Dundee Football Club are extremely pleased to announce the appointment of two new coaches, Barry Nicholson and Glen Johnson. Barry Nicholson joins the club as Assistant Coach and Glen Johnson joins as Head of Goalkeeping.
Barry joins Steven Pressley’s coaching team as Assistant Coach and the pair will once again join up after they worked together at Fleetwood Town. Barry was Head of Player Development at Fleetwood, but on Steven’s arrival was promoted to the first team as a coach in 2015. Barry remained at Fleetwood before leaving in 2023. During his time at Fleetwood, he held a variety of positions such as Head of Player Development, Under 21’s Development Squad Head Coach, First Team Coach and First Team Caretaker Manager.
After leaving Fleetwood Town, Barry had time at Nottingham Forest as Professional Development Coach. His next position was as Assistant Manager to Callum Davidson at Queen’s Park before leaving in March of this year.
Barry will join Steven’s coaching team alongside fellow Assistant Coach Scott Paterson who remains at the club and David Longwell who was appointed as Technical Manager last month.
Glen joins Dundee as Head of Goalkeeping and has experience working in England, Scotland, America and India. In the past year Glen has been working with the Scotland Under 17’s squad where he coached former Dundee youth goalkeeper Alastair Graham who came through the SFA performance school at St John’s High. Glen’s most recent club role was as 1st Team Goalkeeping at Carlisle United, before that he spent three years at Queen’s Park as Head of Goalkeeping. He has also held the same role at Dagenham and Redbridge, West Ham United Women, Gillingham and Braintree Town. Glen has also worked internationally and has coached Pune FC in the Indian League as well as a spell in America with Crystal Palace Baltimore.
Glen will work with our three first-team squad goalkeepers, Trevor Carson, Jon McCracken and Harry Sharp as well as spending time working with our development squad goalkeepers.
Barry and Glen both bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to Dundee FC and we are delighted to have them both at the club.
