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Yeovil Town Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Yeovil, Somerset. The club was founded under the name Yeovil Casuals in 1895.

This chronological list comprises all those who have held the position of manager of the first team of Yeovil Town the club was first admitted to the Southern League in 1923 and subsequently turned professional. Each manager's entry includes his dates of tenure and the club's overall competitive record (in terms of matches won, drawn and lost), honours won and significant achievements while under his care. Caretaker managers are included, where known, as well as those who have been in permanent charge.

Managerial history

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Yeovil Town's team was selected by committee until 1923, when former Queens Park Rangers player Jack Gregory was appointed player-manager. The appointment coincided with Yeovil's election in to the Southern League for the first time. Gregory remained in charge for five seasons, winning the Southern League West Section in 1924, until in 1928 he was replaced by former Newcastle United inside forward Tommy Lowes. Lowes lasted just one season before being by Scot David Pratt who experienced more success winning the Southern League West Section, Western League and the Somerset Professional Cup in his four year stint as manager. Pratt's successor was former England international Louis Page whose two season spell with the club again brought Southern League West Section and Western League titles. Prolific Scottish goalscorer Dave Halliday replaced Page after he left to join Newport County, Billy Kingdon followed Halliday in 1938 and remained in charge for 8 years spanning the Second World War and holds the record as Yeovil's longest serving manager.

After Kingdon, was Alec Stock who joined the club in 1946 and famously led Yeovil to the FA Cup fifth round in 1949, the best performance in the club's history, including victory over First Division side Sunderland. In 1949 Stock left Yeovil to join Leyton Orient his replacement Scottish international George Paterson led the club to two Somerset Premier Cup triumphs before leaving for Stirling Albion in 1951. The club then appointed Harry Lowe as their first ever manager, with all previous appointments having been player-managers. Former Portsmouth striker Ike Clarke replaced Lowe in 1953, and in a widely successful four year period as manager led the club to the Southern League and Southern League Cup double in 1955. Following Clarke's departure in 1957, former Exeter City manager Norman Dodgin was appointed although Dodgin departed before the 1957/58 season to take over at Barrow, he was replaced by Jimmy Baldwin. Basil Hayward was appointed in 1960 and brought about an immediate change in fortunes of the team leading the club to the Southern League Cup in his first season in charge. Hayward left the club in February 1964, to be replaced by Glyn Davies who led the club to their second Southern League triumph. Davies left at the end of the following season to join Swansea City with Yeovil demanding a fee for his services and receiving £1,250 from the Welsh club the first time ever that a fee had been paid by one club to another for the services of a manager. Joe McDonald replaced Davies staying at the club for two seasons before in turn being replaced by Ron Saunders. Saunders left the club to join Second Division side Oxford United in 1969, his replacement was Mike Hughes who in his four seasons at the club won both the Southern League and the Southern League Championship Cup. The 1970s saw Yeovil managed by Cecil Irwin, Stan Harland and Barry Lloyd as they continued to challenge in the Southern League. The formation of the Alliance Premier League saw a decline in Yeovil's fortunes, with Lloyd's successors Malcolm Allison and then Jimmy Giles failing to live up to previous successes and after three more managers in as many years the club was relegated for the first time in its history in 1985 under Gerry Gow. Gow's successor Brian Hall saw Yeovil return to the Conference in 1988 and won the Conference League Cup in 1990. Hall was controversially sacked in October 1990 to be replaced by Clive Whitehead but was sacked before the end of the season to be replaced by Steve Rutter. Hall returned to the club in 1994 but only lasted a year to be replaced by former England international Graham Roberts who could not avoid relegation back to the Isthmian League. In Roberts three year reign he managed to lead the club back tot he Conference in 1997 before being sacked for misconduct in January 1998 to be replaced by Colin Lippiatt, but resigned shortly after due to his refusal to go full time. Midfielder and fitness coach Steve Thompson took over as manager before being replaced by David Webb in March 2000 and becoming assistant manager. Webb lasted just seven months before leaving to join Southend United his replacement Colin Addison despite leading Yeovil to second place in the Conference their highest finish ever was sacked by Chairman John Fry in May 2001.

