List of Port Vale F.C. managers

The following is a list of Port Vale managers from 1876, when the club were founded, to the present day. It details the record of the managers and their honours.

Although the club were founded in 1876, they did not appoint a full-time manager until 1896, when Sam Gleaves was appointed as manager, a position he held for nine years. Before him, Enoch Hood was the club captain from between 1879 and 1896 (appointed age 18); in this role he acted much the same as a manager. Vale's first major success was with Tom Morgan, who managed the club to the Third Division North title in the 1929–30 season.

The first confirmed non-English manager during peacetime was Jock Cameron, who held the job for a year following World War I. Freddie Steele was a highly successful manager, who took the club to their second Third Division North title in 1953–54. In 1957 Scotsman Norman Low took the managerial reins, winning the Fourth Division title in 1958–59. The next manager of note was Sir Stanley Matthews, who was full-time manager for less than a year; his resignation followed a scandal involving players' pay. Widely considered to be the club's greatest ever manager, John Rudge led the "Valiants" to cup glory in 1993; his best success was the league however, securing three promotions in his sixteen-year reign. Bruno Ribeiro, from Portugal, became the first manager born outside of Britain to manage the club when he was appointed as manager in June 2016.

In all the club has had 32 full-time managers (excluding caretaker managers), with four managers having two separate reigns.

Managers

  • As of 6 May 2018. Only professional, competitive matches are counted.

