Damon Shaw
Head coach of Solomon Islands, with experience in Spain, UK, Malta, Malaysia, Poland & Sweden. Experience in the UEFA Futsal Champions League and FIFA Futsal World Cup, as well as many international tournaments and events.
Date of Birth (Age): Feb 23, 1984 (39)
Place of Birth: Blackburn
Citizenship: British
Current position: Head coach Solomon Islands
Qualifications: UEFA A Futsal (RFEF
Level 2), UEFA B Futsal, Monitor Futsal, FA Futsal Level 2, FA Football Level
2. CRB checked, licensed coach. FA Futsal Tutor.
Stats below only as head coach in national leagues/cups (i.e. not junior, university, or as assistant)
Career stats
Number of club manager jobs: 7
Longest time at club: 8 seasons (Middlesbrough)
International tournaments: 1
National Cups: 3
National League titles: 0
Promotions: 1
Relegations: 0
Best league finish: 3rd
Melanesian Futsal Cup Champion: 2023
British University Champion: 2007, 2010, 2012
BUCS Trophy: 2009
FA Futsal League North: 2009
FA Futsal Plate: 2010
Biggest win: 19-0 vs East Coast (h), 8 April 2012
Biggest defeat: 1-10 vs Luxol (n), 7 March 2019
Best cup finish: Quarter final
Best league position: 3rd
Career history
Head coach of Solomon Islands National Futsal Team
Head coach of Skoftebyns IF Futsal in the Svenska Futsalligan
Head coach of Śląsk Wrocław in the 2. Liga in Poland.
I was performance analyst for the Kurukuru in the World Cup in Lithuania.
Head coach for Perak FA in the Malaysia Premier Futsal League. Season cancelled due to covid-19 after 2 months. Perak didn’t enter a team into the MPFL 2021.
Head coach & technical director
- Worked in Malta as technical director for the futsal section of Swieqi United
- Senior team head coach
- Academy coach
- Projects include: developing a new futsal academy; setting a technical syllabus for the club’s futsal provision; scouting players and recruiting for the senior team and u21s
Head coach
- First team manager
- Promoted in first season to Super League
- Competed with top teams with a young squad in the Super League. Including a 3-3 draw with Helvecia, and an unfortunate 6-5 defeat to champions Reading Escolla.
- Academy manager
- Developed club academy structure from 5s through to adult, coaching the coaches and some of the teams.
- Head coach.
- Finished 2nd in both BUCS leagues.
Under-14 Assistant coach
- Assistant coach in the top league in Spain
- Over 40 matches, 120 training sessions
- Runners-up in the Spanish Cup, losing to FC Barcelona in the
final - Analysed and scouted opposition for all 30 league/cup matches
- Led one third of all training sessions, goalkeeper training
and physical training
Under-19 B, head coach
- First coaching role in Spain
- Finished in team’s highest ever position, 7th in
the Third Division - 3 players promoted to the A team
Assistant coach
- Competed twice in the preliminary round of the UEFA Futsal Cup
in Sweden (2013) and Poland (2014) - Assistant coach to former Cyprus national team coach in 2013
- Assistant coach to Steve Chatila in 2014
- FA Futsal League North winners 2009
- National league finals (Playoff/Super League) 2009, 2012, 2013
- FA Futsal Cup plate winner 2010
- 8 international players
- British University Futsal Championship winner 2007, 2010, 2012
- British University Futsal Championship Semifinal 2008, 2011
- British University Futsal Trophy winner 2009
- Played twice in the European Universities Futsal Championship and holding the highest ever finish for a British team, 11th place in 2010
