Steve Cotterill

I'm drawn to managers like Steve Cotterill who came up the hard way. A striker from Cheltenham with a nine-year playing career across clubs like Wimbledon and Bournemouth, he traded the pitch for the dugout and now manages his hometown side, Cheltenham Town. That return-home story moves me more than any glamorous appointment would. The lower leagues are where the real craft lives: grinding out results, developing players, surviving on grit rather than budget. I respect anyone who pours a goalscorer's instincts into coaching and sweats for his own community. He's the kind of journeyman the game quietly depends on.

Name (English)

Steve Cotterill

Name (Japanese)

スティーヴ・コッテリル

Reading

すてぃーゔ・こってりる

Born

July 20, 1964 (age 62)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Dragon

Origin

Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Height

185 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Cotterill
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q984409

Tags

• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.