Key

  •    caretaker Managers with this background and symbol in the "Name" column are italicised to denote caretaker appointments.
List of Port Vale F.C. managers
NameNationalityFromToMatchesWonDrawnLostWin %HonoursNotes
Sam Gleaves  England August 1896 May 1905 262 96 60 106 36.6 [1]
Tommy Clare  England July 1905 July 1906 40 13 4 23 32.5 [1]
Harry Myatt  England October 1913 May 1914 – – – – – [2]
Tom Holford (first spell)  England May 1914 1918 – – – – – [3]
Jock Cameron  Scotland August 1918 January 1919 – – – – –
Joe Schofield  England March 1920 29 September 1929 407 147 86 174 36.1 [1]
Tom Morgan (first spell)  England September 1929 May 1932 132 66 20 46 50.0 Third Division North champions [1]
Tom Holford (second spell)  England June 1932 September 1935 137 47 31 59 34.3 [1]
Warneford Cresswell  England May 1936 May 1937 47 20 10 17 42.6 [1]
Tom Morgan (second spell)  England December 1937 April 1939 17 5 6 6 29.4 [1]
Jack Diffin  Ireland October 1944 December 1944 0 0 0 0 –
David Pratt  Scotland December 1944 August 1945 0 0 0 0 –
Billy Frith  England August 1945 October 1946 13 5 5 3 38.5 [4]
Gordon Hodgson  England October 1946 14 June 1951 222 84 54 84 37.8 [5]
Ivor Powell  Wales July 1951 November 1951 19 2 8 9 10.5 [6]
Freddie Steele (first spell)  England 24 December 1951 15 January 1957 246 100 73 73 40.7 Third Division North champions [7]
Norman Low  Scotland February 1957 October 1962 285 116 65 104 40.7 Fourth Division champions [8]
Freddie Steele (second spell)  England October 1962 February 1965 123 43 32 48 40.0 [7]
Jackie Mudie  Scotland 14 March 1965 31 May 1967 114 37 30 47 32.5 [1]
Stanley Matthews  England May 1967 April 1968 49 13 15 21 26.5 [1]
Gordon Lee  England May 1968 January 1974 258 94 80 84 36.4 Fourth Division promotion [9]
Roy Sproson  England 14 January 1974 31 October 1977 173 54 59 60 29.9 [1]
Colin Harper caretaker  England 31 October 1977 17 November 1977 3 0 2 1 0.0
Bobby Smith  England 17 November 1977 17 May 1978 33 6 14 13 18.2 [1]
Dennis Butler  England 17 May 1978 30 August 1979 49 14 14 21 28.6 [10]
Alan Bloor  England 30 August 1979 1 December 1979 18 5 4 9 27.8 [11]
Bill Bentley caretaker  England 1 December 1979 December 1979 1 0 0 1 0.0 [1]
John McGrath  England December 1979 5 December 1983 203 73 57 73 36.0 Fourth Division promotion
John Rudge  England 5 December 1983 18 January 1999 749 278 213 258 37.1 Third Division runners-up
Third Division play-offs
Fourth Division promotion
League Trophy winners		 [12]
Bill Dearden
Mark Grew caretaker		  England
 England		 18 January 1999 22 January 1999 0 0 0 0 – [13]
Brian Horton  England 22 January 1999 12 February 2004 262 84 67 111 32.1 League Trophy winners [14]
Martin Foyle  England 13 February 2004 26 September 2007 184 68 34 82 37.0 [15]
Dean Glover caretaker  England 26 September 2007 5 November 2007 8 2 1 5 25.0 [16]
Lee Sinnott  England 5 November 2007 22 September 2008 44 9 11 24 20.5 [17]
Dean Glover
Andy Porter caretaker		  England
 England		 23 September 2008 6 October 2008 2 0 0 2 0.0 [16]
Dean Glover  England 6 October 2008 2 May 2009 39 12 8 19 30.8 [16]
Micky Adams (first spell)  England 5 June 2009 30 December 2010 81 35 27 19 43.2 [18]
Mark Grew
Geoff Horsfield caretaker		  England
 England		 30 December 2010 6 January 2011 2 1 0 1 50.0 [13][19]
Jim Gannon  Republic of Ireland 6 January 2011 21 March 2011 15 4 4 7 26.7 [20]
Mark Grew caretaker  England 21 March 2011 8 May 2011 10 2 4 4 20.0 [13]
Micky Adams (second spell)  England 13 May 2011 18 September 2014 166 67 37 62 40.4 League Two promotion [18]
Rob Page  Wales 18 September 2014 19 May 2016 93 35 20 38 37.6 [21]
Bruno Ribeiro  Portugal 20 June 2016 26 December 2016 29 10 6 13 34.5 [22]
Michael Brown  England 26 December 2016 16 September 2017 34 6 9 19 17.6 [23]
David Kelly
Chris Morgan caretaker		  Republic of Ireland
 England		 16 September 2017 4 October 2017 4 1 1 2 25.0 [24]
Neil Aspin  England 4 October 2017 Present 40 12 13 15 30.0 [25]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 List of Port Vale F.C. managers at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Harry Myatt management career statistics at Soccerbase
  3. ↑ Tom Holford management career statistics at Soccerbase
  4. ↑ Billy Frith management career statistics at Soccerbase
  5. ↑ Gordon Hodgson management career statistics at Soccerbase
  6. ↑ Ivor Powell management career statistics at Soccerbase
  7. 1 2 Freddie Steele management career statistics at Soccerbase
  8. ↑ Norman Low management career statistics at Soccerbase
  9. ↑ Gordon Lee management career statistics at Soccerbase
  10. ↑ Dennis Butler management career statistics at Soccerbase
  11. ↑ Alan Bloor management career statistics at Soccerbase
  12. ↑ John Rudge management career statistics at Soccerbase
  13. 1 2 3 Mark Grew management career statistics at Soccerbase
  14. ↑ Brian Horton management career statistics at Soccerbase
  15. ↑ Martin Foyle management career statistics at Soccerbase
  16. 1 2 3 Dean Glover management career statistics at Soccerbase
  17. ↑ Lee Sinnott management career statistics at Soccerbase
  18. 1 2 Micky Adams management career statistics at Soccerbase
  19. ↑ "Managers Geoff Horsfield". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  20. ↑ Jim Gannon management career statistics at Soccerbase
  21. ↑ Robert Page management career statistics at Soccerbase
  22. ↑ Bruno Ribeiro management career statistics at Soccerbase
  23. ↑ Michael Brown management career statistics at Soccerbase
  24. ↑ Chris Morgan management career statistics at Soccerbase
  25. ↑ Neil Aspin management career statistics at Soccerbase
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