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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

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

• 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,, Ciderspace and Soccerbase thereafter from the appointment of Johnson in 2001. 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

References

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