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{{short description|English football player and manager}}
{{Other people|Edward Newton}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2012}}
{{Infobox football biography
|name           = Eddie Newton
|image          =
|fullname       = Edward John Ikem Newton<ref name="Hugman2001-02">{{cite book |editor-first=Barry J. |editor-last=Hugman |title=The 2001–2002 Official PFA Footballers Factfile |year=2001 |publisher=AFS |isbn=9780946531349 |page=222}}</ref>
|birth_date     = {{birth date and age|1971|12|13|df=y}}<ref name="Hugman2001-02"/>
|birth_place    = [[Hammersmith]], England
|height         = {{height|ft=5|in=11}}<ref name="Hugman2001-02"/>
|position       = [[Defensive midfielder]]
|currentclub    = 
|youthyears1    = 1985–1990
|youthclubs1    = [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]
|years1         = 1990–1999
|clubs1         = [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] 
|caps1          = 165
|goals1         = 8
|years2         = 1992
|clubs2         = → [[Cardiff City F.C.|Cardiff City]] (loan) 
|caps2          = 18
|goals2         = 4
|years3         = 1999–2000
|clubs3         = [[Birmingham City F.C.|Birmingham City]] 
|caps3          = 4
|goals3         = 0  
|years4         = 2000 
|clubs4         = [[Oxford United F.C.|Oxford United]] 
|caps4          = 7
|goals4         = 0
|years5         = 2000
|clubs5         = [[Barnet F.C.|Barnet]] 
|caps5          = 4
|goals5         = 0
|years6         = 2000–2001
|clubs6         = [[Hayes F.C.|Hayes]] 
|caps6          = 6
|goals6         = 0
|totalcaps      = 204
|totalgoals     = 12
|nationalyears1 = 1993
|nationalteam1  = [[England national under-21 football team|England U21]]
|nationalcaps1  = 2
|nationalgoals1 = 0
|manageryears1  = 2008–2009
|managerclubs1  = [[Milton Keynes Dons F.C.|Milton Keynes Dons]] (assistant manager)
|manageryears2  = 2009–2011
|managerclubs2  = [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]] (assistant manager)
|manageryears3  = 2012
|managerclubs3  = [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] (assistant manager)
|manageryears4  = 2015–2016
|managerclubs4  = [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] (assistant manager)
|manageryears5  = 2019–2020
|managerclubs5  = [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] (assistant manager)
|manageryears6  = 2020
|managerclubs6  = [[Trabzonspor]] (assistant manager)
|manageryears7  = 2020
|managerclubs7  = [[Trabzonspor]]
}}

''' Edward John Ikem Newton''' (born 13 December 1971) is an English football manager and former professional [[Association football|footballer]].

As a player, he was a [[defensive midfielder]] from 1990 until 2001 notably for [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] where he scored in the [[1997 FA Cup final]]. He also played in the [[Football League]] for [[Cardiff City F.C.|Cardiff City]], [[Birmingham City F.C.|Birmingham City]], [[Oxford United F.C.|Oxford United]] and [[Barnet F.C.|Barnet]] and in the [[Conference National]] for [[Hayes F.C.|Hayes]]. He also earned two caps for the [[England national under-21 football team|England U21]] side.

Having begun his coaching career on the staff of [[Milton Keynes Dons]] and [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]], he returned to Chelsea where he served as assistant manager to [[Roberto Di Matteo]] before the latter was replaced by [[Rafael Benítez]]. In December 2015 he was reappointed as assistant manager to interim manager [[Guus Hiddink]]. In 2020 he had a brief spell in charge of Turkish side [[Trabzonspor]].

