Chris Bart-Williams

Early career

Bart-Williams began his professional career at the age of 16 with Leyton Orient and scored on his debut, a 4–0 win against Tranmere Rovers on 2 February 1991. He made 36 league appearances with the club and scored twice.

Sheffield Wednesday

Sheffield Wednesday showed interest in him and subsequently bought him for £275,000 in November 1991 , during their first season in the old Division One, finishing 3rd in the league that season. Once with Sheffield Wednesday, Bart-Williams was immediately given a first-team place. He began his career playing as an attacking midfielder. On 12 April 1993, he scored a hat-trick against Southampton in a 5–2 win. Bart-Williams played for Wednesday as a substitute in the 1993 FA Cup Final replacing Chris Waddle in the first game and Roland Nilsson towards the end of the replay. Bart-Williams also helped the Owls reach the Football League Cup semi-finals in the 1993–94 season and also appeared in their short-lived UEFA Cup campaign (the club's first European run since the 1960s) the previous season.

Nottingham Forest

After four years, he moved to Nottingham Forest for the sum of £2.5 million. His manager at the City Ground was Frank Clark, who had given him his senior debut at Leyton Orient. Bart-Williams had a successful spell with Forest, and even though he played as a defensive midfielder he managed to score 35 goals, even being the club's top scorer in the 2000–01 season, and was often clinical from…

After retiring from professional play, Bart-Williams moved to the United States to coach alongside former U.S. women's national soccer team head coach Tony DiCicco. He served as an assistant for the Boston Breakers, a team in the WPSL. He also was head coach of their reserve squads under the SoccerPlus Connecticut club. Bart-Williams joined the Quinnipiac University men's soccer programme as an assistant coach, helping to lead them to a 2013 MAAC championship and the first round of the NCAA soccer tournament. He also served as an assistant coach for the Quinnipiac University men's soccer team for six years. Bart-Williams ran an international soccer training and college recruiting service, CBW Soccer Elite, placing talented student-athletes in American college soccer programmes. Bart-Williams was also a consultant to Charlotte Soccer Academy's U.S. Soccer Development Academy programme and was the head of Gulliver Schools' boys' soccer programme in Miami, Florida. In February 2022, Dade County F.C. announced he had been appointed as head coach to oversee all their football programmes.

Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Bart-Williams grew up in North London and attended The School of St. David's and St Katharine's in Hornsey.

Sheffield Wednesday FA Cup runner-up: 1992–93 Nottingham Forest Football League First Division: 1997–98 England U19 FIFA World Youth Championship third place: 1993 Individual Nottingham Forest Player of the Year: 2000–01 PFA Fans' Player of the Year: 2000–01 First Division