Lambert managing Aston Villa in 2013
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Paul Lambert | ||
Date of birth | 7 August 1969 | ||
Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Wolverhampton Wanderers (head coach) |
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Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1986–1993 | St Mirren | 227 | (14) |
1993–1996 | Motherwell | 103 | (6) |
1996–1997 | Borussia Dortmund | 44 | (1) |
1997–2005 | Celtic | 193 | (14) |
2005–2006 | Livingston | 7 | (0) |
Total | 574 | (35) | |
National team | |||
1990 | Scottish League XI | 1 | (0) |
1991–1992 | Scotland U21 | 5 | (2) |
1995–1996 | Scotland B | 2 | (0) |
1995–2003 | Scotland | 40 | (1) |
Teams managed | |||
2005–2006 | Livingston | ||
2006–2008 | Wycombe Wanderers | ||
2008–2009 | Colchester United | ||
2009–2012 | Norwich City | ||
2012–2015 | Aston Villa | ||
2015–2016 | Blackburn Rovers | ||
2016– | Wolverhampton Wanderers | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Paul Lambert (born 7 August 1969) is a Scottish former professional footballer and manager who played as a midfielder. He is the Head Coach of Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Lambert won numerous honours as a player, winning the Scottish Cup with St Mirren as a 17-year-old, the UEFA Champions League with Borussia Dortmund and all the Scottish domestic honours with Celtic. In his international career, Lambert earned 40 caps for Scotland and played in the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
Lambert achieved success managing in England's lower divisions and guided Norwich City into English football's Premier League with successive promotions in 2009–10 and 2010–11. After keeping Norwich in the Premier League in 2011–12, he managed Aston Villa for three seasons. Lambert was appointed Blackburn Rovers manager in November 2015, before leaving the club in May 2016.
Lambert became head coach of Wolverhampton Wanderers on 5 November 2016.
Lambert was born in Glasgow, but moved to Linwood, Renfrewshire, when he was a child. He played for Linwood Rangers Boys' Club before entering the professional game with St Mirren in 1985. With St Mirren, the 17-year old Lambert won his first senior winner's medal courtesy of the 1987 Scottish Cup Final. Saints beat favourites and that season's UEFA Cup Finalists, Jim McLean's Dundee United, in what turned out to be the last time the Scottish Cup was won by a team composed entirely of Scottish players. Lambert played with St Mirren for eight years.