Brian Wake (born 13 August 1982) is an English former footballer who played as a striker. He currently works as a youth coach at Viborg.
Wake's notable contributions in football have been a hat-trick at Shrewsbury to keep Carlisle in The Football League, winning a first division title medal with Hamilton Accies (although he had left for Morton in January 2008) and four goals in Morton's last three games of season 2007âÂÂ08 (including a double at Firhill against Partick Thistle) to keep them in Division One.
Wake signed a new contract in May 2009, along with Alex Walker, for another year at Morton.
Wake scored the 50th league goal of his career against Airdrie United in November 2009.
Wake signed for Gateshead on 26 January 2010, making his debut as a 55th-minute substitute in a 2âÂÂ0 defeat to Kettering Town. Wake scored his first goals for Gateshead on 6 February against Mansfield Town. He was made available for transfer by Gateshead on 13 January 2011 after only managing to make 7 substitute appearances up to then during the 2010âÂÂ11 season. Two days later, Wake scored his first goal of the season as a second-half substitute in a 6âÂÂ0 win in the FA Trophy against Hampton & Richmond Borough. On 10 March 2011, it was announced that Wake had secured a move to an unnamed Swedish club on a two-year contract, the club was later revealed to be ÃÂstersunds FK.
He made his competitive debut for ÃÂstersund against Friska Viljor in the first round of the 2011 Svenska Cupen, scoring four goals in a 6âÂÂ1 victory. Interviewed for PAFC managers position 2019-20
On 25 July 2012, Wake signed for Superettan side UmeÃÂ¥. He made his debut on 4 August 2012 in a 0âÂÂ1 loss to Hammarby. He scored his first goal for UmeÃÂ¥ on 13 August 2012 in a 1âÂÂ0 win over Jönköpings Södra. In January 2013 it was announced that Wake would return to ÃÂstersund where he would play for IFK ÃÂstersund combined with working as first-team coach for his former club ÃÂstersunds FK.
Wake combined playing part-time for Ytterhogdals with coaching at ÃÂstersund. He took over as player-manager of Ytterhogdals ahead of the 2016 season. In 2018, he took over as manager of LuleÃÂ¥ but left halfway through the season to return to coach at ÃÂstersund. In February 2021, he moved to Denmark to coach at Kjellerup. Later in the year, he joined Viborg to take over their under-17 side.
Carlisle United
Hamilton Academical
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