After seeing Steven Schumacher leave Home Park to take charge of Stoke City, Plymouth Argyle turned to former England Under-20 coach Ian Foster as his successor.
Foster, 47, had spent most of playing career in non-league and the lower reaches of the Football League with Hereford, Barrow, Kidderminster Harriers and Chester before moving into coaching.
As a manager, he started with Galway United in 2009, who he kept in the League of Ireland Premier Division before moving on to Dundalk. While with Dundalk, he led them into the Europa League before returning to England in 2012 to take up a role at Coventry City's Under-18 side and he oversaw the development of James Maddison, Callum Wilson and Cyrus Christie amongst others.
He was then appointed as first team coach at Portsmouth under Paul Cook. Foster then began coaching for the FA, working with the England Under-17, Under-18, Under-19 and Under-20 sides over a number of years and also served alongside Phil Neville during his spell as England Women's manager.
In 2023, he left the FA to work as Steven Gerrard's assistant in the Saudi Professional League at Al-Ettifaq before he returned to England to take charge of the Pilgrims.
