List of Burnley F.C. managers

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Sean Dyche guided Burnley to two promotions to the Premier League.

Burnley Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Burnley, Lancashire. Founded on 18 May 1882, the club was one of the first to become professional (in 1883), putting pressure on the Football Association to permit payments to players. [1] As a result, the team were able to enter the FA Cup for the first time in 1885–86, and were one of the twelve founding members of the Football League in 1888–89. [1] Burnley have played in the top four tiers of English football from 1888 to the present day. [2] The team have been champions of England twice, in 1920–21 and 1959–60, have won the FA Cup once, in 1913–14, and have won the FA Charity Shield twice, in 1960 and 1973. [2] [3] Burnley were the second, and are one of only five teams to have won all four professional divisions of English football, along with Wolverhampton Wanderers, Preston North End, Sheffield United and Portsmouth. [4] [5]

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From 1882 to 1894, the Burnley team was selected by the board of directors or a committee whose secretary had the same powers and role as a manager has today. [6] In August 1894, the club decided to follow several other clubs and appoint a team manager. Burnley-born Harry Bradshaw was appointed; he had been involved with the club since its foundation in 1882 and he had been a committee member since 1887. [6] Scotsman Frank Hill, who was in charge of Burnley from October 1948 to August 1954, was the first non-English manager in the club's history. [7] From 1954 to 1983, under chairman Bob Lord, only managers with a previous playing career at the club were appointed—this trend ended when John Bond took the post in June 1983. [8] [9] Two Burnley managers have died in the job—Spen Whittaker and John Haworth. [10]

The longest-serving person to manage Burnley is Harry Potts, who was in charge of the club for a total of 728 competitive matches: from February 1958 to February 1970 and from February 1977 to October 1979. [11] [12] Haworth and Potts are Burnley's most successful managers in terms of competitive honours won, as Haworth claimed one FA Cup (1913–14) and one First Division title (1920–21), while Potts won one First Division title (1959–60) and one Charity Shield (1960). [11]

From the beginning of the club's official managerial records in 1894 to the present, Burnley have had 30 permanent managers and 6 caretakers. [11] [12] The club's current manager is Scott Parker, who was appointed in July 2024. [13]

List of managers

Information correct after match played on 19 May 2024. Only competitive matches are counted, except the abandoned 1939–40 Football League season and matches in Wartime Leagues and Cups.

