Completed Event: Soccer at Tulsa on August 24, 2025 , Win , 4, to, 1
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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Soccer
Gough, David
David Gough
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- david.gough@ou.edu
David Gough was named the University of Oklahoma assistant soccer coach in July 2021. As of April 2023, Gough was named the interim head coach as he enters his third season with the program.
Gough came to Norman with over 20 years of coaching experience at the club, collegiate, professional and international levels. In his three years in Norman, he has helped the Sooners to a 17-19-4 record.
Gough helped lead the English Women's National Team to a bronze medal at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup and has coached in 17 different countries on three continents.
"I have long admired OU athletics from afar." Gough said. "The high-performance culture, decades of consistency in their programs and the attraction to the special Boomer Sooner way makes it a special place. Soccer is a small world and the pull of getting to work for someone like Coach Carr was something that doesn't come along often. It was clear to me right from the start that the current coaches and staff are world class, and they have a real roadmap that will allow us to compete on a national level in due time."
Gough most recently founded ProPlayer, an athlete-development program that provides support and mentoring to youth competitors around the globe. Before that endeavor, Gough spent two seasons as the technical director at the Florida Elite Soccer Academy, where he led three Elite Clubs National League teams.
Gough spent the 2016-18 seasons as an assistant at the University of Arkansas, helping guide the Razorbacks to a 43-21-7 record and three NCAA Tournament appearances. Gough's recruiting laid the foundation for Arkansas' back-to-back SEC championships in 2020 and 2021.
Before his stop in Fayetteville, Gough led Arkansas Rush SC for three seasons from 2015-18.
His most notable years internationally came from 2014-16, when he helped guide the English Women's National Team as an assistant coach. In 2015, the Lioness' grabbed bronze at the FIFA Women's World Cup, the best finish in the their history. Under Gough's leadership, England claimed the trophy at the 2015 Cyprus Cup and finished as the runner-up at the 2015 Yongchuan International Tournament. Back-to-back bronze medals among the world's best at the 2016 and 2017 SheBelieves Cups closed his tenure with the English.
He attained extensive coaching experience in Europe before his time in England, leading the Cardiff City U15 and U18 clubs from 2011-14, and as head coach of the University of South Wales men's team from 2010-14. At South Wales, he piloted South Wales to a second-place finish in the BUCS Premier Division, the top university soccer league in the United Kingdom.
"I feel that OU's values reflect my deepest motivations," Gough said. "It was so important for me that they were not just words on paper, and nowhere that I've been in the US has lived and breathed its values like we do here at Oklahoma. "Touring campus and talking to other coaches at OU, I knew this was the right destination for me and my family. The aim is simple: to always be current and relevant with the intention of developing individually world-class student-athletes and playing my part in the most successful teams. I truly believe that I have found both a place where my family and I will be happy and where I can do my life's work."
A native of Abertridwr, Wales, Gough graduated from Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2005 with a degree in sport development and again from the University of South Wales with a master's in performance coaching in 2013.
Gough came to Norman with over 20 years of coaching experience at the club, collegiate, professional and international levels. In his three years in Norman, he has helped the Sooners to a 17-19-4 record.
Gough helped lead the English Women's National Team to a bronze medal at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup and has coached in 17 different countries on three continents.
"I have long admired OU athletics from afar." Gough said. "The high-performance culture, decades of consistency in their programs and the attraction to the special Boomer Sooner way makes it a special place. Soccer is a small world and the pull of getting to work for someone like Coach Carr was something that doesn't come along often. It was clear to me right from the start that the current coaches and staff are world class, and they have a real roadmap that will allow us to compete on a national level in due time."
Gough most recently founded ProPlayer, an athlete-development program that provides support and mentoring to youth competitors around the globe. Before that endeavor, Gough spent two seasons as the technical director at the Florida Elite Soccer Academy, where he led three Elite Clubs National League teams.
Gough spent the 2016-18 seasons as an assistant at the University of Arkansas, helping guide the Razorbacks to a 43-21-7 record and three NCAA Tournament appearances. Gough's recruiting laid the foundation for Arkansas' back-to-back SEC championships in 2020 and 2021.
Before his stop in Fayetteville, Gough led Arkansas Rush SC for three seasons from 2015-18.
His most notable years internationally came from 2014-16, when he helped guide the English Women's National Team as an assistant coach. In 2015, the Lioness' grabbed bronze at the FIFA Women's World Cup, the best finish in the their history. Under Gough's leadership, England claimed the trophy at the 2015 Cyprus Cup and finished as the runner-up at the 2015 Yongchuan International Tournament. Back-to-back bronze medals among the world's best at the 2016 and 2017 SheBelieves Cups closed his tenure with the English.
He attained extensive coaching experience in Europe before his time in England, leading the Cardiff City U15 and U18 clubs from 2011-14, and as head coach of the University of South Wales men's team from 2010-14. At South Wales, he piloted South Wales to a second-place finish in the BUCS Premier Division, the top university soccer league in the United Kingdom.
"I feel that OU's values reflect my deepest motivations," Gough said. "It was so important for me that they were not just words on paper, and nowhere that I've been in the US has lived and breathed its values like we do here at Oklahoma. "Touring campus and talking to other coaches at OU, I knew this was the right destination for me and my family. The aim is simple: to always be current and relevant with the intention of developing individually world-class student-athletes and playing my part in the most successful teams. I truly believe that I have found both a place where my family and I will be happy and where I can do my life's work."
A native of Abertridwr, Wales, Gough graduated from Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2005 with a degree in sport development and again from the University of South Wales with a master's in performance coaching in 2013.
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