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Andy Hessenthaler
Hessenthaler with Dover Athletic in July 2009
Personal information
Full name Andrew Hessenthaler
Date of birth (1965-08-17) 17 August 1965 (age 58)
Place of birth Dartford, England
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Gillingham
(head of recruitment)
Youth career
Dartford
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
000?–1983 Corinthian
1983–1984 Charlton Athletic 0 (0)
1984–1986 Corinthian
1986–1990 Dartford
1990–1991 Redbridge Forest
1991–1996 Watford 195 (11)
1996–2006 Gillingham 303 (20)
2005 → Hull City (loan) 10 (0)
2006–2007 Barnet 40 (2)
2007–2010 Dover Athletic 36 (4)
Total 584 (37)
International career
1990
England National Game XI
 1 (0)
Managerial career
2000–2004 Gillingham (player/manager)
2007–2010 Dover Athletic (player/manager)
2010–2012 Gillingham
2014–2015 Gillingham (co-caretaker)[1]
2016 Leyton Orient
2017–2018 Eastleigh
2018–2023 Dover Athletic
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Andrew Hessenthaler (born 17 August 1965) is an English

Isthmian League Premier Division. After three years at Dover, he became manager at Gillingham for the second time, but his contract was terminated at the end of the 2011–12 season. He returned to the club as assistant manager in 2014, before taking on a similar role at Leyton Orient the following year. In 2016, he was appointed manager of the club, but was sacked later the same year. In November he was appointed manager of Eastleigh
, but the following year left to return to Dover, where he stayed until January 2023.

Career

Non-League career

As a teenager, Hessenthaler played for the youth team of his local club

Peter Taylor while playing in a Kent Senior Cup match. Hessenthaler signed for his hometown club on a wage of £40 per week, the first regular income he had ever received for playing.[3]

Hessenthaler spent four years at the club, during which time Dartford reached the semi-finals of the

England National Game XI, the national team for semi-professional players.[7] Later that year, he moved on to Redbridge Forest, where he spent one season and helped the team win the Isthmian League championship.[8]

Watford

On the recommendation of Peter Taylor, who was by now assistant manager of

Masters football event, where he was named "Player of the Tournament".[15]

Gillingham

At the end of the

penalty shoot-out.[18] Shortly afterwards, Gillingham manager Tony Pulis, who had signed Hessenthaler, was dismissed from his post.[19] He was replaced by Peter Taylor, who appointed Hessenthaler as player-coach.[20] In his first season in this new role, he was once again a regular in the Gillingham team,[21] making a total of 47 appearances as the club recorded its highest position to date in the English football league system and best ever run in the FA Cup.[22] Although the cup run came to an end with a 5–0 defeat at the hands of Chelsea of the Premier League, Hessenthaler's high-energy performance prompted Chelsea chairman Ken Bates to joke that he had been keen to sign the player until he discovered to his surprise that he was 35 years old (although Hessenthaler was in fact only 34 at the time).[23] Gillingham once again qualified for the play-off final, with Hessenthaler making his second appearance at Wembley as the Gills beat Wigan Athletic 3–2 after extra time to secure promotion to the Football League First Division for the first time in the club's history.[24]

Immediately after guiding Gillingham to promotion, Peter Taylor left to manage

2003–04 season, however, the Gills' fortunes declined, and the team only avoided relegation on goal difference after holding Stoke City to a draw in the last match of the season.[28] As the team continued to struggle at the start of the following season, club owner Paul Scally reiterated his confidence in Hessenthaler but brought in former Swindon Town and Wycombe Wanderers manager John Gorman to assist him.[29] The following month, with no significant improvement in the team's fortunes, Hessenthaler tendered his resignation.[30]

He remained at the club as a player but was rarely selected for the team,

2005–06 season and made a further 17 appearances, the final one in a 3–0 home win against Port Vale on 10 December 2005.[35] At forty years and four months of age, he was the oldest player ever to represent the club.[17] He rounded out his Gillingham career by returning to Priestfield Stadium for a testimonial match in July 2006.[36] He is widely regarded as a club legend by Gillingham fans, who in 2005 voted him the team's best ever player in a local radio poll,[37] and he was also named Gillingham's greatest ever player by the Professional Footballers' Association in November 2007.[38]

Barnet

On 19 January 2006, Hessenthaler signed for

2006–07 season, Barnet announced that his contract would not be renewed.[42]

Managerial career

Shortly after his departure from Barnet, Hessenthaler was appointed manager of

Conference National, but lost at the semi-final stage to Woking.[47] Hessenthaler, at the age of 44, announced his retirement as a player after the match.[48]

On 20 May 2010, Hessenthaler resigned as Dover manager,

Mark Patterson, following the sacking of Taylor on 31 December 2014.[54] At the end of the 2014–15 season, Hessenthaler left the club to become assistant manager at Leyton Orient.[55] In April 2016, he was promoted to the position of manager when player-manager Kevin Nolan was stripped of his managerial responsibilities,[56] however Hessenthaler was sacked in September of the same year.[57] In April 2017 Hessenthaler was appointed as assistant manager of National League club Eastleigh,[58] and in November of the same year stepped up to the role of manager.[59]

In October 2018 he returned to Dover as manager following the sacking of Chris Kinnear.[60] During the 2020–21 season, Dover chairman Jim Parmenter confirmed in February that all staff had been furloughed and they would be playing no additional fixtures,[61] leading to the club starting the 2021–22 season on minus-12 points.[62] After a switch back to operating as a part-time club and retaining just four players,[63] a disastrous season followed and after picking up just eight points in 33 matches, a 2–0 defeat to Yeovil Town on 19 March left the club thirty five points from safety with just eleven matches left to be played, seeing the club relegated to the National League South.[64] His contract with the club was cancelled by mutual consent on 5 January 2023,[65] and on the same day he returned to Gillingham as Head of Recruitment.[66]

Personal life

Hessenthaler's mother died in 1991, shortly before his first professional match. His father was an aspiring footballer and was at one time on the books of Arsenal, but never played professionally.[67] He is married to Nikki and has a daughter, Jasmine, and a son, Jake, who is a professional footballer with Crawley Town and made his debut for Gillingham in December 2013.[68][69] His brother-in-law, Darren Hare, has served as the youth team manager at Gillingham, while his nephew, Josh Hare, came through the youth set-up at Gillingham and went on to play professionally.[70][71]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 1 January 2023[72][73][74][75]
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team From To Record
P W D L Win %
Gillingham 29 June 2000 23 November 2004 228 77 54 97 033.8
Dover Athletic 29 May 2007 20 May 2010 157 101 25 31 064.3
Gillingham 21 May 2010 10 May 2012 101 39 29 33 038.6
Gillingham (joint caretaker*) 31 December 2014 7 February 2015 8 3 2 3 037.5
Leyton Orient 12 April 2016 26 September 2016 16 7 2 7 043.8
Eastleigh 18 December 2017 8 October 2018 37 15 8 14 040.5
Dover Athletic 8 October 2018 5 January 2023 167 46 37 84 027.5
Total 714 288 157 269 040.34

Hessenthaler's third spell in management at Gillingham was as part of a team of four joint caretaker managers, along with Steve Lovell, Darren Hare, and Mark Patterson.

Honours

As a player

Gillingham

  • Football League Second Division play-offs:
    2000[24]

Hull City

Individual

  • Gillingham Player of the Season: 1996–97,[76] 1999–2000[77]
  • Named Gillingham's "Greatest Ever Player" in a 2005 fan poll and by the Professional Footballer's Association in 2007[37][38]

As a manager

Dover Athletic

Individual

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