Mark James Dempsey (born 14 January 1964) is an English
football former player.
Dempsey was born in
Crumpsall
Crumpsall is an outer suburb and electoral ward of Manchester, England, north of Manchester city centre, bordered by Cheetham Hill, Blackley, Harpurhey, Broughton, and Prestwich. The population at the 2011 census was 15,959. Historically p ...
,
Greater Manchester
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. He played as a
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
in
The Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...
for
Manchester United
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of City of Salford, Salford to ...
,
Swindon Town
Swindon Town Football Club is a professional football club based in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The team currently competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club has played home matches at the County Ground sin ...
,
Sheffield United,
Chesterfield and
Rotherham United
Rotherham United Football Club, nicknamed The Millers, is a professional football club based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, which compete in the . The club's colours were initially yellow and black, but changed to red and white around ...
, and in
Non-League football
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for
Macclesfield Town
Macclesfield Town Football Club was an English professional football club based in Macclesfield, Cheshire, that was wound-up after a High Court ruling on 16 September 2020.
Initially known as Macclesfield F.C., the club was formed in 1874 and ...
. He was a youth coach with Manchester United before moving to Norway. He has six children, two of them adopted.
Managerial career
In February 2009, he took up a post in
youth development
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with
Tromsø IL
Tromsø Idrettslag is a Norwegian professional football club founded in 1920, based in the city of Tromsø. They play their home games at Alfheim Stadion. Tromsø play in the Eliteserien.
Tromsø have won the Norwegian Cup twice, in 1986 and ...
and the Northern Norway region. On 9 November 2010, Dempsey joined
Molde
Molde () is a town and List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Møre og Romsdal Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Romsdal. It is located on the Romsdal Pen ...
as part of new manager
Ole Gunnar Solskjær
Ole Gunnar Solskjær (; born 26 February 1973) is a Norwegian professional football manager and former player who played as a forward who last managed Premier League club Manchester United. As a player, Solskjær spent the majority of his ...
's backroom staff. He followed Solskjær to
Cardiff City in January 2014 as part of a new-look backroom staff after the sacking of
Malky Mackay.
Haugesund
In 2016, Dempsey was
FK Haugesund's manager after taking over from
Jostein Grindhaug
Jostein Grindhaug (born 20 February 1973) is a Norwegian football coach and former player. Hailing from Åkrehamn, he spent most of his active career with FK Haugesund.
Playing career
He started his career in Åkra IL, and was signed by then- ...
after the 2015 season. Dempsey resigned as manager of Haugesund on 14 July 2016.
Djurgården
In August 2016, Dempsey became manager of Swedish top-flight side
Djurgården
Djurgården ( or ) or, more officially, ''Kungliga Djurgården'' (), is an island in central Stockholm, Sweden. Djurgården is home to historical buildings and monuments, museums, galleries, the amusement park Gröna Lund, the open-air museu ...
.
Molde return
On 29 December 2016,
Molde
Molde () is a town and List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Møre og Romsdal Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Romsdal. It is located on the Romsdal Pen ...
announced that Dempsey had returned to the club as an assistant manager, working alongside
Erling Moe
Erling Hagset Moe (born 22 July 1970) is a Norwegian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Norwegian Eliteserien club Molde. In his active playing career, Moe played for Træff until he was aged 26 years.
Coaching ...
, on a -year contract.
Start
On 1 December 2017, Dempsey was appointed manager of
Start
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*Takeoff, the phase of flight where an aircraft transitions from moving along the ground to flying through the air
* Starting lineup in sports
* Standing start, and rolling start, in an auto race
Acronyms
* ...
On 18 May 2018, Dempsey got sacked by Start due to poor results.
Kongsvinger
Dempsey was announced as the new manager of Norwegian 2nd tier club
Kongsvinger
Kongsvinger () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Glåmdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kongsvinger. Other settlements in the municipality include Aust ...
on 11 June 2018.
Manchester United
Dempsey rejoined Manchester United after the departure of José Mourinho in December 2018 as part of caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær's coaching staff, taking on the role of a technical coach. In 2019 whilst Manchester United were on their pre-season tour of Australia Dempsey was struck ill and was admitted to hospital. He was subsequently off work for the next couple of months before returning to his role in December 2019.
In 2022 he was part of the coaching team that successfully guided Norway's U21s to qualifying for the European U21 finals in Romania and Georgia, summer of 2023.
Managerial statistics
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dempsey, Mark
1964 births
Living people
People from Moston, Manchester
English footballers
Association football midfielders
Manchester United F.C. players
Swindon Town F.C. players
Sheffield United F.C. players
Chesterfield F.C. players
Rotherham United F.C. players
Macclesfield Town F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. non-playing staff
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
Tromsø IL non-playing staff
Molde FK non-playing staff
Cardiff City F.C. non-playing staff
English expatriate sportspeople in Norway
Expatriate football managers in Norway
FK Haugesund managers
Djurgårdens IF Fotboll managers
English expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Expatriate football managers in Sweden
IK Start managers
Kongsvinger IL Toppfotball managers
English football managers
Eliteserien managers
Allsvenskan managers