Steve Cotterill

Who is Steve Cotterill?

Stephen "Steve" Cotterill is an English footballer and manager who is currently manager of Bristol City.

Cotterill had an eight-year career as a footballer playing for Burton Albion, Wimbledon, Brighton & Hove Albion and Bournemouth before deciding to take up football management. He began with Irish side Sligo Rovers and after a year he returned to England and took over at his home town club, Cheltenham Town. He did well at Whaddon Road guiding the club from the fifth tier to the third in five years. His success at Cheltenham led to Stoke City appointing him as their manager prior to the start of the 2002–03 season.

However after just 13 matches he quit to take up assistant manager position at Sunderland. He did not last long at Sunderland and joined Burnley in June 2004. After three years at Turf Moor he moved on to have a short spell at Notts County in 2010 and spent a season and a half at cash strapped Portsmouth. In October 2011 he was appointed manager at Nottingham Forest and he managed to guide the club successfully out of a relegation battle. He was dismissed by Forest in July 2012 after the club was taken over by the Al-Hasawi family.