Eric Quill

HEAD COACH

FC Dallas named Eric Quill as the club’s ninth full-time head coach in franchise history on Nov. 20, 2024.

COACHING CAREER

Quill served as the head coach of North Texas SC from 2019-21. He guided the team to the inaugural USL League One Championship in 2019 and earned USL League One Coach of the Year honors.

Since departing Frisco in 2021, Quill continued to build his coaching legacy. He joins FC Dallas after serving as the head coach of USL Championship side New Mexico United, where he made an immediate impact after taking the reins in June 2023. In the 2024 season, Quill led New Mexico to the USL Championship Western Conference Semifinals and the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Quarterfinals, defeating MLS club Real Salt Lake along the way. United finished 18-5-11 under Quill in 2024.

A champion of player development and a seasoned coach across all levels of the sport, Quill’s resume includes a stint as an assistant coach with the Columbus Crew from 2021-23. Quill also led Texans SC to a U.S. Development Academy National Championship in 2017, earning USSDA Coach of the Year honors the same year, and served as an assistant for the U.S. U-15 and U-19 national teams.

PLAYING CAREER

Quill’s played collegiately at Clemson University in 1996 before joining MLS in 1997 through the Project-40 (Generation Adidas) program with the Tampa Bay Mutiny, where he tallied eight goals and 19 assists across 79 appearances. He later played for the Kansas City Wizards (now Sporting Kansas City), scoring seven goals and assisting seven over 49 matches, and joined the Dallas Burn in 2004, contributing a goal and three assists in 23 games. Quill retired in 2005 after a season with the New York MetroStars (now New York Red Bulls). A U.S. Youth International, he represented the U-16 and U-20 national teams and was part of the U.S. Men’s National Team player pool from 2001 to 2003.