Darren Eales
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Amanda Staveley (2022–2024)
Jamie Reuben
Darren Eales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| CEO of Newcastle United | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 15 July 2022 – 26 September 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Leaders | Yasir Al-Rumayyan Amanda Staveley (2022–2024) Jamie Reuben | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Amanda Staveley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | David Hopkinson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 6 August 1972 Chelmsford, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Brown University University of Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Darren Eales (born 6 August 1972) is an English sports executive who most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of Premier League club Newcastle United.
He was previously a footballer who played both collegiately and professionally in the United States. He was a 1995 first team All American and earned his Cambridge Blue in 1998. In July 2010, he was appointed director of football administration at Tottenham Hotspur.[1] In 2014, he became Chief Executive Officer of Atlanta United in Major League Soccer.
Eales grew up in Cambridge, England. As he approached the end of his secondary education, he was faced with the decision of attending university or pursuing a football career. When approached by an American university scout offering him the opportunity to both play and attend university, he decided to move to the United States.[2]
Education and college football
Eales attended Brown University, a member of the Ivy League, playing on the school's NCAA Division I soccer team from 1991 to 1994. In his final season, he was the Ivy League Player of the Year and a first team All American. He received a first class bachelor's degree in economics.