Mark Cooper

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This article is about the English football player and coach. For the 19th Century United States Congressman from the state of Georgia, see Mark Anthony Cooper.

Personal information
Mark Cooper

Full name	Mark Nicholas Cooper
Date of birth	December 18, 1968 (age 38)
Place of birth	Wakefield, England
Nickname	Coops, Cooperman
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Hinckley United
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1987-1989 1989-1991 1990 1991-1992 1992-1994 1993 1994 1994-1996 1996-1997 1997 1997-1998 1998-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2007 2007-	Bristol City Exeter City Southend United (loan) Birmingham City Fulham Huddersfield Town (loan) Wycombe Wanderers Exeter City Hartlepool United Macclesfield Town (loan) Leyton Orient Rushden & Diamonds Hednesford Town Forest Green Rovers Tamworth Hinckley United	0 (0) 50 (12) 5 (0) 39 (4) 14 (0) 10 (4) 2 (1) 88 (20) 31 (9) 8 (2) 1 (0) 17 (8) 24 (4) 48 (18) 104 (31) 5 (0)
Teams managed
2004-2007	Tamworth
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 01:01, 2 March 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Mark Cooper (born 18 December 1968 in Wakefield, England) is an English footballer. He was most recently the player/manager of Nationwide Conference side Tamworth, where he played in midfield. He is the son of former Leeds and England full-back Terry Cooper.

[edit] Playing career

Cooper's football career started back in 1987, where he first appeared on the books of Bristol City as a trainee, but never made any first-team appearances for the club.

After two seasons with the Robins, Cooper moved on to Exeter City, managed by his father, in October 1989. He played 50 games and scored 12 goals for southern club.

During his time with The Grecians, Mark went on loan to Southend United, where he only made 5 appearances.

In September 1991, Cooper joined Birmingham City. He played a total of 39 games, and scored 4 goals for the midlands club.

Cooper's next club was in Greater London with Fulham, where he was subject of a £40,000 price tag. He had a brief loan spell with Huddersfield Town while at the London club in 1993.

After only fourteen games for the club, Cooper moved on, but stayed in the vicinity, by joining Wycombe Wanderers, before returning for a second spell with Exeter City in February 1994.

Two seasons later seen Cooper on the move again, this time he was going north to Hartlepool United, where he made 31 appearances and scored 9 goals for the club.

Coopers third and final loan spell was with local side Macclesfield Town in September 1997. He was only on loan for two months and made just 8 appearances, but did manage to find the net on 2 occasions.

In December 1997, Cooper joined Leyton Orient on a non-contract basis, before moving on to Rushden & Diamonds.

After two years with the club, Cooper moved on to Hednesford Town. Cooper then moved on to Forest Green Rovers. At his time with The Lawners, he was club captain and named Supporter's Player of the Year.

This was his final team before joining Tamworth as a player in May 2002.

[edit] Managerial career

At the start of the 2003-04 season Mark was appointed Player/Assistant Manager at Tamworth and moved up to manager following the departure of Darron Gee for the 2004-5 season.

During his time as Tamworth manager, Cooper managed to get them into the third round of the FA Cup in two consecutive seasons. The first time they played against Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium and ended up forced them into a replay at their own ground, of which the game decided on penalties and the following season they played against Norwich City, they lost 4-1.

On January 24, 2007, he left Tamworth F.C by mutual consent.