Dennis Sydney Viollet (20 September 1933 – 6 March 1999) was an English footballer who played for Manchester United and Stoke City as well as the England national team.

[6] He joined a team being re-built by Tony Waddington, containing experienced players such as Stanley Matthews, and Jackie Mudie and also emerging talent such as John Ritchie and Eric Skeels.

[3] Shortly after leaving the Victoria Ground, he came out of retirement to join NASL team Baltimore Bays in the United States for a season.

[3] On returning to Britain, he played for non-league Witton Albion, before finishing his career at Linfield helping them to win the Irish cup in 1970.

[3] On 22 May 1960, at the end of his record-breaking season with Manchester United, Viollet won his first full England cap in a 2–0 friendly defeat to Hungary in Budapest.

The team did not achieve a great deal of on-field success during his three-year tenure as the coach, only reaching postseason play once (1977) where they were eliminated in the first round.

[8] After being replaced in Washington, Viollett accepted the invitation of his former United teammate, Noel Cantwell, to serve as his assistant with the expansion New England Tea Men.

He stayed on for one more year as the team moved to the ASL's successor, the United Soccer League, but the Tea Men were still losing money and folded after the 1984 season.

[9][10] In 1985, Viollett became the coach of the varsity boys soccer team at St. Johns Country Day School located in Orange Park, Florida.

[3] In additional to his professional coaching career, Dennis Viollet made important volunteer contributions to youth soccer development in the Orange Park community near Jacksonville.

Dennis also ran youth soccer camps every summer in Orange Park at St. Johns Country Day School, where he would invite players from teams he managed, such as the Tea Men or Jacksonville University, to act as instructors.

[citation needed] Viollet died in March 1999 after a two-year battle against cancer, with a brain tumour first being diagnosed during 1997, despite treatment and surgery during that time to combat the illness.