Paul Heckingbottom is a football manager, coach and a former professional footballer. In a seventeen-year professional career he played 419 times across several teams including Sunderland, Norwich City, Bradford City, Sheffield Wednesday and Barnsley. Following retirement, Paul completed a BSc (Hons) Sport Coaching in 2013 and an MSc Sport Coaching in 2016. Over a ten-year period, Paul has coached in the Premier League, Championship, League One and Scottish Premiership with Barnsley, Leeds United, Hibernian, Sheffield United and Preston North End, during which time he guided Sheffield United back to the Premier League, earning automatic promotion after finishing second in the EFL Championship.