Liam Rosenior

Liam Rosenior
Rosenior with Brighton & Hove Albion in 2015
Personal information
Full name Liam James Rosenior
Date of birth (1984-07-09) 9 July 1984
Place of birth Wandsworth, England
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position Right-back
Team information
Current team
Chelsea (head coach)
Youth career
2001–2002 Bristol City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2003 Bristol City 23 (2)
2003–2007 Fulham 79 (0)
2004Torquay United (loan) 10 (0)
2007–2010 Reading 64 (0)
2009–2010Ipswich Town (loan) 29 (1)
2010–2015 Hull City 144 (1)
2015–2018 Brighton & Hove Albion 44 (0)
Total 393 (4)
International career
2005 England U20 4 (1)
2005–2007 England U21 7 (0)
Managerial career
2022 Derby County (interim)
2022–2024 Hull City
2024–2026 Strasbourg
2026– Chelsea
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Liam James Rosenior (born 9 July 1984) is an English professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Premier League club Chelsea.

As a player, he usually played as a right-back, although he occasionally was moved to left-back and sometimes deployed as a right-winger. During his career, Rosenior played for Bristol City, Fulham, Torquay United, Reading, Ipswich Town, Hull City, and Brighton & Hove Albion. He is a former England U20 and England U21 international with a combined total of 11 caps and one goal.

Rosenior was interim manager at Derby County in 2022 and managed his former club Hull from November 2022 to May 2024. In July 2024, he was named as head coach of Strasbourg in Ligue 1. On 6 January 2026, Rosenior was appointed as the head coach of Chelsea on a six-and-a-half-year deal.