Richard Shaw (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Richard Edward Shaw | ||
| Date of birth | 11 September 1968 | ||
| Place of birth | {Park Royal, London], England | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Cardiff City (assistant manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1987 | Crystal Palace | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1987–1995 | Crystal Palace | 207 | (3) |
| 1989 | → Hull City (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 1995–2006 | Coventry City | 317 | (1) |
| 2006–2008 | Millwall | 59 | (0) |
| Total | 587 | (4) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2007 | Millwall (caretaker) | ||
| 2012 | Coventry City (caretaker) | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 14:18, 25 June 2012 (UTC) | |||
Richard Edward Shaw (born 11 September 1968) is an English football coach and former professional footballer, who is currently assistant coach of EFL Championship side Cardiff City
As a player from 1986 until 2008, he was a mainly a defender, notably in the Premier League for Crystal Palace and Coventry City as well as in the Football League for both Hull City and Millwall.
He later became a coach and joined the coaching staff at Millwall where he saw time as caretaker manager in 2007. He later returned to Coventry in 2012 as assistant manager where he also took over temporarily. The following season he re-joined Palace as their under-16 head coach, then became the under-23 head coach from 2013 in a role he held until 2019. In 2020 Shaw became assistant coach for Watford's under-23s and also was assistant coach for Canada in the Gold Cup & Nations League tournaments. He later joined Cardiff City as assistant manager in 2024.