Kevin Betsy

Early career

Betsy started his career at Woking, representing England at semi professional level and being named Conference Player of the Year in 1998. In September 1998, Betsy was signed by Fulham for a fee of £80,000, which would potentially rise to £125,000, with manager Kevin Keegan describing him as one of the best young players he had seen at his age. He made his debut at Anfield against Liverpool in the League Cup and spent three years at Fulham. Betsy's only goal for Fulham came in their victorious 1998–99 Division Two campaign against Millwall. He made five league appearances during Fulham's 2000/01 season after which they were promoted to the Premier League. He made one appearance in the Premiership for Fulham under Jean Tigana in a game against Manchester United at Old Trafford. He had loan spells at AFC Bournemouth and Hull City.

Barnsley and Oldham Athletic

On 1 March 2002, Betsy joined Barnsley on a one-month loan. After five appearances, Betsy was signed by Barnsley for a fee of £200,000 on 28 March 2002. He made over 90 appearances for the club and scored 17 goals and was the club's top goal scorer in 2002–03 season with 11 goals from midfield. Betsy had a short loan spell with Hartlepool United in August 2004, making six appearances and scoring once. On 8 September 2004, he signed for Oldham Athletic on a contract until the end of the season, after his Barnsley contract was terminated by mutual consent. At Oldham, he scored five goals and…

Betsy is of Seychellois descent and, after having rejected the chance to play for the Seychelles national team in 2005, was finally called into the squad and made his international debut against a visiting French league side on 3 June 2011, scoring twice in a 3–0 friendly victory. Betsy was called up to the Seychelles squad for the football tournament at the 2011 Indian Ocean Island Games. He started all five of the Seychelles' games in the tournament, scoring in the final against Mauritius, which finished 1–1. Betsy scored again in the resulting penalty shootout, which the Seychelles won 4–3.

In 2016, he was appointed head of England under-15s, having previously coached youth teams at Fulham. Having moved on to lead the U16 and U17 squads, Betsy was appointed head coach for England U18s on 24 September 2020. On 3 August 2021, Betsy was appointed head coach of Arsenal U23s. In his single season at Arsenal U23, Betsy took them from a 10th-placed finish in 2020–21 under Steve Bould to a 3rd-place finish, whilst implementing a "very fluid possession-based style of play" and using various formations, mainly variations on the 3-5-2 and 4-3-3 formations. On 6 June 2022, Betsy was announced as the new manager of EFL League Two club Crawley Town on an initial two-year contract. However, after a disastrous start to the league season Betsy left the club on 9 October 2022 following a 3–0 defeat to Grimsby Town which left the club bottom of the league. His most notable achievement was a 2–0 win over his former team Fulham in the EFL Cup. On 29 November 2022, Betsy was appointed as a first team coach for Championship club Wigan Athletic as part of new manager Kolo Touré's entourage, however left the club following Touré's sacking after only seven matches. On 19 June 2023, Betsy was announced as new assistant head coach at EFL League One club Cambridge United. On 3 July 2024, he left Cambridge to join Championship club Queens Park Rangers as the first team individual development coach.

In 2010, Betsy was studying for a BA Honours Degree in Professional Sports Writing and Broadcasting at Staffordshire University.