| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Peter Andrew Shirtliff | ||
| Date of birth | (1961-04-06)6 April 1961 (age 63) | ||
| Place of birth | Hoyland,Barnsley, England | ||
| Position(s) | Central defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Sheffield Wednesday | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1979–1986 | Sheffield Wednesday | 188 | (4) |
| 1986–1989 | Charlton Athletic | 103 | (7) |
| 1989–1993 | Sheffield Wednesday | 104 | (4) |
| 1993–1995 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 69 | (0) |
| 1995–1997 | Barnsley | 49 | (0) |
| 1996 | →Carlisle United (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| Total | 518 | (15) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1994 | Wolverhampton Wanderers (caretaker manager) | ||
| 2005–2006 | Mansfield Town | ||
| 2012 | Bury (caretaker manager) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Peter Andrew Shirtliff (born 6 April 1961) is an Englishfootball coach and former player. As a player, he made more than 500 appearances inthe Football League playing as acentral defender forSheffield Wednesday,Charlton Athletic,Wolverhampton Wanderers,Barnsley andCarlisle United.[1] He has managedMansfield Town, and was appointed as a first-team coach atSwindon Town in 2019.[2]
Shirtliff was born inHoyland, nearBarnsley. He began his football career withSheffield Wednesday, where in two spells with the club he achievedpromotion from theSecond Division in 1983–84,[3] a third-place finish in theFirst Division in the 1991–92 season,[4] and aLeague Cup-winners' medal in1991,[5] but missed the1993 League Cup andFA Cup finals with a broken arm.[5] He played more than 350 games for the club in all competitions.[6] After his first spell with Wednesday, he joinedCharlton Athletic, where his two goals in the last 10 minutes of extra time in the 1986–87 playoff final replay[7] againstLeeds kept the club in the First Division.[8] He also played forWolverhampton Wanderers,Barnsley andCarlisle United).[1]
Shirtliff retired from the game in 1997, shortly after helping Barnsley reach thePremier League,[9] after 18 years as a professional footballer. He has since been youth team coach at Barnsley andLeicester City. In 2005, he was appointed assistant manager atMansfield Town. He became the manager of Mansfield following the dismissal ofCarlton Palmer in September 2005,[5] and lasted 15 months in the job before getting sacked in December 2006 following a poor run of results.[10]
In 2007, he was appointed assistant manager atTranmere Rovers,[11] and two years later took up the equivalent post atSwindon Town.[12] He was also assistant manager and caretaker manager ofBury before departing in 2013.
His younger brotherPaul was also a professional footballer.[13]
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