Nottingham Forest

Greek

George Syrianos

Chief Football Officer

Appointed Chief Football Officer at Nottingham Forest in July 2026, expanding a role held since June 2024. Joined as Head of Recruitment in 2021, dismissed in 2022 after a difficult transfer window, but continued advising the club through his own consultancy, Fenida, before returning in-house as Global Technical Director. Co-led recruitment processes behind three Head Coach appointments: Sean Dyche, Vitor Pereira and Glasner.

Portuguese

Pedro Ferreira

Technical Director

Joined Nottingham Forest in June 2024 from Benfica, where he spent 17 years in a variety of roles, initially as Head of Recruitment on a three-year deal. Promoted to Technical Director this summer, giving him greater input on overall football strategy. Co-led the recruitment process, alongside George Syrianos, that brought in Glasner as Head Coach.

English

Ed Henderson

Chief of Staff, Football

Returned to Forest in July 2026 in this new role, having earlier served as Head of Football Operations from September 2018, plus spells as Assistant Director of Football, Academy Secretary and Interim Director of Operations. Left in December 2025 for an expected move to Saudi Arabia that fell through. Previously Women’s General Manager at Watford.

English

Connor Barrett

Assistant Sporting Director

Promoted to Assistant Sporting Director from Global Recruitment Operations Manager. Sits within Forest’s recruitment structure alongside Ferreira and Head of PDP and Emerging Talent Recruitment Daniel Kelly. 

English

Harry Preston

Head of Football Operations

Joined Forest in September 2022 and was First Team Operations Manager before being promoted to Head of Operations. Oversees team logistics, manages budgets and approves first-team expenditure.

Austrian

Oliver Glasner

Head Coach

Named Forest’s new Head Coach in July 2026, becoming the club’s fifth manager in 12 months. Left Crystal Palace as their most successful ever manager, guiding them to a first major trophy — the 2025 FA Cup, before adding the FA Community Shield and  UEFA Conference League in 2026. Before that, took Eintracht Frankfurt to their first continental trophy in more than 40 years – the 2021/22 Europa League title. Made more than 550 appearances for SV Ried as a player and went on to manage them and has also led LASK in Austria and Wolfsburg in Germany.

Austrian

Michael Angerschmid

Assistant

Joined Forest in July 2026, following Glasner from Palace to the City Ground. Team-mate of Glasner’s during 14 years at SV Ried, where he made more than 400 appearances and won the Austrian Cup in 1998. Served as Glasner’s Assistant at LASK between 2015 and 2019, before working alongside him at Wolfsburg, Eintracht Frankfurt and Palace.

Austrian

Emanuel Pogatetz

Assistant

Capped 61 times by Austria and made 158 appearances for Middlesbrough during a playing career that also took in Bayer Leverkusen, Spartak Moscow, Hannover 96, Wolfsburg, West Ham, Nürnberg, Columbus Crew and Union Berlin. Assistant at LASK in 2020/21 and at SKN St. Pölten from June 2021 to October 2023. Then led Austria Vienna’s B Team before joining Glasner’s Palace staff as an Assistant in February 2024. Went with him to Forest in July 2026.

Australian

James Holland

Transition Coach

Joined Glasner’s staff at Palace in the summer of 2025, only a year after retiring as a player. Won 17 caps in midfield for Australia while playing for clubs in his home country, the Netherlands, Austria, Germany and China. Moved with Glasner to Forest in July 2026.

Austrian

Michael Gspurning

Goalkeeper Coach

A former Austria international keeper who was capped three times. Playing career took in Schalke 04, Union Berlin, PAOK Thessaloniki, Seattle Sounders, Xanthi and Platanias. Moved into coaching at Union Berlin and later with the Austria national team, before joining Glasner’s Forest staff.

Welsh

Wayne Hennessey

Assistant Goalkeeper Coach

Transitioned into this role immediately after announcing his retirement from playing in July 2025. Former Wales international (109 caps) played for Forest from 2022 to 2024 and made a brief return in early 2025.

New Zealand

Geoff Scott

Director of Performance

Worked at Tottenham for 20 years before leaving in August 2024 following differences with Ange Postecoglou. Had started as Senior Physio and rose to become Head of Medicine and Sports Science. Joined Forest in February 2026 with a remit of leading a unified medical and performance department. 

Austrian

Michael Berktold

Assistant/ Performance Coach

Served under Glasner at LASK, Wolfsburg, Red Bull Salzburg and Palace before moving to Forest with him. A sports science graduate with a UEFA A coaching licence

English

Adam Burrows

Performance Services Lead

Spent eight years with Derby County before moving with Frank Lampard to Chelsea as Strength and Conditioning Coach. Joined Forest as Head of S&C in July 2023, before being promoted to head of department at start of 2024/25, replacing Alek Gross.

English

Josh Bridge

Strength & Conditioning Coach

Joined Forest in summer of 2022 and responsible for player gym programmes.

English

Tom Evans

Performance Coach

Joined Forest as an intern in August 2020 and was promoted first to Assistant Sport Scientist and then, in June 2022, Sport Scientist.

English

Lauren Horner

Performance Coach

Joined in September 2023. Also doing a PhD at the University of Birmingham, in conjunction with the club.

English

Jonathan Alty

Head Physio

Joined in November 2023 and has extensive experience in other sports. Was a Physio for Nottinghamshire and England Cricket and then Head of Athlete Performance Health Services for UK Athletics. Has also been a Physio for England football. 

Portuguese

Carlos Sales

Senior Physio

Worked with Nuno Espirito Santo at Wolves and has extensive experience in his homeland, for clubs including Braga and Vasco, as well as working with the national referees. Joined Forest in February 2024.

English

Megan Wright

Physio

At the club since November 2021, moving into first team duties in September 2022. 

Greek

Dimitris Kaplanis

Physio

Joined Forest in June 2019. Previously had a short spell at Olympiakos. Studied at the University of Bath.

English

Mark Devonshire

Physio

Has worked for Forest since November 2017.

English

Sam Astley

Head of First-Team Analysis

Joined in October 2023 from Manchester City, where he was a first-team analyst. Worked for City for a total of nine years, for the Academy, loans department and first team. Prior to that worked for Manchester Thunder netball team.

English

Axl Rice

Set Piece Coach/ Analyst

Portuguese

Francisco Belo

Head of Data Insights

Was Everton’s Technical Coaching Analyst for six years before joining Wolves as First Team Football Research and Methodology Analyst in January 2021. This innovative role involved developing a “best-practice framework” and delivering trend and research analysis about Wolves’ performance, the performance of rivals in the Premier League and wider global trends. Replaced Dan Morris at Wolves in June 2024.

English

Adam Smith

Tactical Analyst

Worked for Wigan, latterly as their Head of Performance Analysis, before joining Forest in October 2023.

English

Gabriel Stephenson

Performance Analyst

With the club since June 2021. Graduate of Nottingham Trent University.