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Stuart Baxter
Date of birth	August 16 1953 (1953-08-16) (age 54)
Place of birth	Birmingham, England
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1971-75 1975-76 1976-77 1981 1982 1983	Preston North End Dundee United Stockport County Helsingborgs IF South Melbourne FC San Diego Sockers	? (?) ? (?) ? (?) ? (?) ? (?) ? (?)
Teams managed
1985 1986 1987 1988 1992-1994 1995-1997 1998-2000 2001 2001 2002-2004 2004-2005 2006 2006-2007	Örebro SK YOUTH IF Skarp Victoria Setubal Halmstads BK Sanfrecce Hiroshima Vissel Kobe AIK Fotboll F.C. Lyn Oslo FC Basel England Under-19 South Africa Vissel Kobe Helsingborgs IF
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Stuart Baxter (born August 16, 1953, Birmingham) is an English football manager. His son is Lee Baxter. Baxter has a Scottish father and an English mother. He started his career as a footballer for Preston North End FC in 1968. He joined the Swedish side Helsingborgs IF and settled in Sweden as a coach. His greatest success was in 1998 when he led the AIK side to become Swedish champions and he also led AIK to Champions League 1999. AIK played FC Barcelona, Arsenal FC and Fiorentina in group B. He also coached the England Under-19 national team.

In 2004 he was appointed manager of the South African national team, with a mandate to lead the team to the World Cup in Germany. His appointment was greeted with much scepticism in the South African press, who questioned the South African Football Association's choice of coach to lead the team out of a slump which had resulted in a first round exit from the African Cup of Nations in 2004. After a turbulent period in charge, Baxter resigned from his post in November 2005 after the team failed to qualify for the World Cup. He started his job as the manager at Helsingborgs IF in autumn 2006 and spent 15 months at the club, winning the Swedish Cup and taking Helsingborg to the UEFA Cup playoffs, before announcing his resignation on December 7 2007.