Mark James Dempsey (born 14 January 1964) is an English football coach and former player.
Dempsey was born in Crumpsall, Manchester. He played as a midfielder in The Football League for Manchester United, Swindon Town, Sheffield United, Chesterfield and Rotherham United. He later dropped into Non-League football with Barrow FC, Altrincham FC, Alfreton Town, Buxton FC and Radcliffe Borough amongst others. He was a youth coach with Manchester United before moving to Norway. He has six children, two of them adopted.
Managerial career In February 2009, he took up a post in youth development with Tromsø and the northern Norway region. On 9 November 2010, Dempsey joined Molde as part of new manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær's backroom staff. He followed Solskjær to Cardiff City in January 2014 as part of a new-look backroom staff after the sacking of Malky Mackay.
Haugesund In 2016, Dempsey was Haugesund's manager after taking over from Jostein Grindhaug after the 2015 season. Dempsey resigned as manager of Haugesund on 14 July 2016.
Djurgården In August 2016, Dempsey became manager of Swedish top-flight side Djurgården.
Molde return On 29 December 2016, Molde announced that Dempsey had returned to the club as an assistant manager, working alongside Erling Moe, on a -year contract.
Start On 1 December 2017, Dempsey was appointed manager of Start. On 18 May 2018, Dempsey was sacked by Start due to poor results.
Kongsvinger Dempsey was announced as the new manager of Norwegian 2nd tier club Kongsvinger on 11 June 2018.
Manchester United Dempsey rejoined Manchester United after the departure of José Mourinho in December 2018 as part of caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær's coaching staff, taking on the role of a technical coach. In 2019, whilst Manchester United were on their pre-season tour of Australia, Dempsey was struck ill and was admitted to hospital. He was subsequently off work for the next couple of months, before returning to his role in December 2019.
In 2022, he was part of the coaching team that successfully guided Norway's U21s to qualify for the European U21 finals in Romania and Georgia in the summer of 2023.
Managerial statistics
+ Managerial record by team and tenureTeamFromToRecordHaugesund1 January 201614 July 2016Djurgården3 August 20166 November 2016Start1 December 201718 May 2018Kongsvinger12 July 201813 November 2018Total
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