Warren Garton Joyce (born 20 January 1965) is an English football manager and former player, who is currently the lead coach of Nottingham Forest's U21 squad.
After taking over as player-manager of Hull City in 1998, he eventually moved to Belgium, where he was appointed manager of Manchester United's feeder club Royal Antwerp in 2006.
[citation needed] At the time of his appointment, City were rooted to the foot of the 4th Division table and looked to be heading out of the Football League – and into bankruptcy.
[6] Whilst still a senior player at Hull City, Joyce was asked to step in as caretaker in 1998 eventually taking over as player-manager, where he managed to turn around the season and kept the club away from relegation.
Joyce helped the club achieve back-to-back playoffs in the Challenger Pro League and developed local talents such as Mohamed Cisse and John Utaka who were sold for over £2m.
Joyce oversaw the development of talents such as Marcus Rashford, Paul Pogba, Jesse Lingard and Adnan Januzaj into the 1st team and established himself as the most successful reserves manager ever in the club's history by winning 6 Premier League titles, 2 runners-up finishes and 9 major international cups in 8 years.
[10] After 6 years at Manchester United Reserves, Joyce was appointed as the manager at Wigan Athletic in 2016, where he oversaw the sale of Yanic Wildschut for £8.5m after an initial signing of £300,000.
[11] In 2017, Joyce joined Australian A-League side Melbourne City FC, where he took the club to a 3rd place finish, semi-final position in the playoffs and quarter-finals of the Australia Cup in his 1st season.
He also oversaw the sale of Daniel Arzani for an A-League record of $8m and promoted talents such as Riley McGree, Connor Metcalfe, Denis Genreau and Nathaniel Atkinson.
[13] In 2021, Joyce was appointed as the U-18s development coach at Nottingham Forest, where he reached the FA Youth Cup final for the first time in the club's history in 2022.