Ian Woan

January 10, 2024
Association Football Player

Quick Facts

Ian Woan
Full Name Ian Woan
Occupation Association Football Player
Date Of Birth Dec 14, 1967(1967-12-14)
Age 57
Birthplace Heswall
Country United Kingdom
Birth City England
Horoscope Sagittarius

Ian Woan Biography

Name Ian Woan
Birthday Dec 14
Birth Year 1967
Place Of Birth Heswall
Home Town England
Birth Country United Kingdom
Birth Sign Sagittarius
Parents Alan Woan

Ian Woan is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on December 14, 1967 in Heswall, England, United Kingdom. Ian Simon Woan (born 14 December 1967) is an English former footballer who is currently director of assistants at Burnley. He was an attacking midfielder between 1985 and 2004 and began his career in non-league football. The club signed him to Nottingham Forest in 1990, it was a club for ten years, which included one season playing in the Premier League. After leaving the club , he played for several teams that were both in England as well as within the United States, before retiring in the year 2005. The Woan family is from Alan Woan who also played professionally, including Northampton Town, Crystal Palace and Aldershot.

He was praised for his smooth left foot, his attacking style, shooting and crossing abilities, but criticised for his slowness, Woan established himself as one of the most well-known players within Forest. Forest team. Forest placed third during the 1994-95 season and secured an UEFA Cup place for the next year.

Following manager Frank Clark’s departure in December 1996, Woan’s Forest career began to suffer although the winger was the only player to play for the Reds in each year of the 1990s. During his ten-year spell at the club, Woan made 189 league appearances – as well as 32 substitute appearance – delivering 31 goals during his time.

Upon leaving Forest in 2000, and after a short trial with Bolton Wanderers, Woan signed for Swindon Town and in the 2000/01 season, producing three goals from 25 appearances.

On the 20th of April, 1992, Woan scored his initial goal of a 2-1 win against Manchester United at Old Trafford as Manchester United’s title fight was shattered in the midst of the final season of the former First Division.

Ian Woan Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Association Football Player
House Living in own house.

Ian Woan is one of the richest Association Football Player from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ian Woan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Woan was born from Heswall, Cheshire, Woan began his career in Manchester City but never made an appearance at the First Division club. He played for five seasons at the bottom of the table including stints in Heswall, Welsh sides Caernarfon Town and Newtown as well as Runcorn. His breakthrough came aged 22 on the 14th March in 1990, when the club joined the first division Nottingham Forest for a fee of around PS80,000.

Woan didn’t play for the Midlanders during the second half of the 1989-90 campaign, his debut came almost 10 months after joining the club. Woan made his debut on January 2 in 1991, playing as a substitute in a 6-2 win over Norwich City and went on to play in 12 games that season with three goals in the league. He was a starter in his game in the 1991 FA Cup Final against Tottenham Hotspur but was sent from the game after only 63 minutes to be replaced by Steve Hodge. Forest lost the game in extra time.

In the fifth round of the 1995–96 FA Cup, Woan scored two long-range free- kicks, the second from an acute angle, to secure a 2–2 draw with Tottenham. Woan later said “I knew I wouldn’t stand a chance [of taking the free kicks] had Stuart [Pearce] not been injured. I’ve tried that [the second free-kick] a hundred times and it always ends up in the Trent!” Forest went on to win the replay at White Hart Lane 3–1 on penalties after a 1–1 draw, with Woan converting his spot kick. Forest made it to the quarter-finals of both the FA Cup and UEFA Cup in 1995–96 but finished 9th in the league and failed to qualify for Europe. In the penultimate game of the season, Forest faced Newcastle United, who were still hoping to secure their first Premier League title. In an echo of his late intervention in 1992, Woan scored a long distance effort and the game finished 1–1. The title subsequently went to Manchester United.

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Who is Ian Woan Dating?

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On 30 October 2012, Woan linked up with former management partner Sean Dyche at Burnley The pair signed a three-year deal.

Facts & Trivia

Ian Ranked on the list of most popular Association Football Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ian Woan celebrates birthday on December 14 of every year.

Top Facts about Ian Woan

  1. Ian Woan played for 10 English football clubs.
  2. He scored 92 goals in over 500 appearances.
  3. Woan won promotion to the Premier League with Burnley.
  4. He was part of Nottingham Forest’s UEFA Cup-winning team.
  5. Woan earned one cap for the England B team.
  6. He retired from professional football in 2003.
  7. Woan later became a coach at various clubs, including Burnley and Watford.
  8. He is currently an assistant manager at Nottingham Forest.
  9. Woan has worked alongside former teammate Sean Dyche at Burnley since 2012.
  10. He was diagnosed with COVID-19 during the pandemic in June 2020 but made a full recovery.

What is Ian Woan doing now?

Woan still lives in Nottingham and for the past nine years, he has been assistant manager at Burnley to his best mate from those early Forest days, Sean Dyche, with his other former housemate at Forest, Steve Stone, now first- team coach at the club.

Did ian Woan play for england?

In 2002, Woan returned to England and signed for struggling Shrewsbury Town , who were at the bottom of the Third Division.

Who is Burnley's assistant manager?

Manager: Sean Dyche. Assistant: Ian Woan. Goalkeeper coaches: Billy Mercer and Fabian Otte. First-team coaches: Steve Stone and Tony Loughlan.

Who did Ian Woan play football for?

NationalityEnglish
Goals| 17
Yellow Cards| 21
Red Cards| 0
Premier League Teams Played for| Nottingham Forest

Who is the Burnley manager?

Dyche as manager of Burnley in 2013


Personal information
Full name| Sean Mark Dyche
Date of birth| 28 June 1971
Place of birth| Kettering, England

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