Neil Banfield

Neil Banfield

Personal information
Full name	Neil Anthony Banfield
Date of birth	20 January 1962
Place of birth	Poplar, London, England
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current team	Arsenal (First team coach)
Youth career
?–1980	Crystal Palace
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1979–1981	Crystal Palace	3	(0)
1981–1983	Adelaide City	50	(2)
1983–1985	Leyton Orient	31	(0)
1985–?	Dagenham	?	(?)
National team
	England Schoolboys
Teams managed
1997–2004	Arsenal Youth
2004–2012	Arsenal Reserves
2012–	Arsenal (First team coach)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Neil Banfield (born 20 January 1962 in Poplar, London) is an English football player and coach. He is currently the first-team coach of Arsenal.

As a player, Banfield had a fairly undistinguished career as a centre half, playing for Crystal Palace (1979–81) and Leyton Orient (1983–84), with a spell at Australian side Adelaide City in between. He represented Grays Athletic before his stint in the Football League. Whilst at Palace, Banfield represented England Schoolboys.^[1]

After retiring from playing he entered coaching, and joined Arsenal in 1997. Until 2004, he coached and managed various youth teams at Arsenal, winning two FA Youth Cups, an FA Premier Academy League U17 title in 1999-00 and an Academy League U19 title in 2003–04. He succeeded Eddie Niedzwiecki as Arsenal Reserves coach after the former's departure for Blackburn Rovers in September 2004. He was also Republic of Ireland U21 assistant manager under Don Givens between April 2004 and May 2005. On 24 May 2012 it was announced that Neil Banfield was to become the first-team coach for Arsenal.^[2]

References

1. "Neil Banfield". arsenal.com. Arsenal F.C. 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
2. "Bould and Banfield join first-team staff". Arsenal.com. Retrieved 24 May 2012.

External Links

• Neil Banfield stats at neilbrown.com
• "Neil Banfield". Arsenal.com. Retrieved 10 March 2014.