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The Management
Avram Grant was originally appointed as director of football in July 2007 after he joined us from Portsmouth where he had held the same role.
At the age of 52, Avram then became first team coach when José Mourinho left in September 2007. Steve Clarke remained as his assistant.
Before moving to Fratton Park, Avram managed the Israeli national side that narrowly missed out on qualification for the 2006 World Cup after finishing unbeaten in a difficult group stage, which included eventual qualifiers France and Switzerland.
His coaching career began when he was appointed into the senior position at Hapoel Petach Tikva. Avram led his home town club to an unexpected second-place finish in the 1990/91 and as well as succeeding in two Toto cup triumphs (the equivalent of the League) during his stay there.
His achievements did not go unnoticed and he was soon employed by Maccabi Tel-Aviv where, in his first season, he won the Israeli championship with a 13 point advantage over their nearest rivals. Avram was denied a famous double however when the side lost in the final of the Israeli cup.
However the cup soon arrived in 1994 and was followed with another championship in 1995 before he moved to rivals Hapoel Haifa for a short but disappointing spell, finishing fourth in the Israeli championship.
In 1997, Avram returned to Tel-Aviv, capturing one more Toto Cup in 1999 before taking on the coach's role at Maccabi Haifa, in 2000.
It was there that Avram experienced his greatest successes in club football to date, leading the club to two league championships in two years, as well as the 2002 Toto Cup, consolation for defeat in the national cup final the same year which denied Avram his treble.
His credentials are also highlighted by the emergence of talents such as Yossi Benayoun and Aiyegbeni Yakubu during his stewardship, and the success of the side he built in becoming the first Israeli team to reach the group stages of the Champions League following his departure for the national team role.
At the age of 46, Avram was the youngest man ever to manage Israel's national team and went on to become the country's most successful manager of all time with an overall record of 14 wins, 13 draws and 6 loses during his 33 games in charge.
In 2006 Avram announced he would not be renewing his contract with Israel and was soon appointed into his position alongside Harry Redknapp at Portsmouth where he made until the call came to move to Stamford Bridge.
 Steve Clarke is our assistant first team coach and has worked under the last nine Chelsea managers, either as player, scout, coach or assistant manager.
He was promoted from youth team coach to assistant manager when José Mourinho arrived in 2004, helping the new management team with his vast knowledge of both the Premier League and the club.
Steve had first arrived at Stamford Bridge in 1987,joining us as a player from the Scottish League, and he went on to become the fifth highest appearance maker in Chelsea history, mostly at right-back but in later seasons in central defence.
Voted Player of the Year in 1994, Steve's loyalty throughout some tough years was rewarded during his final seasons as a player when he won the FA Cup, League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup. He was also a Scottish international.
The 1998 Cup Winners' Cup final against Stuttgart was Steve's last game for Chelsea as early the next season he took up a coaching position with former Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit at Newcastle United.
When Gullit left Newcastle, Steve stayed on at St James' Park as caretaker manager before working under Bobby Robson until leaving in 2000.
He came back to Stamford Bridge, originally accepting a scouting post before he was soon promoted to the youth team job which he held until the arrival of Mourinho.
Working out of the spotlight, he has played a major role in the collection of six pieces of silverware won since 2004.
An important link with the club's past as well as very much part of our present, Steve represents the ultimate in continuity in the management and is a Chelsea legend.
Henk ten Cate is best known for being part of the Barcelona setup that won the 2006 Champions League, but he has a rich coaching history that dates back as far as 1988.
Chelsea is the 52-year-old's first English club, having already had coaching spells in Germany and Hungary as well as Spain and his native Holland.
His most recent post was as first team coach at Dutch giants Ajax, whom he joined from Barcelona at the start of the 2006/7 season.
At the Amsterdam ArenA, Ten Cate led his side to 2nd in the Eredivisie, losing out on the title on goal difference, by just one goal, to rivals PSV Eindhoven.
In that season, Ajax scored 85 goals in their 34 league games, losing just five all season.
In Catalonia, Henk's achievements alongside manager Frank Rijkaard are well known.
Arriving at the Nou Camp with his countryman Rijkaard in 2003, he set about revitalising a flagging Barcelona, culminating in the Champions League success of 2006. They had knocked Chelsea out along the way, and the style with which that side played clearly captured Chelsea's attentions.
On the field, Barca were inspired by the form of Ronaldinho, with whom Henk is credited with getting the best out of during his spell at the Nou Camp.