Key
List of Burnley F.C. managers
NameNationalityFromToMatchesWonDrawn [lower-alpha 1] LostWin% [lower-alpha 2] HonoursRefs.
Harry Bradshaw Flag of England.svg  England August 1894June 1899 [lower-alpha 3] 164653762039.63 Second Division title: 1897–98 [6] [14]
Ernest Mangnall Flag of England.svg  England March 1900October 1903125442754035.20 [15] [16]
Spen Whittaker Flag of England.svg  England October 1903April 1910 [lower-alpha 4] 26210848106041.22 [17] [18]
John Haworth Flag of England.svg  England July 1910December 1924464203106155043.75 Second Division promotion: 1912–13
FA Cup winners: 1913–14
First Division runners–up: 1919–20
First Division title: 1920–21
FA Charity Shield runners–up: 1921
[10] [19]
Albert Pickles Flag of England.svg  England January 1925August 193233612071145035.71 [20] [21]
Tom Bromilow Flag of England.svg  England October 1932July 1935131502853038.17 [22]
Selection Committee [lower-alpha 5] July 1935September 1939177634470035.59 [23]
Cliff Britton Flag of England.svg  England May 1945September 1948100493021049.00 FA Cup runners–up: 1946–47
Second Division promotion: 1946–47
[23] [24]
Frank Hill Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland October 1948August 19542661056893039.47 [7] [25]
Alan Brown Flag of England.svg  England August 1954July 1957138573249041.30 [26]
Billy Dougall Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland July 1957January 19583115412048.39 [27] [28]
Harry Potts Flag of England.svg  England February 1958February 1970605272141192044.96 First Division title: 1959–60
FA Charity Shield winners (shared): 1960
First Division runners–up: 1961–62
FA Cup runners–up: 1961–62
[29] [30]
Jimmy Adamson Flag of England.svg  England February 1970January 19762721047494038.24 Second Division title: 1972–73
FA Charity Shield winners: 1973
Texaco Cup runners–up: 1973–74
[31] [32]
Joe Brown Flag of England.svg  England January 1976February 197753121526022.64 [33]
Harry Potts Flag of England.svg  England February 1977October 1979123423249034.15 Anglo–Scottish Cup winners: 1978–79 [29] [30]
Brian Miller Flag of England.svg  England October 1979January 1983166575059034.34 Third Division title: 1981–82 [34] [35]
Frank Casper *Flag of England.svg  England January 1983June 1983341789050.00 [36] [37]
John Bond Flag of England.svg  England June 1983August 198453181619033.96 [38]
John Benson Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland August 1984May 198553141326026.42 [39] [40]
Martin Buchan Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland June 1985October 198513526038.46 [41]
Tommy Cavanagh Flag of England.svg  England October 1985June 19863713915035.14 [42]
Brian Miller Flag of England.svg  England July 1986January 1989126433053034.13 Associate Members' Cup runners–up: 1987–88 [34] [35]
Frank Casper Flag of England.svg  England January 1989October 1991143513656035.66 [37]
Jimmy Mullen Flag of England.svg  England October 1991February 1996249976785038.96 Fourth Division title: 1991–92
Second Division play–off winners: 1993–94
[43] [44]
Clive Middlemass *Flag of England.svg  England February 1996March 19963012000.00 [45]
Adrian Heath Flag of England.svg  England March 1996June 199771261827036.62 [46] [47]
Chris Waddle Flag of England.svg  England July 1997May 199857171624029.82 [48] [49]
Stan Ternent Flag of England.svg  England June 1998June 200431212282108039.10 Second Division promotion: 1999–2000 [50] [51]
Steve Cotterill Flag of England.svg  England June 2004November 2007170554966032.35 [52]
Steve Davis *Flag of England.svg  England November 2007November 20071100100.00 [53] [54]
Owen Coyle Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland November 2007January 2010116492938042.24 Championship play–off winners: 2008–09 [55] [56]
Brian Laws Flag of England.svg  England January 2010December 20104413922029.55 [57]
Stuart Gray *Flag of England.svg  England December 2010January 20114211050.00 [58] [59]
Eddie Howe Flag of England.svg  England January 2011October 201287341934039.08 [60]
Terry Pashley *Flag of England.svg  England October 2012October 20123201066.67 [61] [62]
Sean Dyche Flag of England.svg  England October 2012April 2022425149118158035.06 Championship promotion: 2013–14
Championship title: 2015–16
[63] [64]
Mike Jackson *Flag of England.svg  England April 2022May 20228323037.50 [65] [66]
Vincent Kompany Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium June 2022May 202496412431042.71 Championship title: 2022–23 [67] [68]
Scott Parker [lower-alpha 6] Flag of England.svg  England July 2024 [70]

Notes

  1. Drawn matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
  2. Win% is rounded to two decimal places.
  3. Following Bradshaw's departure to Woolwich Arsenal in June 1899, team affairs remained in the hands of the board of directors until Ernest Mangnall was appointed in March 1900. [6]
  4. Following the death of Whittaker in April 1910, team affairs were placed in the hands of the directors until the end of the season. [10]
  5. After Tom Bromilow left the club in 1935 to manage Crystal Palace, the directors decided to not appoint a team manager due to economical reasons. Team affairs became a joint effort between chairman Tom Clegg, secretary Alf Boland and senior trainer Billy Dougall. [23]
  6. Parker was named head coach instead of manager [13] [69]

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