Burnley Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Burnley, Lancashire. Founded on 18 May 1882, the club was one of the first to become professional (in 1883), putting pressure on the Football Association to permit payments to players.[1] As a result, the team were able to enter the FA Cup for the first time in 1885–86, and were one of the twelve founding members of the Football League in 1888–89.[1] Burnley have played in the top four tiers of English football from 1888 to the present day.[2] The team have been champions of England twice, in 1920–21 and 1959–60, have won the FA Cup once, in 1913–14, and have won the FA Charity Shield twice, in 1960 and 1973.[2][3] Burnley were the second, and are one of only five teams to have won all four professional divisions of English football, along with Wolverhampton Wanderers, Preston North End, Sheffield United and Portsmouth.[4][5]
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From 1882 to 1894, the Burnley team was selected by the board of directors or a committee whose secretary had the same powers and role as a manager has today.[6] In August 1894, the club decided to follow several other clubs and appoint a team manager. Burnley-born Harry Bradshaw was appointed; he had been involved with the club since its foundation in 1882 and he had been a committee member since 1887.[6] Scotsman Frank Hill, who was in charge of Burnley from October 1948 to August 1954, was the first non-English manager in the club's history.[7] From 1954 to 1983, under chairman Bob Lord, only managers with a previous playing career at the club were appointed—this trend ended when John Bond took the post in June 1983.[8][9] Two Burnley managers have died in the job—Spen Whittaker and John Haworth.[10]
The longest-serving person to manage Burnley is Harry Potts, who was in charge of the club for a total of 728 competitive matches: from February 1958 to February 1970 and from February 1977 to October 1979.[11][12] Haworth and Potts are Burnley's most successful managers in terms of competitive honours won, as Haworth claimed one FA Cup (1913–14) and one First Division title (1920–21), while Potts won one First Division title (1959–60) and one Charity Shield (1960).[11]
From the beginning of the club's official managerial records in 1894 to the present, Burnley have had 30 permanent managers and 6 caretakers.[11][12] The club's current manager is Scott Parker, who was appointed in July 2024.[13]
List of managers
editInformation correct after match played on 19 May 2024. Only competitive matches are counted, except the abandoned 1939–40 Football League season and matches in Wartime Leagues and Cups.
- Key
- Names of caretaker managers are supplied where known, and the names of caretaker managers are highlighted in italics and marked with an asterisk (*).
- Names of player-managers are supplied where known, and are marked with a double-dagger (‡).
Name | Nationality | From | To | Matches | Won | Drawn[a] | Lost | Win%[b] | Honours | Refs. |
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Harry Bradshaw | England | August 1894 | June 1899[c] | 164 | 65 | 37 | 62 | 39.63 | Second Division title: 1897–98 | [6][14] |
Ernest Mangnall | England | March 1900 | October 1903 | 125 | 44 | 27 | 54 | 35.20 | [15][16] | |
Spen Whittaker | England | October 1903 | April 1910[d] | 262 | 108 | 48 | 106 | 41.22 | [17][18] | |
John Haworth | England | July 1910 | December 1924 | 464 | 203 | 106 | 155 | 43.75 | Second Division promotion: 1912–13 FA Cup winners: 1913–14 First Division runners–up: 1919–20 First Division title: 1920–21 FA Charity Shield runners–up: 1921 |
[10][19] |
Albert Pickles | England | January 1925 | August 1932 | 336 | 120 | 71 | 145 | 35.71 | [20][21] | |
Tom Bromilow | England | October 1932 | July 1935 | 131 | 50 | 28 | 53 | 38.17 | [22] | |
Selection Committee[e] | July 1935 | September 1939 | 177 | 63 | 44 | 70 | 35.59 | [23] | ||
Cliff Britton | England | May 1945 | September 1948 | 100 | 49 | 30 | 21 | 49.00 | FA Cup runners–up: 1946–47 Second Division promotion: 1946–47 |
[23][24] |
Frank Hill | Scotland | October 1948 | August 1954 | 266 | 105 | 68 | 93 | 39.47 | [7][25] | |
Alan Brown | England | August 1954 | July 1957 | 138 | 57 | 32 | 49 | 41.30 | [26] | |
Billy Dougall | Scotland | July 1957 | January 1958 | 31 | 15 | 4 | 12 | 48.39 | [27][28] | |
Harry Potts | England | February 1958 | February 1970 | 605 | 272 | 141 | 192 | 44.96 | First Division title: 1959–60 FA Charity Shield winners (shared): 1960 First Division runners–up: 1961–62 FA Cup runners–up: 1961–62 |
[29][30] |