==Playing career==
Newton was born in [[Hammersmith]], [[London]].<ref name="Hugman2001-02"/> After making his way through the [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] youth system he was loaned out to [[Cardiff City F.C.|Cardiff City]] in January 1992, making his debut in a 4–0 win over [[Chesterfield F.C.|Chesterfield]]. Cardiff fell three points short of a play-off place and Newton returned to Chelsea. He played for Chelsea in the [[1994 FA Cup Final]], but his foul on [[Denis Irwin]] in the second half saw him cautioned and led to [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] receiving a penalty which was scored by [[Eric Cantona]]. He then made a defensive error which allowed United's [[Mark Hughes]] to make it 3–0.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk/1994.htm |title=Final details: 1994 Manchester United |access-date=1 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311060748/http://www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk/1994.htm |archive-date=11 March 2007}}</ref>

Chelsea went on to lose 4–0 but United had won [[Double (association football)|the double]] to qualify for the [[European Cup]], allowing Chelsea to play European football for the first time since the 1970s with a place in the [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup]]. Newton was part of the team that reached the semi-finals of the [[1994–95 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|1994–95 competition]] and also the semi-finals of the [[1995–96 FA Cup]].

Newton scored Chelsea's second, clinching, goal in the [[1997 FA Cup Final]] to seal a 2–0 win over [[Middlesbrough F.C.|Middlesbrough]]. He won the [[1998 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final|Cup Winners' Cup]] and [[1998 Football League Cup Final|League Cup]] with the club a year later, but was thereafter hampered in his quest for a starting place by injuries and manager [[Gianluca Vialli]]'s signing of French [[1998 FIFA World Cup|World Cup]]-winning midfielder [[Didier Deschamps]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 17, 2017|title=Where are they now? Chelsea's 1997 FA Cup winners|url=https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/where-are-they-now-chelseas-1997-fa-cup-winners|access-date=2021-05-28|website=fourfourtwo.com|language=en}}</ref>

He joined [[Birmingham City F.C.|Birmingham City]] in July 1999 on a [[free transfer (soccer)|free transfer]] before spending short spells at various lower-league clubs, including [[Oxford United F.C.|Oxford United]] and [[Barnet F.C.|Barnet]]. He retired due to a knee injury.<ref>{{cite web  | title = Where are they now? Eddie Newton  | newspaper=The Observer | date =11 May 2008   | url =https://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/may/11/chelsea  | access-date = 30 June 2009}}</ref>

==Management and coaching career==

On 2 July 2008 Newton was appointed assistant manager to [[Roberto Di Matteo]] at [[Milton Keynes Dons F.C.|Milton Keynes Dons]]. A year later, on 30 June 2009, Di Matteo was appointed head coach of [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]] and it was reported that Newton would be joining him at the club as assistant head coach.<ref>{{cite web
  | title =Di Matteo is new Albion boss
  | work =[[Express and Star]]
  | date =30 June 2009
  | url =https://www.expressandstar.com/2009/06/30/di-matteo-is-new-albion-boss/
  | access-date =30 June 2009
  | archive-date =26 September 2012
  | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120926132645/http://www.expressandstar.com/2009/06/30/di-matteo-is-new-albion-boss/
  | url-status =dead
  }}</ref> When Di Matteo was relieved of his duties in January 2011, Newton also left the club.

On 5 March 2012 it was announced that Newton would be joining the back room staff at [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]], supporting [[Roberto Di Matteo]]. Di Matteo had just taken over as interim Head Coach at Chelsea following the departure of [[André Villas-Boas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17260309|title=Roberto di Matteo wants Chelsea 'passion' after Villas-Boas exit|date=5 March 2012|work=BBC Sport|access-date=5 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/9123650/Eddie-Newton-joins-Chelsea-as-part-of-caretaker-manager-Roberto-Di-Matteos-backroom-staff.html|title=Eddie Newton joins Chelsea as part of caretaker manager Roberto Di Matteo's backroom staff|date=5 March 2012|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=5 March 2012}}</ref> In his short time as assistant manager at Chelsea he has won the [[UEFA Champions League]] and [[FA Cup]]. He currently helps to oversee the progress of Chelsea's loan players after having been assistant first team coach under [[Guus Hiddink]] in for the second half of the previous season.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chelseafc.com/teams/management-team/eddie-newton.html|title=Eddie Newton - Loan technical coach|website=www.chelseafc.com|language=en-gb|access-date=2017-05-24}}</ref> Following the departure of Hiddink, Newton returned to the loan technical coach role until 2019, when he became an assistant coach to the first team following the appointment of [[Frank Lampard]] as head coach.

