Born: 5 September 1988, Girona, Spain

Highly-rated young coach Narcís Pèlach joined Graham Potter’s backroom staff after impressing throughout a handful of spells in England and his native Spain.

A product of the academy at his hometown club, Girona, he featured in the Spanish lower divisions as a player before retiring aged 27 in 2016, and immediately turning his full attention to coaching.

Indeed, Pèlach had already spent time working with Figueres’ youth teams upon his move there two years earlier, and following a year-and-a-half in the club’s first-team hotseat, departed for Segunda División B outfit Peralada-Girona B in January 2018.

He was named as Girona’s first-team boss Juan Carlos Unzué’s assistant in June 2019, and little over a year later moved abroad for the first time, joining Carlos Corberán’s staff at Huddersfield Town in the EFL Championship.

Two stints as interim head coach were to come in West Yorkshire, in the wake of the departures of Corberán and Mark Fotheringham, and in May 2023 Pèlach joined Norwich City as a first-team coach.

Having helped the Canaries reach the 2023/24 Championship Play-Offs, he left Carrow Road in the early part of the subsequent campaign to take over as head coach at Stoke City, whom he parted ways with in late December 2024.