Graham Potter

Graham Potter
Potter with Brighton & Hove Albion in 2022
Personal information
Full name Graham Stephen Potter[1]
Date of birth (1975-05-20) 20 May 1975 (age 49)[1]
Place of birth Solihull, England
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[2]
Position(s) Left-back[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1992–1993 Birmingham City 25 (2)
1993Wycombe Wanderers (loan) 3 (0)
1993–1996 Stoke City 45 (1)
1996–1997 Southampton 8 (0)
1997–2000 West Bromwich Albion 43 (0)
1997Northampton Town (loan) 3 (0)
1997–1998Northampton Town (loan) 1 (0)
1999Reading (loan) 4 (0)
2000–2003 York City 114 (5)
2003–2004 Boston United 12 (0)
2003Shrewsbury Town (loan) 5 (0)
2004–2005 Macclesfield Town 57 (8)
Total 320 (16)
International career
1996 England U21 1 (0)
Managerial career
2008–2011 Leeds Carnegie
2011–2018 Östersund
2018–2019 Swansea City
2019–2022 Brighton & Hove Albion
2022–2023 Chelsea
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Graham Stephen Potter (born 20 May 1975) is an English professional football manager and former player who was most recently manager of Premier League club Chelsea.[3]

In a 13-year playing career, Potter, who played as a left-back, made 307 appearances in the Football League. He also played in the Premier League for Southampton, and the Football Conference for Shrewsbury Town. At international level, he was capped once for England at under-21 level.

Potter started his professional managerial career in January 2011 with Swedish club Östersund. He won three promotions and the Svenska Cupen with Östersund, leading them to the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League knockout stage. He was appointed manager of Championship club Swansea City in June 2018, and moved on to Brighton & Hove Albion of the Premier League a year later. After a successful spell at Brighton, he was hired by Chelsea in 2022, but was dismissed in April 2023, following a steep drop in form.

  1. ^ a b c "Graham Potter". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  2. ^ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (1998). The 1998–99 Official PFA Footballers Factfile. Harpenden: Queen Anne Press. p. 241. ISBN 978-1-85291-588-9.
  3. ^ "Graham Potter – the biography". chelseafc.com. Retrieved 8 September 2022.

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