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Assistant first team coach

Steve Clarke


Steve Clarke is our assistant first team coach and has worked under the
last nine Chelsea managers, either as player, scout, coach or assistant
manager.


He was promoted from youth team coach to assistant manager when Jose
Mourinho arrived in 2004, helping the new management team with his vast
knowledge of both the Premier League and the club.


Steve had first arrived at Stamford Bridge in 1987,joining us as a player
from the Scottish League, and he went on to become the fifth highest
appearance maker in Chelsea history, mostly at right-back but in later
seasons in central defence.


Voted Player of the Year in 1994, Steve's loyalty throughout some tough
years was rewarded during his final seasons as a player when he won the
FA Cup, League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup. He was also a Scottish
international.


The 1998 Cup Winners' Cup final against Stuttgart was Steve's last game
for Chelsea as early the next season he took up a coaching position with
former Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit at Newcastle United.


When Gullit left Newcastle, Steve stayed on at St James' Park as caretaker
manager before working under Bobby Robson until leaving in 2000.


He came back to Stamford Bridge, originally accepting a scouting post
before he was soon promoted to the youth team job which he held until the
arrival of Mourinho.


Working out of the spotlight, he has played a major role in the collection
of six pieces of silverware won since 2004.


An important link with the club's past as well as very much part of our
present, Steve represents the ultimate in continuity in the management and
is a Chelsea legend.