Phil Woods serves as Assistant Coach for Arkansas State University's Soccer program in Jonesboro, Arkansas. A native of Sheffield, England, Phil Woods joined the Arkansas State staff in 2024 as a volunteer coach and was promoted to assistant coach in July 2025. Prior to A-State, he spent a year and a half as a coach and scout with FC Dallas and served as an assistant coach with USL League 2 side Texas United in 2023.
Woods began his full-time coaching career at Missouri State, his alma mater, in 2019. During his four years with the Bears, the program won four consecutive Missouri Valley Conference regular-season titles and three MVC Tournament championships, earning MVC Coaching Staff of the Year honors. He launched his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Tulsa from 2017–19 while completing a Master of Business Administration. As a player at Missouri State from 2013–16, Woods was part of two MVC regular-season championship teams.
