 Buckle married sports broadcaster Rebecca Lowe in June 2013 and later moved to the US where he was appointed as Technical Director at the Met Oval in New York in November of that year.He returned to the Football League in November 2014 to take the manager's job at Cheltenham Town in League Two but left in February 2015.On 8 July 2015 it was announced he had signed as Head Coach of the USL soccer club Sacramento Republic where he remained until 1 February 2018.