As a player, Ten Cate was a winger in the Marc Overmars or Arjen Robben mould, capable of playing on either wing, but never at the highest level. In just over 200 games, he scored 34 goals, the majority for Go Ahead Eagles, as well as loan spells at NASL side Edmonton Drillers and Telstar. He finished his playing career in 1986 with Heracles.
By 1988 Henk had returned to Go Ahead as assistant and then manager, repeating this sequence in 1990 when he rejoined Heracles, before moving on to amateur side FC Rheden where he had previously been a player.
After just one season with Rheden, he returned to Go Ahead, before taking over at Sparta Rotterdam for two years, and then Vitesse Arnhem in 1997.
After a season there, Henk moved to Germany with Uerdingen, and then spent a year in Hungary with MTK Hungaria, before three years with NAC Breda, where he caught the attention of Rijkaard, and was invited to join him at Barcelona.
Christophe joined Chelsea in November 2007 from Rennes, where he had previously worked with Petr Cech.
He had been at the French club since 1999, in which time he has taken care of a host of top class goalkeepers. As well as cech, he mentored French international Michaël Landreau, Andreas Isaksson, Christophe Revault and Patrice Luzi, formerly of Liverpool.
His time there has coincided with the club's best ever period, regularly battling for European football at the top end of the French league. When he joined the club, he began working in the Academy, but quickly rose up the ladder to work with the first team, where he met a young Cech during the 2003/4 season.
Much like Avram Grant, Christophe never played at the top level, although as a youth, he would train once a week with Nantes, where he occasionally got to share a training pitch with future Chelsea players Marcel Desailly and Didier Deschamps.
Realising that his path in football lay with coaching, at the age of 24, he gave up the amateur game and became a coach with Ancenis near Nantes.
His role there was to build an academy, and he eventually achieved success that led to Rennes offering him a post.
Goalkeeping has long been his love, choosing the position as a child because of the individuality of the strip, and the ability to use hands as well as feet.
Christophe is renowned in his homeland for his qualities of hard work, attention to detail and communication, and all at Chelsea welcome him to his new role.
The post of goalkeeper coach became available after Silvino Louro left the club with José Mourinho. Formerly with Reading, Glen moved to Chelsea in 2003/4, where he began as Academy physio before working his way up to the first team via the reserves.
Having gained degrees in both sports science and physiotherapy, from Teesside and the Univeristy of East London respectively, he spent four years at the Madejski Stadium.
Upon arriving at Stamford Bridge, Driscoll worked on sports science and physiotherapy programmes with our Academy and reserve sides, before starting work as the head of injury prevention at the beginning of this season.
He has now been promoted by Avram Grant, and is in charge of the fitness aspects of each training session.
Michael Emenalo became well acquainted with Avram Grant when a player at Maccabi Tel-Aviv where Grant was manager.
That was between 1998 and 2000, the tail end of a playing career for the now 42-year-old who became a Nigerian international in 1985.
A defender, he moved to the United States in 1986 where he graduated from Boston University three years later with a degree in international relations with political sciences, having also played college soccer.
His football career continued in Belgium and Germany before a short spell in England at Notts County in the mid 1990s with whom he won the Anglo-Italian Cup at Wembley.
Michael then returned to the States where he played in the first ever MLS game for San Jose Clash.
After one season, it was back to Europe and a year in the Spanish second division with Llieda, managed by current Sevilla coach Juande Ramos. Then came the move to Israel.
Michael won 14 caps for Nigeria in total and played in the 1994 World Cup in the USA, missing the first game through injury but then playing against Argentina and Greece before he was knocked out by a Roberto Baggio-inspired Italy.
After hanging up his boots, Michael has spent time coaching in America. At the start of the 2005/6 season, Mick moved up to work with the first team squad after ten years in charge of the reserves.
His first Chelsea job was in 1990 - nine months looking after the youth team having previously coached West Ham's first team.
He moved on to coach and then manage Ipswich before returning to Chelsea and his long spell of service with our second string.
As a player, Newcastle-born Mick played with Sunderland and West Ham, the latter signing him to replace England's World Cup winning captain Bobby Moore.
As a Chelsea coach, he has played his part in developing the current England captain, as well as many other youngsters who have grown into first team players throughout the divisions.
In the summer of 2006, Brendan became manager of the reserve team having worked as youth team manager for the previous two years.
A native of Northern Ireland, previously he had been youth coach and Academy manager at Reading where he had been a player until injury ended his career prematurely.
Club doctor in charge of the extensive medical department, Bryan was previously the doctor for UK Athletics.
He's a long-time Chelsea supporter and marathon runner.
In charge of global scouting, Frank is an ex-Danish international who played for Ajax, Valencia and Anderlecht.
