About David Moyes
David William Moyes (born 25 April 1963) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player, who is the manager of Premier League club Everton. He was the 2003, 2005 and 2009 League Managers Association Manager of the Year. Moyes made over 540 league appearances as a centre-back in a playing career that began with Celtic, where he won a championship medal. He then played for Cambridge United, Bristol City, Shrewsbury Town, and Dunfermline Athletic, ending his playing career with Preston North End. He became a coach at Preston, working his way up before taking over as manager in 1998, his first managerial position. Moyes led Preston to the Division Two title in 1999–2000 and the Division One play-off final the following season. Moyes became manager of Everton in 2002. The club managed a fourth-place finish in the league in 2004–05, their highest since 1988, and played in the qualifying rounds for the UEFA Champions League the following season, the first time since 1970–71. Moyes led Everton to a runners-up finish in the 2008–09 FA Cup, their best performance in the competition since winning in 1995. Everton consistently finished between fifth and eighth in the league under Moyes, and at the time of his departure, was the longest-serving manager in the league behind Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsène Wenger, at 11 years and 3 months. Moyes succeeded Ferguson as manager of Manchester United in June 2013, but with the club 7th in the league in April 2014 and unable to qualify for European competition, he was dismissed. Moyes was appointed head coach of Spanish club Real Sociedad in November 2014, but was dismissed after a year in charge. In 2016, he replaced Sam Allardyce as manager of Sunderland, but resigned at the end of the 2016–17 season after the club was relegated to the EFL Championship. Moyes was appointed manager of West Ham in November 2017 and led the club out of the relegation zone to a 13th-place finish, but left at the end of the season when his contract was not renewed. He was appointed at West Ham for a second time in December 2019, following the dismissal of Manuel Pellegrini. During his second stint, West Ham achieved two consecutive top-seven finishes in the Premier League, before victory in the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League, defeating Fiorentina in the final to achieve the club's first major silverware in 43 years. Moyes left West Ham in 2024, and returned to Everton the following year. Moyes enjoyed a career that encompassed playing at a number of clubs, usually as a centre-back, beginning at Celtic, where he won a championship medal and made 24 league appearances, and ending with Preston North End.
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