Richie Grant (soccer)

Richie Grant
Personal information
Date of birth	28 February 1970 (age 54)
Place of birth	Dublin, Ireland
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1990–1992	Green Mountain College
Senior career*
Years	Team
1993	Minnesota Thunder
Managerial career
1993–1995	Bloomsburg U. (assistant)
1995–1998	Lambuth University
1999–2013	University of Memphis
2014–2022	Cal State Bakersfield
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Richie Grant (born February 28, 1970) is a soccer coach. He is formerly the head men's soccer coach at the California State University, Bakersfield. He has held that position since 2014, and has posted a 102–83–16 record in ten seasons. He is a two-time Conference USA Coach of the Year winner, and led the 2004 squad to the NCAA tournament, their first appearance since 1993. The 2004 team also won the Conference USA title. His teams have been ranked in the top 25 four out of the past five years, including a school record national ranking of 10.

He previously served as the head men's soccer coach at Lambuth University in Jackson, Tennessee. He led that program to a 53–29–2 record over 4 seasons including back-to-back Mid-South conference titles. He is a 1993 graduate of Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, where he was a three-time NAIA all-American defender. He later played for the Minnesota Thunder.