This is a list of Swansea City A.F.C. managers and their records from 1912, when the club was founded and their first professional manager appointed, to the present day.
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The first manager to be appointed to Swansea Town was Walter Whittaker. In the club's first season, Whittaker led Swansea to their first Welsh Cup win. