List of Birmingham City F.C. managers
There have been 43 full-time managers:
All managers who have taken charge of at least one competitive match are listed below. 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 also included, where known, as well as those who have been in permanent charge.
History
In the early days, team management was undertaken by a club committee. When payment of players was legalised in 1885,
Joe Mallett presided over relegation before acting as assistant to Stan Cullis,[15] who laid the foundations for the team's future success before retiring from football in 1970.[16] Chosen only after abortive approaches were made to Don Revie, Brian Clough and Ronnie Allen,[17] Freddie Goodwin converted the attractive but inconsistent football of Cullis's teams to a skilful, aggressive game capable of winning promotion and maintaining top-flight status.[18] The British-record sale of goalscorer Bob Latchford to Everton was partially mitigated by the arrival of Howard Kendall and emergence of Trevor Francis,[19][20] but the team struggled. Goodwin survived a vote of confidence in April 1975,[21] but was sacked in September after his reaction to a training-ground incident provoked Kenny Burns into a transfer request. First-team coach Willie Bell, initially appointed as acting manager,[22][23] achieved little in two years,[24] and was replaced by club director Sir Alf Ramsey, whose brief managerial tenure ended with him leaving the club entirely.[d] Jim Smith brought experienced players to the club[27] but was sacked to make way for Ron Saunders, who had just walked out on league champions and local rivals Aston Villa.[e]
Financial difficulties and instability at board level led to six managerial changes in seven years. Saunders resigned after FA Cup defeat to non-league
Unable to avoid relegation at the end of his first part-season, McLeish led the team back to the Premier League at the first attempt in 2009,
After four months and 24 matches, during which the team won just twice and dropped to 20th place, three points outside the relegation zone with three matches remaining, Zola resigned.
Two months into the 2023–24 season, with the team in the play-off places, in a move with echoes of Rowett's replacement by Zola, the American owners sacked Eustace, citing "the importance of implementing a winning mentality and a culture of ambition".[64] Former England international player and Derby County and D.C. United manager Wayne Rooney's 9 defeats in 15 games took Birmingham down to 20th place and set a new club record for shortest tenure, of 83 days.[65][66] Tony Mowbray was appointed in January 2024,[67] but six weeks later medical issues forced his temporary withdrawal from the role; his assistant, Mark Venus, took charge for a month,[68] but results were so poor that the club rehired Gary Rowett as interim manager until the end of the season.[69]
Managers
All first-team matches in national or international competition are counted, except for those in The Combination of 1888–89, the abandoned 1939–40 Football League season and those in wartime leagues and cups. Statistics for the Football Alliance and for the FA Cup before Small Heath F.C.'s 1892 election to the Football League are sourced from Matthews (1995).[70] Dates and statistics thereafter are sourced from the English National Football Archive.[71] Discrepancies are noted and sourced within the table.
- Names of caretaker managers are supplied where known, and periods of caretaker-management are highlighted in italics and marked †.
- Permanent managers who previously played for the club are marked P.
- Secretary-managers are marked S.
- Managers whose tenure includes only wartime matches are marked W.
Win percentage is rounded to one decimal place.
Statistics are complete up to and including the match played on 16 March 2024.
Key
M: Matches played W: Matches won D: Matches drawn L: Matches lost
Name | Nationality | From | To | M | W | D | L | Win% | Honours and achievements[72] | Notes |
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Committee | 17 October 1881[g] | 1 June 1892 | 100 | 46 | 15 | 39 | 46.0 | |||
Alf Jones S | English | 1 July 1892 | 1 June 1908 | 566 | 260 | 108 | 198 | 45.9 |
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Alex Watson S | English | 1 July 1908 | 20 June 1911 | 118 | 34 | 25 | 59 | 28.8 | [b] | |
Bob McRoberts P | Scottish | 20 June 1911 | 30 May 1915 | 163 | 65 | 38 | 60 | 39.9 | [b] | |
Frank Richards S | English | 30 May 1915 | 31 May 1923 | 173 | 78 | 36 | 59 | 45.1 | Second Division championship 1920–21 | |
Billy Beer P | English | 31 May 1923 | 1 March 1927 | 163 | 62 | 36 | 65 | 38.0 | ||
Bill Harvey P | English | 1 March 1927 | 31 May 1928 | 58 | 20 | 16 | 22 | 34.5 | ||
Leslie Knighton S | English | 1 July 1928 | 8 May 1933[h] | 229 | 87 | 51 | 91 | 38.0 | 1930–31
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George Liddell P | English | 1 July 1933 | 30 September 1939 | 267 | 82 | 76 | 109 | 30.7 | ||
Bill Camkin SW | English | October 1939[15] | 16 August 1943[81] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | [i] | |
Ted Goodier W | English | 16 August 1943[81] | 28 October 1943[84] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | [i] | |
Bill Camkin SW | English | 28 October 1943[84] | 31 May 1945 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | [i] | |
Harry Storer | English | 1 June 1945 | 29 November 1948 | 118 | 60 | 30 | 28 | 50.8 |
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Walter Taylor † | 30 November 1948 | 31 January 1949 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 20.0 | [j] | ||
Bob Brocklebank | English | 31 January 1949 | 7 October 1954 | 255 | 101 | 67 | 87 | 39.6 | [k] | |
Committee † | 7 October 1954 | 16 November 1954 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 40.0 | [k] | ||
