List of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. managers
This is a List of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. managers. Their first and longest serving manager was Arthur Dickinson who was appointed in 1891. There have been a total of 31 managers appointed to the role on a permanent basis and a further four have taken the position in a caretaker role. The vast majority have been English and until 2015 the club had not hired a manager from outside of the United Kingdom. Many of the managerial changes have taken place in recent years including eight different managers between 1995 and 2004.[1]
Arthur Dickinson is also the club's most successful manager so far, winning two First Division titles (1902–03 and 1903–04) and the same number of FA Cups (1896 and 1907).[2] Robert Brown was in charge during Wednesday's two other league championship successes in 1928–29 and 1929–30.[3] The last FA Cup was won during Billy Walker's reign at the end of the 1935 season.[4] Ron Atkinson masterminded the club's only League Cup triumph in 1991.[5] His successor, Trevor Francis, took the club to third place in Football's top tier in the 1991–92 season, before he became the only manager to lose both the FA Cup and League Cup finals in the same year in 1993.
Key
- All first-team matches in national competition are counted, except the abandoned 1939–40 Football League season and matches in wartime leagues and cups.
- P = matches played; W = matches won; D = matches drawn; L = matches lost; Win % = win percentage (rounded to two decimal places)
- Statistics are complete up to and including the match played on 27 January 2018.
Managers
- As of match played on 11 March 2020
# | Name | Nationality | From | To | P | W | L | D | Win % |
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1
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Arthur Dickinson | England | August 1891 | May 1920 | 919 | 393 | 338 | 188 | 42.76 |
2
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Robert Brown | England | June 1920 | December 1933 | 600 | 266 | 199 | 135 | 44.33 |
3
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Billy Walker | England | December 1933 | November 1937 | 187 | 66 | 68 | 53 | 35.29 |
4
|
Jimmy McMullan | Scotland | December 1937 | April 1942 | 77 | 33 | 21 | 23 | 42.86 |
5
|
Eric Taylor | England | April 1942 | July 1958 | 539 | 196 | 215 | 128 | 36.36 |
6
|
Harry Catterick | England | August 1958 | April 1961 | 138 | 77 | 30 | 31 | 55.80 |
7
|
Vic Buckingham | England | 1 June 1961 | 9 April 1964 | 134 | 63 | 47 | 24 | 47.01 |
8
|
Alan Brown | England | 1 August 1964 | February 1968 | 174 | 60 | 70 | 44 | 34.48 |
9
|
Jack Marshall | England | February 1968 | April 1969 | 48 | 12 | 20 | 16 | 25.00 |
10
|
Danny Williams | England | August 1969 | January 1971 | 67 | 16 | 35 | 16 | 23.88 |
11
|
Derek Dooley | England | January 1971 | 24 December 1973 | 130 | 41 | 54 | 35 | 31.54 |
12
|
Steve Burtenshaw | England | 29 January 1974 | 1 October 1975 | 68 | 13 | 38 | 17 | 19.12 |
13
|
Len Ashurst | England | 15 October 1975 | 5 October 1977 | 92 | 31 | 34 | 27 | 33.70 |
14
|
Jack Charlton | England | 8 October 1977 | 27 May 1983 | 269 | 105 | 77 | 87 | 39.03 |
15
|
Howard Wilkinson | England | 24 June 1983 | 10 October 1988 | 255 | 114 | 73 | 68 | 44.71 |
16
|
Peter Eustace | England | 28 October 1988 | 14 February 1989 | 18 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 11.11 |
17
|
Ron Atkinson | England | 14 February 1989 | 6 June 1991 | 118 | 49 | 34 | 35 | 41.53 |
18
|
Trevor Francis | England | 7 June 1991 | 20 May 1995 | 214 | 88 | 58 | 68 | 41.12 |
19
|
David Pleat | England | 14 June 1995 | 3 November 1997 | 102 | 32 | 40 | 30 | 31.37 |
20
|
Ron Atkinson | England | 14 November 1997 | 17 May 1998 | 27 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 33.33 |
21
|
Danny Wilson | Northern Ireland | 6 July 1998 | 21 March 2000 | 80 | 23 | 40 | 17 | 28.75 |
22
|
Paul Jewell | England | 21 June 2000 | 12 February 2001 | 38 | 12 | 21 | 5 | 31.58 |
23
|
Peter Shreeves | England | 12 February 2001 | 17 October 2001 | 31 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 35.48 |
24
|
Terry Yorath | Wales | 17 October 2001 | 31 October 2002 | 56 | 16 | 25 | 15 | 28.57 |
25
|
Chris Turner | England | 7 November 2002 | 19 September 2004 | 96 | 29 | 36 | 31 | 30.21 |
26
|
Paul Sturrock | Scotland | 23 September 2004 | 19 October 2006 | 104 | 35 | 40 | 29 | 33.65 |
27
|
Brian Laws | England | 6 November 2006 | 13 December 2009 | 154 | 52 | 60 | 42 | 33.77 |
28
|
Alan Irvine | Scotland | 8 January 2010 | 3 February 2011 | 59 | 24 | 22 | 13 | 40.68 |
29
|
Gary Megson | England | 4 February 2011 | 29 February 2012 | 62 | 28 | 22 | 12 | 45.16 |
30
|
Dave Jones | England | 1 March 2012 | 1 December 2013 | 81 | 29 | 30 | 22 | 35.80 |
31
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Stuart Gray | England | 1 December 2013 | 11 June 2015 | 68 | 26 | 19 | 23 | 38.24 |
32
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Carlos Carvalhal | Portugal | 30 June 2015 | 24 December 2017 | 131 | 56 | 38 | 37 | 42.75 |
33
|
Jos Luhukay | Netherlands | 5 January 2018 | 21 December 2018 | 48 | 16 | 13 | 19 | 33.33 |
34
|
Steve Bruce | England | 1 February 2019 | 17 July 2019 | 18 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 38.89 |
35
|
England | 6 September 2019 | present | 44 | 14 | 11 | 19 | 31.82 |
References
- ^ "The Managerial Merry-Go-Round". Sheffield Wednesday F.C. 17 June 2007. Archived from the original on 8 August 2008. Retrieved 13 April 2008.
- ^ Farnsworth, Keith (1982). Wednesday. Sheffield City Libraries. pp. 49, 64, 76. ISBN 0-900660-87-2.
- ^ Farnsworth, Keith (1982). Wednesday. Sheffield City Libraries. p. 111. ISBN 0-900660-87-2.
- ^ Farnsworth, Keith (1982). Wednesday. Sheffield City Libraries. p. 135. ISBN 0-900660-87-2.
- ^ "Profile: Ron Atkinson". BBC. 22 April 2004. Retrieved 19 April 2008.