Warren Moon

**Warren Moon** (born 27 May 1982) is an Australian association football manager and former player who currently serves as manager of Premier League club Leeds United.

## Career

Moon completed his schooling at Marist College Rosalie in Brisbane and joined the Brisbane Strikers from 2003 in the National Soccer League(NSL). He played in the 2003 and 2004 seasons before the NSL was superseded by the Australian A-League. Moon was signed by Queensland Roar for the 2005 inaugural A-League season. He played with the Queensland Roar, where he made 14 appearances and scored 2 goals.

At the end of the 2005 season, Moon travelled to Scotland to trial with Hibernian.

When Moon was not offered a contract with Hibernian, he signed with Queen of the South on 31 August 2006. Moon then returned to Australia after struggling with injury and signed as a coach/player for Brisbane Premier League First Division team Eastern Suburbs in 2008.

Moon took charge of Eastern Suburbs in the Brisbane Premier League Division 1 for 2008. In his first full year of coaching he took the club from 10th the previous year to champions, on the way making it to the Premier Cup Grand Final where they were beaten on penalties by Peninsula Power. 2009 Moon signed for the Brisbane Strikers in the Queensland state league. After securing the 2009 QSL champions medal, Moon signed for the 2009 Brisbane Premier League champions Peninsula Power.

In 2012 Moon was appointed head coach along with longtime friend and player Scott Macnicol. At the end of the 2014 season he was offered head coach of Queensland Lions, where he once trained with the Queensland Roar. Moon also coached the Anglican Church Grammar School First XI, with his last season at the school being in 2019.

Warren Moon was head coach of the First XI at Anglican Church Grammar School. In 2019, he coached the school to their first GPS Football premiership.

## Managerial Career

Moon left the school after accepting an offer to become the new General Manager of the Brisbane Roar Academy in 2019.

### Brisbane Roar

On 16 July 2020 the Roar appointed Moon to the A-League head coaching role replacing interim coach Darren Davies after winning just 3 games in his 18 match spell.

During the 2022-2023 season, Moon led Brisbane Roar to a domestic double, winning both the premiers and the finals.

### Celtic

Moon left the club a year later in 2024, becoming interim head coach at Celtic towards the end of the 2023-2024 season, before being hired as the full-time manager at the club.

In his first season, he was knocked out of the UEFA Champions League qualifying stages, and managed to reach the Round of 16 in the UEFA Europa League. Celtic were ultimately the runners-up for the 2024-2025 Premiership, however, they managed to beat Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup final.

During the 2025-2026 season, he led Celtic to a treble, winning the Europa League after being knocked out of the qualifying rounds of UEFA Champions League, the Scottish Cup, and the Premiership with a record of 44-8-4. He left Celtic at the end of the season in order to join Arsenal in the Premier League, a team he had beaten 5-0 a few months earlier.

### Arsenal

During the 2026-2027 season, he won the Community Shield, and the Carabao Cup, however, Arsenal were knocked out in the Preliminary Round of the Europa League, Round 5 of the FA Cup, and finished 7th in the Premier League.

During the 2027-2028 season, they spent a record £117,164,811 on Croatian defender Joško Gvardiol. Despite a season-long battle with Manchester City for the title, they ultimately came short and finished 2nd. However, they were able to win the UEFA Conference League.

During the 2028-2029 season, Arsenal missed out on the Community Shield to Manchester City. They did not win any trophies this year, Moon was ultimately sacked 5 games before the season ended. Whilst Arsenal finished 6th in the league table.

### Leeds United

Moon joined Leeds United as interim head coach for the final 5 games of the Premier League, where he managed to pull Leeds United out of the relegation zone after an impressive 5 game winning streak, beating the likes of Liverpool and Wolves. Leeds finished 15th that season, and he was hired full-time for the next season.

During the 2029-2030 season, Leeds United broke the club record fee by signing Gabriel Vernon for £100,000,000. Leeds finished the season in 12th place, with the club having a record of 18-14-13.

During the 2030-2031 season, Leeds United sold Gabriel Veron for a club record of £129,000,000. They brought in an upcoming Egyptian winger named Abdelwahab Sayed for £97,000,000.

## International management

### Brazil

Warren Moon served as an assistant coach for Brazil in the 2030 squad that won the World Cup.