John Ramshaw

John Ramshaw

Personal information
Place of birth	Newcastle, England
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1983–1984	Notts County
1995–1995	Shepshed Charterhouse
1995	Hucknall Town	0	(0)
Managerial career
	Nottingham Forest (youth coach)
1983–1984	Shepshed Charterhouse (player-coach)
1986–1989	Oakham United
1989–1993	Sutton Town
1993–1994	Shepshed Dynamo (assistant)
1994–2001	Hucknall Town
2001–2002	Eastwood Town (assistant)
2002–2003	Leek Town
2003–2004	Kidsgrove Athletic
2004–2004	Arnold Town (assistant)
2006–2007	Hednesford Town (assistant)
2007	Lincoln United
2007–2010	Eastwood Town (assistant)
2011	Shepshed Dynamo
2011–2012	Eastwood Town
2013–2014	Mansfield Town (Academy Director)
2015	Torquay United (assistant)
2018–2019	Hinckley AFC
2019-	Kettering Town (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Ramshaw is a football coach and non-league manager. He was most recently the assistant manager at Loughborough Dynamo FC in the Northern Premier League Midlands division.

Career

Ramshaw began his career at Notts County from 1978 until 1983. He gained his English FA Full Licence (UEFA A Licence equivalent) in 1981.

In 1984 Ramshaw joined Shepshed Charterhouse as player-coach in the Southern League. In the bottom three when he joined them, Shepshed finished in fifth place, narrowly missing out on promotion to the Football Conference.

The following year Ramshaw returned to the professional game with Nottingham Forest, looking after their Associate Schoolboy programme for two years.

He returned to non-League management with Oakham United in the Central Midlands Football League in 1986, signing a young Dion Dublin (before facilitating his move to Norwich City) and leading the club to the Central Midlands Football League Cup semi-finals.

In 1989 Ramshaw became the manager of Sutton Town, then competing in the Northern Counties East League. The club was runners-up in the Northern Counties East league and League Cup semi-finalists in the three years Ramshaw was with the Snipes.

In 1994, he became the first team coach at the newly renamed Shepshed Dynamo in the Midland Football Alliance.

In March 1995, he became manager of Hucknall Town. In the seven seasons Ramshaw was at the helm at the club, they won the Northern Counties East League and were runners-up in the Northern Premier League First Division the following season. They won the Northern Counties East League Cup two years in succession and also the Northern Counties East Football League Presidents Cup. They won the Notts Senior Cup three times. They were also runners-up once losing to Arnold Town. They reached the semi-finals of the Northern Premier League Challenge Cup. He also made one appearance on the substitutes bench.

In addition, Ramshaw led Hucknall Town's Youth Academy (the first full-time non-league academy in the Midlands) to the Northern Alliance U19 League Championship and first round proper of FA Youth Cup.

November 2001 saw Ramshaw join Eastwood Town as the assistant manager.

Ramshaw then joined Northern Premier League club Leek Town The 2002/03 season saw Leek Town finish in ninth position.

The following season, Ramshaw joined Kidsgrove Athletic, leading them to success in the Staffordshire Senior Cup final by beating Conference side Stafford Rangers at the Brittania Stadium. They also reached the semi-finals of the Northern Premier League Chairman's Cup.

Ramshaw joined Phil Starbuck at Arnold Town during the 2003–04 season. This was followed by Arnold Town's most successful league campaign for ten seasons and their best-ever run in the FA Vase (fifth round).

Ramshaw joined Lincoln United in October 2007. However, after only ten games in charge, he left to rejoin Eastwood Town as Paul Cox's assistant. During the next two seasons, the pair guided Eastwood Town to the Unibond Northern Premier League championship and promotion to the Football Conference (North); the third round proper of the FA Cup; the Peter Swales Trophy and the Nottinghamshire Senior Cup.

In May 2011, Ramshaw was appointed first team manager of Shepshed Dynamo.

He returned to Eastwood Town as manager in November 2011, but left once again in October 2012, resigning due to ongoing financial difficulties at the club. Despite the club's problems, Ramshaw still managed to guide Eastwood Town to a Nottinghamshire Senior Cup Final victory, the fifth time he had won this trophy in his career.

Ramshaw renewed his association with Paul Cox in November 2012 when he joined the coaching staff at Mansfield Town – where he was most recently Academy Manager at the League 2 side. His stewardship of the club's Academy saw 8 players progress to the professional ranks. In addition, the Youth Team won the HKL Development League, were twice runners-up in the Football Conference Youth Alliance and were the only League 2 side to reach the fourth round of the FA Youth Cup (2014/15 season). Ramshaw left the Stags in December 2014 following Cox's resignation.

On 29 June 2015 Ramshaw was once again reunited with Paul Cox, becoming assistant manager at National League side Torquay United.

In July 2018 he joined Hinckley AFC as assistant manager to James Jepson. Upon the resignation of Jepson in December 2018, Ramshaw was appointed the club's Manager. After the 2018/19 season, John Ramshaw left the club and later agreed to take over Hinckley's under 18's side.

On 24 October 2019, Ramshaw joined the National League North club, Kettering Town, as assistant manager.