As general manager of PSV Eindhoven he discovered Arjen Robben and Eidur Gudjohnsen.
He joined Chelsea from Tottenham in September 2005.
Paul Clement was promoted through the Academy to become our new youth team manager in June 2007.
He first began his association with Chelsea in 1994 when he was appointed on a part-time basis to coach the Under 15s.
He then moved onto Fulham to take up a full-time position, working as youth team coach there for six years, but in 2005, he moved back across London SW6.
That was to become coach of the Under 16s schoolboy side where he remained until given his current role.
Paul, who is the brother of former Chelsea youth product and current West Brom defender Neil Clement, is also assistant manager to the Northern Ireland Under 21 side.
He was one of the coaches who took part in Chelsea's trip to Ghana in conjunction with our global charity partner Right to Play in 2007.
Neil joined the Chelsea schoolboys coaching staff part-time in 1993 and has worked his way up.
In 2002 he was appointed assistant academy director with a responsibility for the Under 8-16 age group and in the summer of 2004, he took charge of the Academy.
A Chelsea supporter, he is the prominent figure in Sky One's Football Icon talent search, run in conjunction with Chelsea Football Club.
Chelsea's computer man, James measures our own team's performances and helps assess and dissect opponents, producing videos for the manager's requirements.
A former Grimsby Town junior.
Alex Nieper
Club doctor. Formerly with Fulham, his main responsibility is with the reserve team.
Dave Hancock
Performance physio. Joined midway through the 2006/7 season from Leeds, he has also worked at Wolves and Blackburn. The man you'll see running on the pitch to treat the injured. A lifelong Chelsea fan.
Thierry Laurent
Rehabilitation physio. Works with the most injured players. Formerly the French national physio.
Glen Driscoll
Injury prevention physio. Formerly Reserve and Academy physio.
Silvano Cotti
Masseur who has joined the Chelsea pool from Italy having worked at AC Milan and Inter Milan.
Mauro Doimi
Masseur. Formerly with Sampdoria and Lazio.
Billy McCulloch
Masseur who works with England. Previously worked with Scotland.
Pedro Phillipou
Masseur. Formerly with the English Institute of Sport.
Stewart Sullivan
Masseur. Previously worked with Reading and Watford.
Nick Broad
Nutritionist and sports scientist. Previously worked with Blackburn and Birmingham.
David Barnard
Director/Club secretary responsible for the day-to-day administration side of the club.
Gary Staker
Player liaison officer and administrative manager. A Chelsea supporter.
Terry Ellis
Senior kit manager. Previously employed at Watford and the David Beckham Academy.
Mick Roberts
Assistant kit manager. A Chelsea supporter.
Frank Steer
Players' assistant. A Chelsea supporter.
Alan Barrett
Players' assistant. Karl Halabi
Reserve team fitness coach. Formerly with Fulham where he worked with the first team.
Mark Beeney
Reserve team and Academy goalkeeper coach. Formerly a goalkeeper with Leeds.
Stuart Searle
Assistant reserve team and Academy goalkeeper coach. Also registered as a player.
Chris Jones
Academy fitness and conditioning coach, previously with Fulham and England Under 19s.
Ben Smith
Performance analyst for reserves and youth. Previously with Fulham.
Steven Hughes
Academy physio. Been with Chelsea since 2001.
Stuart Vaughan
Academy assistant physio, responsible for 9-16s. Formerly with Fulham part-time.
Hans Gillhaus
In charge of Chelsea's international scouting network having worked as an international scout for PSV Eindhoven. Played for Holland at the 1990 World Cup and won the European Cup with PSV in 1988.
Lee Congerton
Academy chief scout. Focusing on England and the local area. Formerly Academy director at Wrexham.
Gary Worthington
UK and international scout, formerly with Manchester United and Leeds United Academies.
Gerry Harvey
Academy education and welfare officer. Previously a central defender in Scotland.
Kevin Campello
Assistant education and welfare officer.
Dermot Drummy
Under 16s coach. Recruited last summer from the Arsenal academy. A former midfielder at Blackpool.
Eddie Newton
Under-16s assistant coach. Played 214 times for Chelsea, scoring in the 1997 FA Cup win. Has coached in the Academy since 2001.
Jim Fraser
Academy assistant manager in charge of 7-14 year olds. Formerly Swindon Youth development officer.
Bob Orsborn
Academy coach and youth development officer. One-time first team kitman.
Michael Beal
Academy coach for under-9s and youth development officer overseeing local development centres.
Joe Edwards
Academy technical support officer. A former Chelsea schoolboy. A Chelsea supporter. |
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