Michael Beale (football coach)

On 1 June 2022, Beale was appointed first team coach at Championship side Queens Park Rangers. With QPR top of the Championship in October 2022, Beale was approached by Wolverhampton Wanderers to become their new manager, but apparently turned them down.

On 28 November 2022, Beale accepted an approach to leave QPR and manage Rangers, where he had worked previously as the first team coach under Steven Gerrard. QPR fans criticised the manner of his exit, as Beale had affirmed his commitment to the club just weeks beforehand, after rejecting a managerial position at Wolves citing his “loyalty and integrity.” Beale had a successful start to his Rangers managerial career, winning all of his first four matches in charge, whereby he was named Scottish Premiership manager of the month for December.

In November 2021, Gerrard was offered the role of manager at Aston Villa, following the sacking of Dean Smith. Beale and McAllister followed him to the Premier League club.

In January 2017, Beale, a long-time fan of South American football, took the opportunity to move to Brazilian club São Paulo, learning Portuguese to act as assistant to Rogério Ceni. However, six months later, Ceni and his backroom team were sacked after a string of poor results.

After admitting to becoming somewhat frustrated with the lack of progression of young players into Chelsea's first team since the takeover of Roman Abramovich in 2003, Beale took an offer to work at the Liverpool Academy, beginning as the coach of the Under-16s team, before progressing to become coach of the Under-23s. It was in this role that Beale first worked alongside Steven Gerrard, who was coaching the Liverpool Under-18s at the time.

Beale's next step in football was to invest some of the money he had made as a youth player into setting up a futsal club for children in his hometown of Bromley, South London. It was while training children here that he caught the attention of Chelsea Academy boss Neil Bath who, in 2002, offered him a role as a part-time youth coach at their Cobham Training Centre. As a coach of Chelsea's Under-7s and Under-9s squads, he worked with future Premier League footballers Tammy Abraham and Dominic Solanke.

Michael Beale (born 4 September 1980) is an English football coach who currently manages Scottish Premiership club Rangers.