He was appointed assistant manager at [[Trabzonspor]] in February 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2020/02/01/eddie-newton-joins-trabzonspor|title=Eddie Newton joins Trabzonspor &#124; Official Site &#124; Chelsea Football Club|website=ChelseaFC}}</ref>

On 2 August 2020, Newton was appointed by [[Trabzonspor]] on a permanent basis, after a successful period as caretaker winning the [[2019–20 Turkish Cup|Turkish Cup]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ntvspor.net/video-galeri/trabzonspor-da-eddie-newton-donemi-5f26d72a0ee4c62570b06306|title=Trabzonspor'da Eddie Newton dönemi|website=NTVSpor.net}}</ref> On 31 October 2020, he was sacked as the club's manager after winning just one of his seven games in charge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.trabzonspor.org.tr/tr/haberler/guncel-haberler/tesekkurler-31-10-2020|title=Teşekkürler|publisher=[[Trabzonspor]]|date=31 October 2020|access-date=2 November 2020|language=tr}}</ref>

==Personal  life==
Born in England, Newton is of Nigerian and Jamaican descent.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=36943|title=Ex-Chelsea Assistant Coach of Nigerian Descent Newton Appointed Trabzonspor Permanent Manager :: All Nigeria Soccer - The Complete Nigerian Football Portal|website=www.allnigeriasoccer.com}}</ref>

==Managerial statistics==
{{updated|match played 30 October 2020}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"	
|+ Managerial record by team and tenure			
|-
! rowspan="2" |Team
! rowspan="2" |Nat
! rowspan="2" |From
! rowspan="2"|To
! colspan="8" |Record			
!rowspan=2|{{abbr|Ref|Reference}}	
|-	
!{{Tooltip|G|Games managed}}
!{{Tooltip|W|Games won}}
!{{Tooltip|D|Games drawn}}
!{{Tooltip|L|Games lost}}
!{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
!{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
!{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}
!{{Tooltip|Win %|Winning percentage}}		
|-
|align=left|[[Trabzonspor]]
|Turkey
|align=left|20 July 2020
|align=left|31 October 2020
{{WDL|9|3|2|4|for=13|against=15|diff=yes}}
|
|-
!colspan="4"|Total
{{WDLtot|9|3|2|4|for=13|against=15|diff=yes}}
!—	
|}

==Honours==

===Player===
'''Chelsea'''
*[[FA Cup]]: [[1996–97 FA Cup|1996–97]]
*[[Football League Cup]]: [[1997–98 Football League Cup|1997–98]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.11v11.com/matches/chelsea-v-middlesbrough-29-march-1998-33388/ |title=Chelsea v Middlesbrough, 29 March 1998 - 11v11 match report |website=11v11 |publisher=AFS Enterprises |access-date=31 March 2024}}</ref>
*[[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup]]: [[1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|1997–98]]
*[[UEFA Super Cup]]: [[1998 UEFA Super Cup|1998]]

===Assistant Manager===
'''Chelsea'''
*[[FA Cup]]: [[2011–12 FA Cup|2011–12]]<ref name="coach"/>
*[[UEFA Champions League]]: [[2011–12 UEFA Champions League|2011–12]]<ref name="coach"/>

===Manager===
'''Trabzonspor'''
*[[Turkish Cup]]: [[2019–20 Turkish Cup|2019–20]]<ref name="coach">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53630537|title=Former Chelsea coach Eddie Newton is Trabzonspor's permanent boss|publisher=BBC|work=BBC Sport|date=2 August 2020|access-date=2 August 2020}}</ref>

==References & notes==
{{reflist}}

{{Trabzonspor managers}}

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