Iain Brunskill

Iain Brunskill (born 5 November 1976) is an English former footballer and now coach. He is assistant head coach to Neil Critchley at Blackpool, a role he began in February 2022. He has previously coached at Liverpool, Blackburn Rovers and Norwich City in England, and in Malta, Norway, Jordan and China.

Iain Brunskill
Personal information
Date of birth (1976-11-05) 5 November 1976
Place of birth Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
Club information
Current team
 Blackpool (assistant head coach)
Youth career
1995–1996 Liverpool
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–1997 Bury 0 (0)
1997–1999 Leek 0 (0)
1999 Hednesford Town
1999 Runcorn Halton 0 (0)
Teams managed
2013 Floriana
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

As a player, he was a trainee at Liverpool, and was also at Bury, Leek, Hednesford Town and Runcorn Halton.

Career

Player

Between 1995 and 1996, Brunskill was a trainee at Liverpool. In 1996, he joined Bury, where he remained for a season. In 1997, he joined Leek, followed by stints at Hednesford Town and Runcorn Halton, for whom he made one appearance in the FA Cup.

Coaching

In 1998, Brunskill began his coaching career Liverpool as Assistant Academy Technical Director, a role he held for ten years.[1]

After leaving Anfield, Brunskill became reserve-team manager and first-team coach at Blackburn Rovers, working with Paul Ince initially, then Sam Allardyce.[1]

After four seasons at Ewood Park, in 2013 he took on his first head-coach role, at Maltese club Floriana. He was given a ten-game contract, which lasted from January to May.[2]

In 2013, he became a youth coach educator with the Football Association.[2]

Brunskill next joined Bolton Wanderers' player development department,[2] before beginning a two-year role as the Under-23s coach of the Jordan national team.[2]

He undertook a consultancy role at Chinese Super League club Shanghai SIPG, then joined Norwegian club Molde as Head of academy.[2]

In 2018, the Chinese Football Association hired Brunskill as the head of its technical department.[2]

After three years in China, he joined Norwich City as senior development coach in January 2022.[1][2]

On 9 February 2022, Brunskill was appointed assistant head coach to Neil Critchley at Blackpool, replacing Stuart McCall, who left for Sheffield United three months earlier.[1][3] He worked with Blackpool's first-team coach Mike Garrity at Liverpool.[2]

References
  1. "Blackpool boss wants Bloomfield Road colleagues to share their opinions" – Blackpool Gazette, 12 February 2022
  2. "Who is Iain Brunskill? Everything you need to know about Blackpool's new assistant head coach" – Lancs Live, 9 February 2022
  3. "Iain Brunskill: Blackpool name Norwich City development coach as assistant" – BBC Sport, 9 February 2022
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