Addison was replaced by former Latvia manager Gary Johnson who in his first season led Yeovil to FA Trophy triumph and the following season won promotion from the Conference, to lead Yeovil into League football for the first time in their 108 year history. In their second season in the Football League Johnson managed Yeovil to the Football League Two title, before leaving the club the following September to join Bristol City. Johnson was replaced by his assistant Steve Thompson who managed to avoid relegation from Football League One. Thompson was in turn replaced by Russell Slade at the end of the season who in his first season in charge led the club to Wembley and the Football League One play-off Final. Slade was sacked in February 2009 and replaced by club captain Terry Skiverton, initially as player-manager, who on limited resources managed in his three years as manager to maintain Yeovil's place in League One. Before in January 2012, Gary Johnson returned to the club with Skiverton becoming his assistant, and lead Yeovil via the 2013 Football League One play-off Final into the second tier of English football for the first time in their history.

Managers

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  • Manager dates and statistics are sourced from Hendford to Huish Park: 110 Years of Yeovil Town Football Club for Gregory to Johnson's first appointment,[1], Ciderspace[2] and Soccerbase thereafter from the appointment of Johnson in 2001.[3][4] Names of caretaker or interim managers are supplied where known, and periods of caretaker management are highlighted in italics and marked † or ‡, depending on the scenario. Win percentage is rounded to two decimal places.
  • Only first-team competitive matches are counted; games in the various wartime competitions and the abandoned 1939–40 season are excluded. Minor county competitions such as the Somerset Premier Cup are included before the club entered the Football League in 2003. Wins, losses and draws are results at the final whistle; the results of penalty shoot-outs are not counted.
  • Statistics are complete up to and including the match played on 29 March 2024.

