Luke Williams (footballer, born 1981)


Luke Williams is an English football coach and former footballer who played non-league football. He was most recently Head Coach of League One club Swindon Town.

Coaching career

Luke Williams started his coaching career working as an FA Skills Coach and moved on to the youth set-ups at Grassroots football club Colebrook Royals FC in Chigwell Essex, Leyton Orient and West Ham United.
Williams later became a development coach at Brighton & Hove Albion where he managed the U21 for three years and also coached the reserves. During his time at Brighton.

Swindon Town

In 2013, Luke Williams was appointed First Team Coach at Swindon Town and was instrumental in bringing in former Brighton development players Yaser Kasim and Raphael Rossi Branco, both of whom would become regular starters for the Wiltshire side.
Williams worked as assistant to Mark Cooper and helped get Swindon Town reach the 2015 League One Play-Offs before losing to Preston North End in the final.
When Mark Cooper was sacked by Swindon Town during the early stages of the following season, Williams worked as assistant to caretaker manager-chairman, Lee Power, and Cooper's eventual replacement Martin Ling. On 30 December 2015, he was appointed caretaker manager following Ling's sudden resignation. In his first two games in charge, Williams led Swindon to home victories of 4–2 against Southend United and 4–3 against Crewe Alexandra from losing positions, with late winners from Nicky Ajose on both occasions. On 21 January 2016, Williams was appointed permanent manager of Swindon Town until the end of the 2015—16 season.
Williams was appointed as head coach on 9 March 2016 on a 5-year contract, after winning 6 of his 10 games in charge as interim manager.
On 5 May 2017, it was announced Williams had left Swindon by mutual agreement after relegation to League Two was confirmed.

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