Adam Owen

Owen was born and raised in Wrexham, North Wales. He signed as a professional player for Wrexham upon leaving school at the age of 16. After a loan spells at Newtown in the Welsh Premier League, he played for various clubs in the Welsh Premier League such as Connah's Quay and Cefn Druids. He also played for Scottish club East Stirlingshire during the 2005–06, season making 13 league appearances in the Scottish Football League.

Owen started his coaching career at Wrexham whilst still playing. Upon leaving Wrexham, he joined Scottish club Celtic. Following a two-year period working at Celtic Park under Martin O'Neill and Gordon Strachan as both Fitness and Academy Technical Coach, at the age of 25 years old, Owen joined Paul Sturrock's management team at Sheffield Wednesday, where he remained for 12 months in the English Championship, also working under Brian Laws. During his time at Hillsborough, Owen was approached and accepted the Head of Performance position at Rangers. Following seven years at Rangers, he moved to English club Sheffield United in May 2013 to take up the role of assistant manager. After twelve months in Sheffield, in the summer of 2014, Owen left to join Swiss club Servette on a three-year contract, adding a promotion and league championship at his time with the club. After completing his contract with Servette, Owen joined Polish Ekstraklasa club Lechia Gdańsk at the end of June 2017, becoming the head coach. He left his position in March 2018, citing a change of club philosophy as the reason. Following Lechia Gdańsk, Owen again joined up with Chris Coleman, signing a two-year contract as his assistant coach at Hebei China Fortune in the Chinese Super League, with Hebei CCFC narrowly missing out on the Asian Champions League places, having risen through the league. In January 2020, it was announced that having been approached, Owen accepted the dual-role as High-Performance and…

Owen was a part of the Wales management staff from August 2009 until March 2018, initially working under both Brian Flynn and Gary Speed. He was part of Chris Coleman's 2016 European Championships management staff reaching the semi-final stage. Owen remained in the Wales backroom team under new manager Ryan Giggs, but left his position following their 2018 China Cup Final appearance against Uruguay to relocate to the Chinese Super League.

Coaching

Club

Rangers Scottish Premier League: 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11 Scottish Third Division: 2012–13 Scottish Cup: 2007–08, 2008–09 Scottish League Cup: 2007–08, 2009–10, 2010–11 UEFA Cup Finalist: 2007–08 Servette Swiss Promotion League: 2015–16 Seattle Sounders MLS Cup: Finalist 2020 Lech Poznań Ekstraklasa Champions 2021–22

International

Wales China Cup: Finalist 2018 2016 European Championships: Semi Finalists