Gifton Ruben Elisha Noel-Williams (born 21 January 1980) is an English former football player and manager.
Born in Islington, Noel-Williams started his professional career at Watford where he spent a seven-year spell playing 127 games and scoring 43 goals.
Noel-Williams joined Stoke City on a free transfer on 2 June 2003, playing 83 games and scoring 23 goals in two years.
On 31 January 2007, Noel-Williams joined Real Murcia for a fee of around £50,000, signing an 18-month deal and becoming only the second English player to represent the Spanish side, after Tom Thompson, who was player-coach in the 1920s.
[4] In January 2009, Noel-Williams moved to the United States to join American team Austin Aztex FC, signing a two-year contract.
[6][7] He signed with the amateur DFW Tornados of the USL Premier Development League in 2010,[8] but the club folded at the end of the 2010 season.
[9] In 2011, while still living in the United States, Noel-Williams was an assistant soccer coach at Brentwood Christian School, a private academy in Austin.
[10] Upon returning to England, he worked as a coach at Westfield Academy school in Watford, before being appointed as the Reserves and Under-18's manager at Northwood in June 2016.
[12] In October, he signed his 18-year-old son Dejon, a youth team striker at Oxford United, on a work experience deal.
[19] In January 2021, Noel-Williams became a striker coach at Portsmouth on a part-time basis, in addition to his work for the Professional Footballers' Association.