Editing Stuart Pearce (section)

{{Short description|English footballer and manager (born 1962)}}
{{distinguish|Stuart Pierce}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Stuart Pearce<br/><small>[[Order of the British Empire|MBE]]</small>
| image = Stuart Pearce (31651906441).jpg
| image_size = 
| caption = Pearce in 2016
| fullname = Stuart Pearce<ref name="PFA 485">{{cite book
 | editor-first = Barry J.
 | editor-last = Hugman
 | title = The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946–2005
 | year = 2005
 | publisher = Queen Anne Press
 | isbn = 1-85291-665-6
 | page = 485 }}</ref>
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=10}}<ref name="11v11">{{cite web |url=https://www.11v11.com/players/stuart-pearce-582/|title=Stuart Pearce|website=11v11.com |publisher=AFS Enterprises |access-date=7 April 2020}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|4|24|df=y}}<ref name="PFA 485"/>
| birth_place = [[Shepherd's Bush]], [[London]], England
| position = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]]
| years1 = 1978–1983
| clubs1 = [[Wealdstone F.C.|Wealdstone]]
| caps1 = 176
| goals1 = 10
| years2 = 1983–1985
| clubs2 = [[Coventry City F.C.|Coventry City]]
| caps2 = 52
| goals2 = 4
| years3 = 1985–1997
| clubs3 = [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]]
| caps3 = 401
| goals3 = 63
| years4 = 1997–1999
| clubs4 = [[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]]
| caps4 = 37
| goals4 = 1
| years5 = 1999–2001
| clubs5 = [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United]]
| caps5 = 42
| goals5 = 2
| years6 = 2001–2002
| clubs6 = [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]]
| caps6 = 38
| goals6 = 3
| years7 = 2016
| clubs7 = [[Longford A.F.C.|Longford]]
| caps7 = 1
| goals7 = 0
| totalcaps = 747
| totalgoals = 82
| nationalyears1 = 1986
| nationalteam1 = [[England national under-21 football team|England U21]]
| nationalcaps1 = 1
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| nationalyears2 = 1987–1999<ref>{{Cite news|title=Stuart Pearce&nbsp;– International Appearances |publisher=The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation |url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/spearce-intl.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015141056/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/spearce-intl.html |archive-date=15 October 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref>
| nationalteam2 = [[England national football team|England]]
| nationalcaps2 = 78
| nationalgoals2 = 5
| manageryears1 = 1996–1997
| managerclubs1 = [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]] 
| manageryears2 = 2005–2007
| managerclubs2 = [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]]
| manageryears3 = 2007–2013
| managerclubs3 = [[England national under-21 football team|England U21]]
| manageryears4 = 2011–2012
| managerclubs4 = [[Great Britain men's Olympic football team|Great Britain]]
| manageryears5 = 2012
| managerclubs5 = [[England national football team|England]] (caretaker)
| manageryears6 = 2014–2015
| managerclubs6 = [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]]
| medaltemplates = {{medalSport|Men's [[Association football|football]]}}
{{Medal|Country|{{fb|ENG}}}} <small>(as manager)</small>
{{MedalComp|[[UEFA European Under-21 Championship]]}}
{{Medal|RU|[[2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship|2009]]|}}
}}

'''Stuart Pearce''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MBE}} (born 24 April 1962) is an English professional [[Manager (association football)|football manager]] and former [[Association football|player]], who was most recently a first-team coach for [[Premier League]] club [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United]]. He was nicknamed "'''Psycho'''" for his unforgiving style of play.

As a player, Pearce played as a [[Defender (association football)|defender]] and appeared for [[Wealdstone F.C.|Wealdstone]], [[Coventry City F.C.|Coventry City]], [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]], [[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]], [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United]] and [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] in a career that spanned twenty-two years. He is best known for his twelve-year spell at Forest, where he regularly captained the team and became the club's most capped international, making 76 of his 78 appearances for [[England national football team|England]] while with the club and captaining the national side on nine occasions. In 2016, he briefly came out of retirement, signing a one-match deal with Longford, from [[Longford, Gloucestershire|a town in Gloucestershire]], a team dubbed "the worst in Great Britain", in order to support the grassroots game.<ref name=Longford/>

Pearce's managerial career began at Nottingham Forest in a caretaker role, from December 1996 to May 1997. In November 2000, he was assistant coach to [[Peter Taylor (footballer, born 1953)|Peter Taylor]] in Taylor's only match in charge of England. Following his retirement in 2002, he remained with Manchester City as a coach under [[Kevin Keegan]]. In 2005, he was named caretaker manager and was given the job permanently that summer. In 2007, he was named caretaker manager of the [[England national under-21 football team|England national under-21 team]], guiding them to the semi-finals of the [[2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship|2007 UEFA Under-21 Championship]]. After being sacked by City in May 2007, he was given the England U21 job permanently a month later. Under Pearce, the team finished as runners-up in the [[2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship|2009 UEFA Under-21 Championship]], but failed to make it out of the group stage in the [[2013 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship|2013 UEFA Under-21 Championship]]. In addition, Pearce was an assistant coach under [[Fabio Capello]], managed the [[Great Britain men's Olympic football team|Great Britain Olympic football team]] at the [[Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics|2012 Summer Olympics]],<ref>{{cite web|title=FA appoints Team GB Head Coaches|url=http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/NewsAndFeatures/2011/Pearce-Powell-London-2012.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005001024/http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/NewsAndFeatures/2011/Pearce-Powell-London-2012.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 October 2018|publisher=The FA|date=20 October 2011|access-date=9 February 2012}}</ref> and was caretaker manager of England for one game in February 2012. In 2013, he left the U21s, as his contract was not extended by [[the Football Association]]. He returned to Nottingham Forest as manager in July 2014, and initially began the season well, but after a run of poor form, he was sacked in February 2015. He has since coached at [[Portsmouth F.C.|Portsmouth]] and at West Ham United.