Damon Shaw
UEFA A Futsal Coach with experience in Spain, UK, Malta and Malaysia. Experience in the UEFA Futsal Champions League as well as many International tournaments and events
Date of Birth (Age): Feb 23, 1984 (37)
Place of Birth: Blackburn
Citizenship: British
Club: N/A - open to listen to interesting projects in developing teams & nations, or assisting an experienced coach in a top league.
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: 4
Longest time at club: 8 seasons (Middlesbrough)
Cups: 3
Leagues: 0
Promotions: 1
Relegations: 0
Best league finish: 3rd
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
Tactics
Preferred formation
3-1
Playing mentality
Attacking
Pressing style
High
Marking style
Individual
Coaching style
Calm
Career history
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
