Dean Austin

Where is Dean Austin now?

It is fair to say that Dean Austin isn’t a household name but the former defender was an important member of Tottenham Hotspur’s defence in the mid-nineties.

After leaving Spurs in 1998 due to the emergence of Stephen Carr, he spent four seasons at Crystal Palace before finishing his career in 2003 with non-league side Woking.

He ended his playing career having made over 400 first-team appearances.

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Upon retiring from playing, Austin went straight into coaching and spent a year with the youngsters at Watford’s academy before joining Farnborough Town as the club’s director of football.

He was in the job for a matter of weeks before he was asked to take over the team as manager just two weeks before the start of the season. However, during his time at the club there were a number of off-the-field problems and he left his post in February 2005.

However, he wasn’t out of work for long and joined Southend United in July 2005 as a coach and the club’s head of recruitment and enjoyed three successful years helping the side to two successive promotions before leaving to join Brendan Rodgers as his assistant manager at Watford.

Austin followed Rodgers when he left Watford to join Reading but this appointment was short-lived and the entire management team left six months later after a terrible run of form.

He then spent a year back at former side Crystal Palace as first team coach and under-21’s manager and then a year at Bolton Wanderers as a regional scout before a very brief spell at Notts County as Chris Kiwomya‘s assistant.

In January 2015 Austin re-joined Watford as Slavisa Jokanovic’s assistant coach where he played an important role in getting them promoted to the Premier League.

He stayed on at the club when Jokanovic left and spent the 2015-16 season working with Quique Sanchez Flores but left in May 2016 upon the appointment of Italian manager Walter Mazzarri who brought in his own Italian backroom staff to assist him.

Austin made a return to football in September 2017 when he joined Northampton Town as Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink’s assistant manager and ended up taking over first-team affairs on a caretaker basis when the Dutchman was sacked.

Although unable to save The Cobblers from relegation, the Northampton board appointed Austin as permanent manager for the 2018/19 season but his tenure was short-lived and he was sacked at the end of September after winning just one game.

A year later he made a return to Watford for the fourth time when he linked up once again with Quique Sanchez Flores as his assistant manager but unfortunately his time at the club came to and end in December 2019 when Flores and his backroom staff were sacked after a terrible start to the season where they recorded just one victory.

Away from the professional side of the game he coached young footballers at the Volenti Academy in St Albans as well as working at St Albans City’s academy as a technical advisor before joining current side Coventry City as their Head of Recruitment in 2022.

Follow on Twitter @dean316austin

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Dean Austin: Premier League Statistics

NationalityEngland
PositionDefender
Appearances124
Goals Scored0
Yellow Cards23
Red Cards0
Premier League Teams Played forTottenham Hotspur

Statistics courtesy of www.premierleague.com

Last Updated on 6 January 2023 by Admin