Jimmy Adamson | England | February 1970 | January 1976 | 272 | 104 | 74 | 94 | 38.24 | Second Division title: 1972–73 FA Charity Shield winners: 1973 Texaco Cup runners–up: 1973–74 |
[31][32] |
Joe Brown | England | January 1976 | February 1977 | 53 | 12 | 15 | 26 | 22.64 | [33] | |
Harry Potts | England | February 1977 | October 1979 | 123 | 42 | 32 | 49 | 34.15 | Anglo–Scottish Cup winners: 1978–79 | [29][30] |
Brian Miller | England | October 1979 | January 1983 | 166 | 57 | 50 | 59 | 34.34 | Third Division title: 1981–82 | [34][35] |
Frank Casper* | England | January 1983 | June 1983 | 34 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 50.00 | [36][37] | |
John Bond | England | June 1983 | August 1984 | 53 | 18 | 16 | 19 | 33.96 | [38] | |
John Benson | Scotland | August 1984 | May 1985 | 53 | 14 | 13 | 26 | 26.42 | [39][40] | |
Martin Buchan | Scotland | June 1985 | October 1985 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 38.46 | [41] | |
Tommy Cavanagh | England | October 1985 | June 1986 | 37 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 35.14 | [42] | |
Brian Miller | England | July 1986 | January 1989 | 126 | 43 | 30 | 53 | 34.13 | Associate Members' Cup runners–up: 1987–88 | [34][35] |
Frank Casper | England | January 1989 | October 1991 | 143 | 51 | 36 | 56 | 35.66 | [37] | |
Jimmy Mullen | England | October 1991 | February 1996 | 249 | 97 | 67 | 85 | 38.96 | Fourth Division title: 1991–92 Second Division play–off winners: 1993–94 |
[43][44] |
Clive Middlemass* | England | February 1996 | March 1996 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.00 | [45] | |
Adrian Heath ‡ | England | March 1996 | June 1997 | 71 | 26 | 18 | 27 | 36.62 | [46][47] | |
Chris Waddle ‡ | England | July 1997 | May 1998 | 57 | 17 | 16 | 24 | 29.82 | [48][49] | |
Stan Ternent | England | June 1998 | June 2004 | 312 | 122 | 82 | 108 | 39.10 | Second Division promotion: 1999–2000 | [50][51] |
Steve Cotterill | England | June 2004 | November 2007 | 170 | 55 | 49 | 66 | 32.35 | [52] | |
Steve Davis* | England | November 2007 | November 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | [53][54] | |
Owen Coyle | Ireland | November 2007 | January 2010 | 116 | 49 | 29 | 38 | 42.24 | Championship play–off winners: 2008–09 | [55][56] |
Brian Laws | England | January 2010 | December 2010 | 44 | 13 | 9 | 22 | 29.55 | [57] | |
Stuart Gray* | England | December 2010 | January 2011 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.00 | [58][59] | |
Eddie Howe | England | January 2011 | October 2012 | 87 | 34 | 19 | 34 | 39.08 | [60] | |
Terry Pashley* | England | October 2012 | October 2012 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 66.67 | [61][62] | |
Sean Dyche | England | October 2012 | April 2022 | 425 | 149 | 118 | 158 | 35.06 | Championship promotion: 2013–14 Championship title: 2015–16 |
[63][64] |
Mike Jackson* | England | April 2022 | May 2022 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 37.50 | [65][66] | |
Vincent Kompany | Belgium | June 2022 | May 2024 | 96 | 41 | 24 | 31 | 42.71 | Championship title: 2022–23 | [67][68] |
Scott Parker[f] | England | July 2024 | [70] |
Notes
edit- ^ Drawn matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
- ^ Win% is rounded to two decimal places.
- ^ Following Bradshaw's departure to Woolwich Arsenal in June 1899, team affairs remained in the hands of the board of directors until Ernest Mangnall was appointed in March 1900.[6]
- ^ Following the death of Whittaker in April 1910, team affairs were placed in the hands of the directors until the end of the season.[10]
- ^ After Tom Bromilow left the club in 1935 to manage Crystal Palace, the directors decided to not appoint a team manager due to economical reasons. Team affairs became a joint effort between chairman Tom Clegg, secretary Alf Boland and senior trainer Billy Dougall.[23]
- ^ Parker was named head coach instead of manager[13][69]
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One important detail is that Burnley have appointed a head coach rather than a manager. Kompany was unique, holding a lot of power and involving himself in all football and non-football matters. There is little difference between the titles in modern football but the slightly altered strategy will see Parker focusing his attention just on football matters, while maintaining a key influence in recruitment.
- ^ "Scott Parker". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- General
- Quelch, Tim (2017). From Orient to the Emirates: The Plucky Rise of Burnley FC. Pitch Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1785313127.
- Simpson, Ray (2007). The Clarets Chronicles: The Definitive History of Burnley Football Club 1882-2007. Burnley F.C. ISBN 978-0955746802.