Danny Wilson is a football manager, who has coached Barnsley and Sheffield Wednesday, among others.

His management career began in the summer of 1994, when he was 34 years old. Having just been given a free transfer by Sheffield Wednesday, he became player-manager of Barnsley whose previous manager Viv Anderson had been appointed assistant manager of Bryan Robson at Middlesbrough F.C..

In 1994-95, Barnsley finished sixth in Division One. In a normal season this would have meant occupying a playoff place, but due to the Premier League reducing from 22 to 20 clubs, only two teams would be promoted (with fifth placed club occupying the final playoff place) and Barnsley missed out. A similar disappointment followed in 1995-96, but in 1996-97 Wilson guided Barnsley to the Premiership as Division One runners-up. It was the first time that the 101-year-old Barnsley Football Club had won promotion to the top division of English football. Although their stay lasted only one season before relegation, Wilson's side reached the FA Cup quarter final and in the fifth round knocked out favourites Manchester United.

In the summer of 1998, Wilson returned to Sheffield Wednesday as manager and was hopeful of revitalising the club's fortunes. They had just finished 16th in the Premiership and five seasons earlier, when Wilson was still on the club's playing staff, they had reached both domestic cup finals and finished sixth in the first ever Premiership. In 1998-99, Wilson guided Sheffield Wednesday to a respectable 12th place in the Premiership and gave them home for a top half finish the following season. But he was sacked the following March with the club heading for relegation.

In June 2000, Wilson was appointed manager of Division Two Bristol City on a four-year contract. His contract expired at the end of the 2003-04 season and it was not renewed because he had failed to achieve promotion.

In December 2004, Wilson was named as the new manager of the controversial Coca Cola League One side Milton Keynes Dons (previously Wimbledon Football Club).