Alexander Constantine Dyer (born 14 November 1965) is an English

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coach and former player. He is first-team coach at

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club

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. Dyer played mainly as a defender (he could also play in

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) for eleven clubs in a seventeen-year professional career. His achievements as a player include helping Blackpool win promotion to the Third Division in 1985 and Crystal Palace to the First Division in 1989.

Playing career

Dyer began his youth career at

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, but did not make a senior appearance for the club, signing instead for

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for whom he made 108 appearances between 1983 and 1987. He moved on to

Hull City Hull City Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. They compete in the , the second level of the English football league system. They play their home ...

in 1987 making 60 appearances, scoring 14 times, over the next two seasons. On 9 November 1988 Dyer signed for

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and made his debut on 12 November, as a substitute for

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in an away 0–2 defeat to

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. Redfearn moved on to

on 18 November and Dyer took his number seven shirt for the next six games before losing his place to

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, who signed from

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on 9 January 1989. Those seven appearances (one goal) made up Dyer's total for the 1988–89 season in which Palace achieved promotion to the top tier. Dyer remained at Palace for the 1989–90 season making 10 further appearances and scoring one other goal, before moving on to

Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic Football Club is a professional association football club based in Charlton, south-east London, England. The team compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system. Their home ground is ...

. He subsequently played for,

Oxford United Oxford United Football Club () is a professional association football, football club based in Oxford, England. The club compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football league system, English football. Founded as Headingto ...

, Lincoln City,

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, F.C. Maia (Portugal),

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and

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before moving into

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firstly with Kingstonian and then

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Coaching and management career

Having been employed for eight months as a PE Teacher in a South London school, in April 2004 he joined

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as assistant to sports scientist Tony Strudwick. His role at the club changed to conditioning coach in July 2007. and following

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's promotion to first-team coach, reserve team coach in September 2008. In January 2011 he left the Hammers to link up with

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as assistant manager at

. On 27 May 2014 Dyer was sacked from Charlton after the appointment of

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. Following the appointment of Powell as the new manager of

, Dyer, a former Terrier himself, joined the Yorkshire side as assistant manager on 3 September 2014. When Powell was dismissed on 4 November 2015, Dyer also left his post. On 7 April 2017 Dyer was appointed manager of

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until the end of the season. Despite being keen to continue in the manager's role, Welling announced a new management team for the coming season on 12 May 2017. Dyer was appointed as a first team coach at

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club

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in October 2017. He left Whitehawk within days to assist

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. Clarke was appointed

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manager in June 2019, and Dyer became his assistant there while he continued as assistant manager at Kilmarnock under

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. Dyer was made caretaker manager of Kilmarnock after Alessio was sacked in December 2019. After three games in caretaker charge, Dyer was appointed Kilmarnock manager to the end of the 2019–20 season. In June 2020, Dyer signed a permanent two-year contract with Kilmarnock. On 30 January 2021, Dyer left Kilmarnock by mutual consent. In June 2021 he joined

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as assistant manager to

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. On 19 January 2022, Dyer departed the club. Dyer was assistant to

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in Bulgaria. Dyer, who is black, left with Pardew on 1 June 2022 after what the manager described as a "small group of organised racist fans who tried to sabotage this match" against

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on 19 May.

Career statistics

Managerial record

*initially caretaker.

References

External links

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Lincoln City F.C. Official Archive Profile
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