouth, Tranmere Rovers, Preston North End and Carlisle United, the Scottish Premier League for Motherwell. As well as having a spell in Hong Kong with Sing Tao he has played at a Non-league level for Weymouth, Southport, Burscough and Northwich Victoria before moving into management with the two latter clubs, as well as having a spell in charge of Chorley.

Playing career

He was a central defender who joined Bournemouth from non-league Weymouth for £50,000 in 1989. He spent three seasons at Bournemouth before moving to Aston Villa in July 1991. He helped them finish runners-up in the Premier League in 1993 and win the Football League Cup a year later, before losing his place in the first team to Ugo Ehiogu.

He moved from Villa to join Tranmere Rovers for £500,000 in the summer of 1995. He made his Tranmere debut on 12 August 1995 against Wolves and played in 29 league games for Tranmere in his first season with them. Whilst with Rovers he had loan spells with Preston North End and Sing Tao SC, before signing for Motherwell in August 1998.

Teale moved from Motherwell to Carlisle United on a free transfer in February 2000, playing 20 games for the Cumbrian club. He then went on to join Southport, playing for them until the age of 40, before moving into non-league coaching and management.

Managerial career

Teale was appointed manager of Burscough, a team in the Northern Premier League Premier Division. Whilst he was there, the side won the 2003 FA Trophy.

Teale left Burscough six weeks after the Trophy win, and has since managed Northwich Victoria, a Football Conference team in the 2003/04 season. Teale left Northwich at the end of the 2003/04 season.

Between February 2005 and August 2006, Teale managed Northern Premier League First Division side Chorley, before leaving to run his pub and restaurant business in Burscough.

It was announced on 8 March 2013 he applied for the AFC Telford United with Peter Withe.

Personal life

On 3 September 2010, it was announced that Teale had come out of retirement to sign for Southport and District Sunday League Premier Division side The Herald.

During his time at Motherwell, he attended baking lessons and became well known among his teammates for the impressive size of his bake-well tarts due to the "special" ingrediant he used to add at the beginning of the baking process.

External links

• Shaun Teale career stats at Sporting-Heroes