Michael Beale (football coach)

Michael Beale (born 4 September 1980) is an English football coach who currently manages Scottish Premiership club Rangers.

This article is about the English football coach. For the English cricketer of the same name, see Michael Beale (cricketer).

Michael Beale
Personal information
Date of birth (1980-09-04) 4 September 1980
Place of birth Bromley, London, England
Position(s) Left winger
Team information
Current team
 Rangers (manager)
Youth career
Years Team
1998–2001 Charlton Athletic
2001 Twente
Managerial career
2022 Queens Park Rangers
2022– Rangers

Beale was assistant manager to Steven Gerrard at Rangers and Aston Villa. He has also coached at Chelsea, Liverpool and São Paulo.

Playing career

Beale's playing career started at Charlton Athletic and, after being released by Charlton, he had short trials at FC Twente in the Netherlands, and at clubs in the United States, before calling an end to his playing days at the age of 21.[1]

Coaching career

Beale's next step in football was to invest some of the money he had made as a youth player into setting up a futsal club for children in his hometown of Bromley, South London.[2] It was while training children here that he caught the attention of Chelsea Academy boss Neil Bath who, in 2002, offered him a role as a part-time youth coach at their Cobham Training Centre.[3] As a coach of Chelsea's Under-7s and Under-9s squads, he worked with future Premier League footballers Tammy Abraham and Dominic Solanke.[1]

After admitting to becoming somewhat frustrated with the lack of progression of young players into Chelsea's first team since the takeover of Roman Abramovich in 2003,[1] Beale took an offer to work at the Liverpool Academy, beginning as the coach of the Under-16s team, before progressing to become coach of the Under-23s. It was in this role that Beale first worked alongside Steven Gerrard, who was coaching the Liverpool Under-18s at the time.[4]

In January 2017, Beale, who was a long-time fan of South American football, accepted the opportunity to move to Brazilian club São Paulo, learning Portuguese to act as assistant to Rogério Ceni.[5] However, six months later, Ceni and his backroom team were sacked after a string of poor results.[6]

After a short time back working with Liverpool's youth set-up, Beale was contacted by Steven Gerrard to act as the first team coach at Rangers. In three years in Scotland under Gerrard, Beale and Gary McAllister, Rangers won their 55th league title in 2020–21 league season preventing city rivals Celtic from winning ten in a row.[7]

In November 2021, Gerrard was offered the role of manager at Aston Villa, following the sacking of Dean Smith. Beale and McAllister followed him to the Premier League club.[8]

Managerial career

Queens Park Rangers

On 1 June 2022, Beale was appointed first team coach at Championship side Queens Park Rangers.[9][10] With QPR top of the Championship in October 2022, Beale was approached by Wolverhampton Wanderers to become their new manager, but reportedly turned them down.[11]

Rangers

On 28 November 2022, Beale accepted an approach to leave QPR and manage Scottish side Rangers, where he had worked previously as the first team coach under Steven Gerrard.[12] Beale had a successful start to his Rangers managerial career, winning his first four matches in charge, after which he was named Scottish Premiership manager of the month for December.[13]

Managerial statistics
As of match played 13 May 2023
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record Ref
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Queens Park Rangers England 1 June 2022 28 November 2022 22 9 5 8 27 25 +2 040.91 [14]
Rangers Scotland 28 November 2022 Present 26 21 1 4 61 26 +35 080.77 [15]
Total 48 30 6 12 88 51 +37 062.50 —

Honours

Rangers

Individual

References
  1. Hutton, Ross (15 February 2020). "The Road to Rangers - Michael Beale". Heart and Hand. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  2. "Meet the man behind Gerrard's success". BBC Sport. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  3. "Who is Michael Beale? The ex-Chelsea and Liverpool coach playing a key role in Gerrard's managerial career | Goal.com". www.goal.com. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  4. Preece, Ashley (26 May 2022). "Villa coach Michael Beale favourite to land vacant QPR manager job". BirminghamLive. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  5. Henson, Mike (13 February 2017). "Michael Beale interview: The Liverpool coach who moved to Sao Paulo". The Set Pieces. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  6. "Sao Paulo sack Rogerio Ceni after six months". ESPN.com. 3 July 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  7. Townley, John (12 November 2021). "Michael Beale confirms Rangers future amid Aston Villa speculation". BirminghamLive. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  8. "Steven Gerrard: Rangers manager appointed Aston Villa head coach on three-and-a-half-year deal". Sky Sports. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  9. Webb, Matt (1 June 2022). "Michael Beale named QPR head coach". QPR. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  10. "Aston Villa confirm Michael Beale departure". Aston Villa Football Club. 1 June 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  11. Stone, Simon (20 October 2022). "Davis to stay in charge of Wolves until 2023". BBC Sport.
  12. "Michael Beale: Rangers appoint former assistant as manager as he leaves QPR". BBC Sport. BBC. 28 November 2022.
  13. "MICHAEL BEALE NAMED MANAGER OF THE MONTH". Rangers.co.uk. Rangers Football Club. 6 January 2023.
  14. "Queens Park Rangers FC: Matches". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  15. "Rangers FC: Matches". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  16. "Rangers 1 Celtic 2". BBC Sport. 26 February 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  17. "Beale lands December award | SPFL". Scottish Premier Football League. 6 January 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
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