Arthur Turner P | English | 16 November 1954 | 4 February 1958 | 164 | 73 | 34 | 57 | 44.5 |
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[k][l][c] |
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4 February 1958 | 4 September 1958 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 33.3 | [c] | ||
Pat Beasley | English | 4 September 1958 | 23 May 1960 | 95 | 39 | 20 | 36 | 41.1 | 1958–60
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[c][l] |
Gil Merrick P | English | 1 June 1960 | 28 April 1964[14] | 202 | 64 | 46 | 92 | 31.7 |
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Joe Mallett | English | 1 July 1964 | 27 December 1965 | 66 | 15 | 16 | 35 | 22.7 | ||
Stan Cullis | English | 27 December 1965 | 18 March 1970 | 214 | 87 | 51 | 76 | 40.7 | ||
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18 March 1970 | 29 May 1970 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 16.7 | |||
Freddie Goodwin | English | 29 May 1970 | 18 September 1975 | 270 | 99 | 84 | 87 | 36.7 | Second Division promotion 1971–72 | |
Willie Bell | Scottish | 18 September 1975 | 5 September 1977 | 91 | 28 | 20 | 43 | 30.8 | ||
Sir Alf Ramsey
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English | 8 September 1977 | 6 March 1978 | 28 | 11 | 4 | 13 | 39.3 | ||
Jim Smith | English | 12 March 1978 | 15 February 1982 | 182 | 59 | 50 | 73 | 32.4 | Second Division promotion 1979–80 | |
Norman Bodell † | English | 15 February 1982 | 22 February 1982 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50.0 | [e] | |
Ron Saunders | English | 22 February 1982 | 16 January 1986 | 202 | 72 | 53 | 77 | 35.6 | Second Division promotion 1984–85 | [e] |
Keith Leonard † | English | 16 January 1986 | 22 January 1986 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | ||
John Bond | English | 23 January 1986 | 27 May 1987 | 65 | 17 | 20 | 28 | 26.2 | ||
Garry Pendrey P | English | 28 May 1987 | 26 April 1989 | 98 | 20 | 27 | 51 | 20.4 | ||
Dave Mackay | Scottish | 26 April 1989 | 23 January 1991 | 91 | 34 | 27 | 30 | 37.4 | ||
Bill Coldwell † | English | 23 January 1991 | 7 February 1991 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 66.7 | ||
Lou Macari | Scottish | 7 February 1991 | 18 June 1991 | 24 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 50.0 | 1990–91
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Terry Cooper | English | 9 August 1991 | 29 November 1993 | 135 | 48 | 36 | 51 | 35.6 | Third Division promotion 1991–92 | |
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29 November 1993 | 10 December 1993 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | |||
Barry Fry | English | 10 December 1993 | 7 May 1996 | 156 | 68 | 44 | 44 | 43.6 |
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Trevor Francis P | English | 10 May 1996 | 15 October 2001 | 290 | 139 | 70 | 81 | 47.9 | 2000–01
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15 October 2001 | 12 December 2001 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 41.7 | |||
Steve Bruce P | English | 12 December 2001 | 23 November 2007 | 269 | 100 | 69 | 100 | 37.2 |
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[m] |
Eric Black † | Scottish | 23 November 2007 | 27 November 2007 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | [m] | |
Alex McLeish | Scottish | 28 November 2007 | 12 June 2011 | 168 | 62 | 51 | 55 | 36.9 |
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Chris Hughton | Irish | 22 June 2011 | 7 June 2012 | 62 | 26 | 21 | 15 | 41.9 | ||
Lee Clark | English | 26 June 2012 | 20 October 2014 | 116 | 33 | 35 | 48 | 28.4 | ||
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20 October 2014 | 27 October 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | ||
Gary Rowett P | English | 27 October 2014 | 14 December 2016 | 106 | 42 | 32 | 32 | 39.6 | ||
Gianfranco Zola | Italian | 14 December 2016 | 17 April 2017 | 24 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 8.3 | ||
Harry Redknapp | English | 18 April 2017 | 16 September 2017[53] | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 30.8 | ||
Lee Carsley † | Irish | 16 September 2017[53] | 1 October 2017 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33.3 | [n] | |
Steve Cotterill | English | 2 October 2017 | 3 March 2018[55] | 27 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 25.9 | [n] | |
Garry Monk | English | 5 March 2018 | 18 June 2019 | 59 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 32.2 | ||
Pep Clotet | Spanish | 20 June 2019 | 8 July 2020 | 47 | 13 | 15 | 19 | 27.7 | [f] | |
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9 July 2020 | 30 July 2020 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.0 | |||
Aitor Karanka | Spanish | 31 July 2020 | 16 March 2021 | 38 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 21.1 | ||
Lee Bowyer P | English | 16 March 2021 | 2 July 2022 | 59 | 17 | 16 | 26 | 28.8 | ||
John Eustace | English | 3 July 2022 | 9 October 2023 | 63 | 21 | 16 | 26 | 33.3 | ||
Wayne Rooney | English | 11 October 2023 | 2 January 2024 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 13.3 | [95] | |
Steve Spooner † | English | 2 January 2024 | 8 January 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
Tony Mowbray | English | 8 January 2024 | 19 February 2024 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 50.0 | [o] | |
Mark Venus † | English | 19 February 2024 | 19 March 2024 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.0 | [o][96] | |
Gary Rowett P† | English | 19 March 2024 | present | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | [o] |
Notes
- ^ The count of full-time managers includes the early secretary-managers, but excludes those whose tenure covered only wartime competition.