Key

  • M = matches played; W = matches won; D = matches drawn; L = matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Win % = percentage of total matches won
  •    † Managers with this background and symbol in the "Name" column are italicised to denote caretaker appointments.
  •    ‡ Managers with this background and symbol in the "Name" column are italicised to denote caretaker appointments promoted to full-time manager.
List of Yeovil Town F.C. managers
Name Nationality From To M W D L GF GA Win % Honours Notes
Jack Gregory   England 5 May 1923 June 1928 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! Southern League West Section champions: 1923–24
Tommy Lowes   England July 1928 June 1929 0 0 0 0 0 0 !
David Pratt   Scotland July 1929 June 1933 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! Southern League West Division champions: 1931–32
Western League Division One champions: 1929–30
Somerset Premier Cup winners: 1929–30
Louis Page   England July 1933 June 1935 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! Southern League West Division champions: 1934–35
Western League Division One champions: 1934–35
Dave Halliday   Scotland 5 July 1935 8 January 1938 0 0 0 0 0 0 !
Billy Kingdon   England 13 January 1938 26 January 1946 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! Somerset Premier Cup winners: 1937–38, 1938–39
Alec Stock   England 1 February 1946 3 September 1949 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! Southern League Cup winners: 1948–49
Somerset Premier Cup winners: 1946–47 (shared), 1947–48
George Paterson   Scotland 13 October 1949 15 October 1951 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! Somerset Premier Cup winners: 1949–50, 1950–51
Harry Lowe   Scotland 15 December 1951 2 May 1953 0 0 0 0 0 0 !
Ike Clarke   England 10 May 1953 2 May 1957 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! Southern League champions: 1954–55
Southern League Cup winners: 1954–55
Somerset Premier Cup winners: 1953–54, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1956–57 (shared)
Norman Dodgin   England May 1957 24 July 1957 0 0 0 0 0 0 !
Jimmy Baldwin   England July 1957 March 1960 0 0 0 0 0 0 !
Basil Hayward   England 13 April 1960 February 1964 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! Southern League Cup winners: 1960–61
Somerset Premier Cup winners: 1961–62, 1962–63
Glyn Davies   Wales February 1964 June 1965 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! Southern League Premier Division champions: 1963–64
Somerset Premier Cup winners: 1964–65
Joe McDonald   Scotland 11 August 1965 14 March 1967 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! Southern League Cup winners: 1965–66
Ron Saunders   England 17 April 1967 19 February 1969 0 0 0 0 0 0 !
Mike Hughes   Wales 14 April 1969 24 May 1972 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! Southern League Premier Division champions: 1970–71
Southern League Championship Cup winners: 1971–72
Somerset Premier Cup winners: 1968–69
Cecil Irwin   England 17 June 1972 7 May 1975 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! Somerset Premier Cup winners: 1972–73
Stan Harland   England 28 May 1975 6 August 1978 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! Southern League Championship Cup winners: 1976–77
Somerset Premier Cup winners: 1978–79
Barry Lloyd   England 21 August 1978 20 January 1981 0 0 0 0 0 0 ! Somerset Premier Cup winners: 1978–79
Malcolm Allison   England 1 February 1981 14 February 1981 4 0 1 3 10 14 000.00
Jimmy Giles   England 16 February 1981 30 March 1983 114 37 22 55 159 209 032.46
Mike Hughes   Wales 30 March 1983 2 May 1983 9 0 3 6 8 23 000.00
Trevor Finnigan   England July 1983 8 February 1984 34 14 7 13 48 50 041.18
Steve Coles   England 9 February 1984 21 May 1984 25 6 5 14 38 56 024.00
Ian MacFarlane   Scotland 21 May 1984 29 August 1984 4 0 0 4 5 11 000.00
Gerry Gow   Scotland 9 September 1984 10 January 1987 133 64 28 41 231 183 048.12
Brian Hall   England 11 January 1987 12 October 1990 208 104 46 58 351 245 050.00 Isthmian League Premier Division champions: 1987–88
Isthmian League Cup winners: 1987–88
Isthmian Championship Shield winners: 1988–89
Conference League Cup winners: 1989–90
Clive Whitehead   England 15 October 1990 1 April 1991 30 8 5 17 46 57 026.67
Steve Rutter   England 3 April 1991 20 November 1993 145 59 40 46 201 163 040.69
Brian Hall   England 24 January 1994 7 January 1995 62 15 14 33 65 103 024.19
Graham Roberts   England 4 February 1995 25 January 1998 162 86 37 39 304 188 053.09 Isthmian League Premier Division champions: 1996–97
Somerset Premier Cup winners: 1996–97
Colin Lippiatt   England 25 January 1998 28 September 1999 89 42 20 27 147 117 047.19 Somerset Premier Cup winners: 1997–98
Steve Thompson   England 29 September 1999 10 March 2000 29 13 5 11 41 45 044.83
David Webb   England 10 March 2000 30 September 2000 24 13 6 5 41 32 054.17
Steve Thompson   England 1 October 2000 8 October 2000 2 1 1 0 6 2 050.00
Colin Addison   England 8 October 2000 5 May 2001 42 22 7 13 66 52 052.38
Gary Johnson   England 19 June 2001 23 September 2005 226 120 45 61 418 282 053.10 League Two champions: 2004–05
Football Conference champions: 2002–03
FA Trophy winners: 2001–02
Steve Thompson   England 23 September 2005 7 June 2006 41 14 9 18 51 54 034.15
Russell Slade   England 7 June 2006 16 February 2009 137 49 32 56 139 174 035.77
Steve Thompson   England 16 February 2009 18 February 2009 1 0 0 1 0 3 000.00
Terry Skiverton   England 18 February 2009 9 January 2012 144 38 41 65 161 211 026.39
Gary Johnson   England 9 January 2012 4 February 2015 162 56 34 72 199 239 034.57 League One play-offs winners: 2012–13
Terry Skiverton   England 4 February 2015 9 April 2015 13 2 2 9 10 27 015.38
Paul Sturrock   Scotland 9 April 2015 1 December 2015 30 6 8 16 27 46 020.00
Darren Way   England 1 December 2015 24 March 2019 189 56 56 77 219 262 029.63
Neale Marmon   England 24 March 2019 8 May 2019 7 0 4 3 5 10 000.00
Darren Sarll   England 19 June 2019 28 March 2022 134 55 30 49 192 171 041.04
Charlie Lee   England 28 March 2022 13 May 2022 10 3 5 2 16 10 030.00 Somerset Premier Cup winners: 2021–22
Josh Staunton   England 13 May 2022 15 May 2022 1 1 0 0 1 0 100.00
Chris Hargreaves   England 18 May 2022 27 October 2022 17 2 8 7 12 19 011.76
Mark Cooper   England 28 October 2022 Present 83 36 22 25 117 101 043.37

Footnotes

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References

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  1. ^ Miller, Kerry (2005). Hendford to Huish Park: 110 Years of Yeovil Town Football Club. Yeovil Town F.C.
  2. ^ "Statistics". Ciderspace: The Independent Yeovil Town FC website. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  3. ^ "Yeovil Manager History". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  4. ^ "Yeovil results". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 4 December 2015.

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