Darren Fletcher

Also known as Darren Barr Fletcher

Darren Barr Fletcher is a Scottish professional football coach and former player who is currently the head coach of Manchester United Under-18s. He also served as caretaker head coach of the Manchester United first team in early January 2026. Fletcher spent the majority of his playing career at United, winning 13 trophies including five Premier League titles and the UEFA Champions League. He mostly played as a central midfielder, but began his career as a right winger and also featured occasionally in defence.

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Darren Fletcher is a Scottish football coach and former professional player who spent most of his playing career at Manchester United, where he won 13 trophies including five Premier League titles and the Champions League. He now works as a coach at Manchester United, currently leading the Under-18 team and having briefly served as caretaker head coach of the senior team in early January 2026.

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Instance of: human
Given name: Darren
Family name: Fletcher
Gender: male
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Place of birth: Edinburgh
Occupation: association football coach
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Sport: association football
Member of team: Stoke City F.C.
Position played: midfielder
League: Premier League
Country for sport: Scotland
Mass: 74
Image: Darren Fletcher 2017 (cropped).jpg
Height: 183

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Commons category: Darren Fletcher
date of birth: 1984-02-01
birth name: Darren Barr Fletcher
name in native language: Darren Fletcher
start of work period: 2003-00-00
number of matches played/races/starts: 2
total goals in career: 1
coach of sports team: Manchester United F.C.

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Darren Barr Fletcher (born 1 February 1984) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player who is currently the head coach of Manchester United Under-18s. He also served as caretaker head coach of the Manchester United first team in early January 2026. Fletcher spent the majority of his playing career at United, winning 13 trophies including five Premier League titles and the UEFA Champions League. He mostly played as a central midfielder, but began his career as a right winger and also featured occasionally in defence.

Fletcher came through the ranks of Manchester United's Academy and spent 20 years with United, making 342 appearances for the club. With them, he won five Premier Leagues, one FA Cup, two League Cups, four FA Community Shields, the FIFA Club World Cup and the UEFA Champions League. Fletcher was included in the PFA Premier League Team of the Year for 2009–10. He was named vice-captain in his last season with the club. He joined West Bromwich Albion in February 2015, where he made 97 appearances. After leaving Albion in 2017, Fletcher had a two-year stint with Stoke City. He returned to Manchester United in a coaching capacity in October 2020, working with the club's under-16s players, before being appointed to the first team in January 2021. In March 2021, he became technical director at Manchester United.

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