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David Moyes
Personal information
Full name	David William Moyes
Date of birth	April 25, 1963 (age 43)
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Nickname	Moyesy, The Moyesiah, Gollum
Playing position	Manager
Club information
Current club	Everton
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1980-1983 1983-1985 1985-1987 1987-1990 1990-1993 1993 1993-1998	Celtic Cambridge United Bristol City Shrewsbury Town Dunfermline Athletic Hamilton Academical Preston North End	024 0(0) 079 0(1) 083 0(6) 096 (11) 105 (13) 005 0(0) 143 (15)
Teams managed
1998-2002 2002-	Preston North End Everton
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

David William Moyes (b. April 25, 1963 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a football manager and former player. He is currently the manager of Everton F.C.. He has twice been named, in 2003 and 2005, as the 'League Managers' Association manager of the year', and is rated as one of the best young managers in English football. Moyes demands high fitness levels from all his players and is a talented motivator.

Contents 1 Career 2 Player Honours 3 Managerial Honours 4 Managerial stats 5 External links

After bringing Preston North End F.C. to within a game of returning to the highest level of English league football for the first time in forty years (they lost in the playoff final to Bolton Wanderers F.C.) he was hired to take charge of Everton F.C., then barely staying in the FA Premier League, and turned them around to finish towards the top of the table in 2002/2003.

Moyes quickly established a great rapport with the fans at Goodison Park, referring to Everton as "The People's Club" soon after arriving. This phrase has been adopted as a semi official title for the club.

He stated "It's a great honour, something which I could only dream about, you start out in your career as a player and you try to get the top, I consider a move to Everton as getting as close to the top as you possibly can"

Notably Moyes gave a 16 year old called Wayne Rooney his first Premiership reappearance. However, Rooney would leave Everton for Manchester United F.C. after the abysmal 2003/04 season, leading many pundits and experts to tip them as a favorite for relegation. Due in no small part to Moyes, Everton confounded virtually all of the experts in 2004/05 by staying near the top of the table for most of the season. They eventually finished fourth, assuring them entry into the UEFA Champions League competition, although they did not actually qualify. Moyes famously celebrated the feat by sipping champagne during a live interview on Sky Sports.

Moyes was ridiculed by football managers, players and fans the world round shortly after an interview he conducted with Sky Sports after the fantastic 2004/2005 season. When asked what he his target was for the next season, he simply said - 'To finish higher than this season'. Radio City phone-ins were bombarded with furious Evertonians branding Moyes a 'Fantasist' and 'Delusional'. Barry Horne admitted on Radio City that Moyes comments were foolish. Even Sky Sports pundit and self confessed David Moyes fan Andy Gray scorned Moyes's comments.

However, Moyes maintains he holds high ambitions for Everton. Whilst fans doubt they can reach the heights and go beyond fourth place in the Premierships in the foreseeable future, under Moyes Everton have undoubtedly made many improvements to the team - including the acquisition of top Premiership footballers such as Joseph Yobo, Mikel Arteta, Tim Cahill and Andrew Johnson.

After an uneventful career as a player (he was a journeyman centre half with Celtic, Preston North End and Shrewsbury Town), Moyes' managerial style has been praised by several pundits, and great things are expected for him and Everton in future years if he can build upon the success achieved in the 2004-05 season.

However, the club made a disappointing start to the 2005-06 season: exiting from European competition at the first hurdle and languishing in the league table. Nevertheless, after becoming the first team to take points off Chelsea in that season, the season improved steadily. He was named the Premiership Manager of the Month for January 2006 during a long unbeaten run in the league, and the club eventually finished in eleventh place. Indeed, after astute signings and a positive pre-season, great things were expected of the team ahead of the 2006/2007 season.

Thus far, Everton are challenging for a European place once again in the English Premiership and Moyes recently celebrated his five year anniversary at the club.

• Scottish youth & schools international
• Scottish Premier League championship
• English Third Division championship
• English Associate Members' Cup

LMA Manager of the Year 2002-03

LMA Manager of the Year 2004-05

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Preston North End		January 12, 1998	March 15, 2002	234	113	63	58	48.29
Everton		March 15, 2002	Present	220	85	83	52	38.6

• David Moyes career stats at Soccerbase
• David Moyes management career stats at Soccerbase
• David Moyes profile at the League Managers Association

Preceded by Gary Peters	Preston North End F.C. manager 1998-2002	Succeeded by Kelham O'Hanlon (caretaker)
Preceded by Walter Smith	Everton F.C. manager 2002-Present	Succeeded by Incumbent

Everton F.C. - Current Squad
1 Wright | 2 Hibbert | 3 Naysmith | 4 Yobo | 6 Arteta | 7 Van der Meyde | 8 Johnson | 9 Beattie | 11 McFadden | 15 Stubbs | 16 Lescott | 17 Cahill | 18 Neville | 19 Valente | 21 Osman | 22 Vaughan | 23 Pistone | 24 Howard | 26 Carsley | 28 Anichebe | 30 Ruddy | 36 Boyle | 37 Fernandes | 38 Anderson | 41 Viðarsson | Manager: Moyes