Derek Fazackerley

Derek Fazackerley

Personal information
Full name	Derek William Fazackerley
Date of birth	(1951-11-05) 5 November 1951
Place of birth	Preston, England
Height
Position(s)	Central defender
Youth career
	Blackburn Rovers
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1969–1987	Blackburn Rovers	596	(23)
1987–1988	Chester City	66	(0)
1988	York City	16	(0)
1988	Bury	14	(0)
1990	Kumu	17	(0)
Total		709	(23)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Derek William Fazackerley (born 5 November 1951) is an English former footballer who is currently employed as the assistant first team coach at Oxford United. He spent the majority of his career playing for Blackburn Rovers.

Playing career

Fazackerley made a record 671 appearances for Blackburn in an 18-year career.

Coaching career

In January 1987, he joined Chester City as a player and assistant manager. The long-term plan was for qualified coach Fazackerley to succeed Harry McNally as manager, but he grew unhappy at the lack of progress at the club. He moved on in the summer of 1988 to York City to assist ex-Rovers manager Bobby Saxton. In February 1989, he joined Bury where Martin Dobson was manager and ended the season helping run the side after Dobson departed. This was his final playing season in professional football.

In May 1990, he became player-manager of Kumu in Finland before moving to Newcastle United as first team coach. He was involved in the England setup as assistant manager under Kevin Keegan, working alongside Les Reed.

He has since coached at other clubs, including Blackburn, Bolton Wanderers and Barnsley.

He was a scout for Manchester City and sat alongside Sven-Göran Eriksson on the bench at City's matches during his only season in charge. His position at the club was placed under review following Sven-Göran Eriksson's departure, and left in July after Mark Hughes was appointed as manager.

On 11 December 2008, he was made the new first team coach at Football League One side Huddersfield Town, following the appointment of Lee Clark as manager.

On 4 October 2010, he was made the new assistant manager at Football League Championship side Leicester City, following the appointment of Sven-Göran Eriksson as manager. He left the club in October 2011.

When Clark took over as manager of Birmingham City in June 2012, he appointed Fazackerley to the role of first-team coach. On 17 February 2014, it was widely reported that he and assistant manager Terry McDermott had left Birmingham; the club stated they had "no comment to issue on the matter at this moment in time".

On 21 July 2014 he was announced as the assistant head coach of Oxford United, working alongside Michael Appleton.