 Bignot playing for Queens Park Rangers in 2005 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Marcus Bignot[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 22 August 1974[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Birmingham, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Right back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Swindon Town (assistant head coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Birmingham City | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–1996 | Telford United | 149 | (14) |
| 1996–1997 | Kidderminster Harriers | 43 | (1) |
| 1997–2000 | Crewe Alexandra | 95 | (0) |
| 2000–2001 | Bristol Rovers | 26 | (1) |
| 2001–2002 | Queens Park Rangers | 44 | (1) |
| 2002–2004 | Rushden & Diamonds | 68 | (2) |
| 2004–2007 | Queens Park Rangers | 128 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | → Millwall (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | Millwall | 15 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | Oldham Athletic | 0 | (0) |
| 2010 | Kidderminster Harriers | 5 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Brackley Town | 2 | (0) |
| 2012–2016 | Solihull Moors | 2 | (0) |
| Total | 585 | (19) | |
| International career | |||
| 1997 | England C | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1998–2005 | Birmingham City Ladies | ||
| 2011–2016 | Solihull Moors | ||
| 2016–2017 | Grimsby Town | ||
| 2017 | Barrow (interim assistant) | ||
| 2017–2018 | Chester | ||
| 2018–2022 | Guiseley (joint manager) | ||
| 2021 | Aston Villa Women (interim) | ||
| 2023–2024 | Shrewsbury Town (assistant) | ||
| 2024– | Swindon Town (assistant) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Marcus Bignot (born 22 August 1974) is an English football manager and former professional player. He is currently assistant head coach of Swindon Town.
Bignot's playing career spanned nearly 20 years, primarily as a right back, but he has also been used in a midfield role. He began his career at Telford United in 1992 where he spent four years in the Football Conference there. He then joined Kidderminster Harriers, he was part of the team that won the Conference League Cup, also in the 1996–97 season the Harriers came runners-up in the Football Conference. First Division side Crewe Alexandra paid £100K for him in the summer of 1997, he went on to be the player of the year in the 1997–98 season. Contractual disputes ended with a switch to Second Division side Bristol Rovers taking him on a free transfer for the 2000–2001 season. Management change made way for a move to First Division side Queens Park Rangers in March 2001 under his previous manager. A successful two-year spell at Rushden & Diamonds where he helped them gain promotion to the Second Division in the 2002–03 season as Champions. A move back to QPR in March 2004 where he helped them gain promotion to the Championship. Further spells at Millwall, Oldham Athletic before ending his playing career in 2012 at Solihull Moors.
A former England semi-pro international, he was capped in May 1997 for the England C national football team against the Scottish Highland Football League at Cove Rangers FC, near Aberdeen, where the England C Team won 5–0, with Lee Hughes, a teammate of Bignot's with Kidderminster at that time, and Barry Hayles of Stevenage, both to go on to play in the Premier League, in the England C team that Saturday afternoon in the North of Scotland.
Bignot enjoyed a successful seven-year management career, when he took over at Birmingham City Ladies from 1998, winning the Midland Combination League, AXA Northern Premier League and Runners-up of the FA Women's Premier League Cup. Bignot having managed Solihull Moors for five years, he got them promoted as champions of the National League North and the Birmingham Senior Cup champions in 2016, for the first time in their entire history.
In June 2024 he became assistant manager at Swindon Town.
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- ^ "Marcus Bignot". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 30 December 2019.