Official: England hand Darren Moore his first international job with Under-20s
After a decade in the EFL trenches, Darren Moore is stepping onto the international stage: he is the new head coach of England's Under-20s.
Details: The FA confirmed Moore's appointment as a national coach, with the 52 year old taking charge of the men's Under-20 team for the 2026-27 season. His first tests come this month in the U20 EURO Elite League against Italy and France.
It is Moore's first job since leaving Port Vale in December, with the club bottom of League One, but his wider body of work earned the FA's trust: promotions with West Brom and Sheffield Wednesday, plus spells at Doncaster and Huddersfield. A former Jamaica international as a player, the popular coach now joins an England development pathway that has become a genuine production line, with the Young Lions setup feeding Thomas Tuchel's senior squad. For Moore, the role offers a clean slate and a different kind of pressure: shaping teenagers on the edge of first-team football rather than grinding out survival battles, with the next generation of English talent now his responsibility.
It's worth noting that Moore played internationally for Jamaica, so his first steps in international management come on the opposite side of his own playing allegiance.
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