Richard Shaw (footballer)
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Richard Shaw in 2025. | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Richard Edward Shaw | ||
| Date of birth | 11 September 1968 | ||
| Place of birth | Brentford, England | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | 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, correct 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-23 side coach from 2013 in a role he held until 2019. In 2021 Shaw became assistant coach for Watford's under-23s and in 2024 joined Cardiff City as assistant manager.