Stephen Gallen (born 21 November 1973) is a London-born Irish football coach who is the Director of Football at Millwall Football Club.
Coaching and managerial career
Queens Park Rangers Gallen was employed for almost two decades at Queens Park Rangers, and first joined the Academy coaching setup in 1997, as the under-12s coach. In December 2009, he and fellow academy coach Marc Bircham jointly assumed managerial duties for a match against West Bromwich Albion, after manager Jim Magilton was suspended; the game finished 2–2. He was in the position of Senior Professional Development Coach, coach of the QPR U21 side, from 2014 to 2015, when he was promoted to First Team Coach. He left the club on 30 January 2016.
Gallen has two brothers, Joe and Kevin, both of whom played for QPR before also joining the coaching staff.
Pegasus On 23 June 2016, Pegasus announced that Gallen would be the club's manager from the 2016–17 Hong Kong Premier League. He left the club on 3 November 2016 after struggling to adapt to Hong Kong culture.
Charlton Athletic On 19 April 2017, Gallen joined Charlton Athletic as the club's Head of Recruitment. Steve was appointed as Director of Football on 10 January 2020 soon after Charlton Athletic was taken over by East Street Investments. Gallen departed Charlton on 2 August 2023.
Montserrat On 9 September 2023, he took over as assistant manager of the Montserrat national football team under Lee Bowyer.
Millwall On 10 May 2024, Gallen was announced as the new Director of Football at Millwall.
Managerial statistics
TeamNatFromToRecordGWLDWin %Queens Park Rangers(caretaker manager, with Marc Bircham)16 December 200917 December 200910010%Pegasus23 June 20163 November 2016622233.33%Total 7 2 2 3 28.57%
Honours
As manager
Queens Park Rangers under-18s
Football League Youth Alliance Cup winner: 2009–10 Football League Youth Alliance South East Conference champion: 2010–11, 2011–12 Professional Development under-18 League Two champion: 2012–13 Esad Osmanovski Memorial Cup runner-up: 2013 Newark International Soccer Classic winner: 2013
Queens Park Rangers under-21s
Professional Development under-21 League Two runner-up: 2013–14
As Director of Football
League One Play off winners: 2019
References