Matt Jackson has moved into the role of Wolves technical director, within the club’s football leadership team.
Jackson’s association with Wolves began in 2021 as the club’s strategic player marketing manager and, after returning last year, he took on the role of head of professional football development, before becoming director of player recruitment and development last summer.
His time with Wolves was punctuated by a spell as president of Grasshopper Club Zurich, where he worked in close conjunction with the club’s ownership, senior staff and management team, assembling a playing squad and stabilising the club before returning to Wolverhampton.
After a 17-year playing career, which produced more than 500 appearances across the Premier League and EFL and an FA Cup success with Everton in 1995, Jackson instantly stepped into the working world as a football agent for IMG, while running his own company mentoring young and professional players.
TV punditry work followed with Sky, BBC, Eurosport and PLP, as did data analysis work during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, where deeper analysis of the sport and its athletes was starting to become imperative.
The former Wigan Athletic defender then returned to the club as head of football operations under manager Roberto Martinez and was responsible for creating the recruitment department and academy, helping to maintain the club's Premier League status and winning the FA Cup on the staff, before moving to Wolves.
While at Compton Park, Jackson built the loans department which developed careers for players, either at Wolves or elsewhere, and more recently developed the academy and women’s departments, while supporting the first-team operation.
He now steps into the role of technical director, supporting executive chairman Jeff Shi, alongside Matt Wild (director of football operations & administration), Phil Hayward (director of performance) and Max Fitzgerald (PR & communications director) in the club’s football leadership team.