- ^ a b c Matthews' books have McRoberts taking over as team manager from secretary-manager from Watson in 1910;[74][75] contemporary sources show that the change was made in 1911.[76][77]
- ^
- ^ Ramsey's biographer has him "locked in an increasingly bitter three-way dispute with his star player, Trevor Francis, and the board". After initially accepting the player's transfer request, the board changed their minds, fearful they would "incur the wrath of already disgruntled fans". Ramsey duly handed in his notice.[25] The Times reported that "Sir Alf said he told the board two weeks ago that he intended to quit and sever his links with the club. ... He said at a board meeting on February 20 he recommended both Francis and the defender, Joe Gallagher, should be transfer listed. The board agreed but three days later changed their minds about Francis. Sir Alf said he then decided to opt out because of the board's policy."[26]
- ^ Birmingham derby was scheduled for the Saturday, he took over formally as manager after the derby on Monday 22 February. "Mr Saunders said that the final formalities were in the hands of solicitors and accountants and, subject to completion of the details, he would be taking over on Monday, Norman Bodell, acting as manager since Jim Smith was suddenly dismissed on Monday, will be in charge of the side for the local derby."[92]
- ^ a b When Clotet was appointed caretaker head coach, the club stated it was "not actively seeking an alternative permanent Head Coach or Manager at this time". His position was made permanent on 4 December,[94] and he left by mutual agreement on 8 July 2020.[58]
- ^ Start date is that of the team's first appearance in national competition, the 4–1 win against Derby Town in the 1881–82 FA Cup.[73]
- ^ ENFA record Knighton's end date as 31 March 1933, and attribute the remaining ten matches (W3 D3 L4) to a committee. His resignation with the intention of taking over at Chelsea when David Calderhead retired at the end of the season was accepted on 30 March,[78] but on 4 May he was still signing players for Birmingham,[79] and he left on 8 May.[80]
- ^ a b c During the war, Camkin was honorary managing director of the club and dealt with team affairs while George Blackburn took training.[82] Matthews (1995)'s account that former Rochdale manager Goodier looked after team affairs on a caretaker basis from November 1944 until Storer's appointment at the end of the 1944–45 season[83] is contradicted by contemporary sources. Appointed part-time team manager of Birmingham as of 16 August 1943, with provision for a two-year appointment after the war,[81] Goodier was released on 28 October because of "unexpected domestic difficulties which necessitate[d] his return to Rochdale".[84]
- ^ The club's chief scout Walter Taylor was appointed assistant team manager shortly after Storer's resignation and acted as caretaker until Brocklebank's appointment.[85]
- ^ a b c Brocklebank resigned on 7 October 1954, and Turner took over officially on 16 November.[86] A committee of the directors, assisted by coach Ray Shaw, handled team affairs in the interim,[87] so the last three matches in October are reallocated from Brocklebank to the committee, and the first two matches in November are likewise reallocated from Turner.
- ^
- ^
- ^ a b Cotterill's appointment was announced on 29 September 2017 but did not take effect until 2 October. The intervening match, a 6–1 defeat at Hull City, was taken by Carsley.[54]
- ^ a b c Mowbray was appointed on 8 January 2024,[67] and was in charge of eight matches before the need for medical treatment forced his withdrawal from the role on 19 February; his assistant, Mark Venus, took charge of the team with immediate effect.[68] On 19 March, after a draw and five defeats left the team outside the relegation zone only on goal difference,[96][97] Mowbray took formal medical leave until the start of 2024–25 pre-season, and Gary Rowett returned to the club as interim manager.[69]
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External links
- Birmingham City F.C. official website
- The Birmingham City FC Archive (via archive.org)
- Birmingham City managerial history at Soccerbase