Steve Clarke

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Steve Clarke

0Full Name	Stephen Clarke
0Date of Birth	29 August 1963
0Place of Birth	Saltcoats, Scotland
Player
0Position	Right back
0Chelsea career	1987-1998
0Debut	24 January 1987
0Games (goals)	421 (10)
0Other clubs	St Mirren
Staff
0Years	c.2004-2008
0Role(s)	Youth Team Coach Assistant First Team Coach
0Other clubs	Newcastle United West Ham United Liverpool West Bromwich Albion

Steve Clarke is a former right-back who joined Chelsea from St Mirren for £422,000 in January 1987. A dependable player, he was with the club as they were relegated in 1988, promoted again in 1989, and won their first major trophies since the 1970s: the FA Cup, the League Cup and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. He was named Chelsea's Player of the Year in 1994 and in 2005 was voted into Chelsea's Centenary XI.^[1]

Clarke left Chelsea in the summer of 1998 to be assistant manager to Ruud Gullit at Newcastle United. He returned to Chelsea as a youth coach, and when new manager José Mourinho took over in 2004, he appointed Clarke as his assistant. Clarke was with the club as they won two Premier League titles, two League Cups and an FA Cup. Clarke remained at Chelsea after Mourinho's departure, before leaving the club in 2008 to be assistant to Gianfranco Zola at West Ham United, which was followed by a stint as first team coach under Kenny Dalglish at Liverpool.

Statistics

Season	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Europe		Other¹		Total
Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1986–87	16	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	18	0
1987–88	38	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	6	0	48	1
1988–89	36	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	39	1
1980–90	24	3	3	1	2	1	0	0	3	0	32	5
1990–91	18	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	23	1
1991–92	31	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	37	1
1992–93	20	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	22	0
1993–94	39	0	8	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	50	0
1994–95	29	0	3	0	2	0	5	0	0	0	39	0
1995–96	22	0	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	31	0
1996–97	31	0	7	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	41	0
1997–98	26	1	1	0	6	0	7	0	1	0	41	1
Total	330	7	36	1	26	1	12	0	17	1	421	10