| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Andrew John Woodman [1] | ||
| Date of birth | 11 August 1971 [1] | ||
| Place of birth | Camberwell, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) [1] | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Bromley (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| ?–1989 | Crystal Palace | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1989–1994 | Crystal Palace | 0 | (0) |
| 1994–1995 | Exeter City | 6 | (0) |
| 1995–1999 | Northampton Town | 163 | (0) |
| 1999 | → Brentford (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 1999–2001 | Brentford | 60 | (0) |
| 2000 | → Peterborough United (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2000 | → Southend United (loan) | 17 | (0) |
| 2000 | → Colchester United (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | Colchester United | 48 | (0) |
| 2002 | → Oxford United (loan) | 12 | (0) |
| 2002–2004 | Oxford United | 89 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | Stevenage Borough | 21 | (0) |
| 2005 | Redbridge | 1 | (0) |
| 2005 | Thurrock | 14 | (0) |
| 2005–2006 | Rushden & Diamonds | 3 | (0) |
| Total | 438 | (0) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2017 | Whitehawk | ||
| 2021– | Bromley | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Andrew John Woodman (born 11 August 1971) is an English football manager and former player, who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently the manager of National League club Bromley.
Woodman made league appearances for 10 clubs in England during his playing career. Following his retirement, aside from his managerial career, he has been a goalkeeping coach at several Premier League clubs, including Newcastle United, West Ham United, Crystal Palace, and Arsenal.
Woodman spent the first five years of his career playing at Crystal Palace without making a first team appearance. In 1994, he moved to Exeter City making his debut at Lincoln City on the opening day of the season, but his time at St. James' Park was cut short following red cards in two successive matches. He was first sent off against Leyton Orient for violent conduct and then a week later for deliberate handball against Colchester United in the FA Cup. In both games, Woodman was replaced by 15-year old substitute Ross Bellotti, who remains the youngest goalkeeper ever to appear in the football league or FA Cup proper. [2]
Woodman moved to Northampton Town in March 1995 where he is regarded as something of a cult figure, being granted a testimonial by the club in summer 2007. He was loaned to Brentford in January 1999 and then moved there on a free transfer. After loans spells at Southend United and Colchester United in 2000, he signed permanently for Colchester United for the start of the 2001–02 season. Woodman found himself loaned out again, this time to Oxford United in January 2002, before signing permanently for them when the loan ended in March. Woodman was released by Oxford United in 2004 and then played for Stevenage Borough, Redbridge and Thurrock. His final match for Thurrock was a 4-2 Conference South play-off defeat against Eastbourne Borough on 3 May 2005. [3] Woodman then briefly returned to the Football League with Rushden & Diamonds, making the final appearance of his career in a 2–1 defeat at Barnet on 29 October 2005. [4]
In spring of 2006 he was appointed assistant manager at Rushden & Diamonds but left the club after they were relegated from the Football League at the end of that season to join his former teammate Alan Pardew at West Ham United as a coach. When Pardew moved to Charlton Athletic, Woodman followed him in the summer of 2007 as goalkeeping coach. In December 2010 he linked up with Pardew again at Newcastle United as goalkeeping coach and on 31 July 2015, he joined Crystal Palace in the same position to work under Pardew again. On 9 January 2017, following Pardew's departure and the appointment of Sam Allardyce as manager of Crystal Palace, it was announced that Woodman had left the club. [5]
Woodman was appointed to his first managerial role on 1 February 2017 at National League South club Whitehawk. [6] [7] He left the club later that year after ensuring National League South safety. [8]
On 29 March 2021, he left his position as Head of Goalkeeping at Arsenal and was appointed as the new manager of National League club Bromley. [9] After guiding the club to the play-offs on the final day of the season, Woodman was awarded the league's Manager of the Month award for May 2021. [10]
On 18 January 2022, Bromley announced that they had received an official approach from League One side Gillingham for permission to speak to Woodman regarding their managerial vacancy. [11] Bromley went on to say that permission had been granted for both parties to speak. On 30 January Bromley announced that Woodman would stay on as manager after turning down the approach from Gillingham. [12]
Woodman won his first trophy as a manager, the FA Trophy, in May 2022.
A strong start to the 2023–24 season saw Woodman awarded the Manager of the Month award for a second time for September 2023, guiding his side to nineteen points from a possible twenty-one. [13] Having finished 2023 in second place, he won the award for a second time in the season for December. [14] In May 2024, Bromley won the 2024 National League play-off final which saw the club promoted to the EFL for the first time in their history. [15]
Woodman's son, Freddie, is a goalkeeper with Preston North End. Gareth Southgate is Freddie's godfather. [16]
Woodman co-authored a book Woody & Nord: A Football Friendship with England manager Gareth Southgate about their close friendship which grew from their time together as youth players at Crystal Palace, followed by their wildly differing fortunes in the professional game. Southgate's nickname Nord was given to him by Wally Downes, who thought he sounded like Denis Norden. [17] The book won the best sports autobiography category at the 2004 British Sports Book Awards. [18]
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
| Whitehawk [19] |  | 1 February 2017 | 7 June 2017 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 21 | 31 | −10 | 33.33 |
| Bromley [20] | | 29 March 2021 | Present | 171 | 78 | 53 | 40 | 259 | 196 | +63 | 45.61 |
| Total | 189 | 84 | 56 | 49 | 280 | 227 | +53 | 44.44 | |||
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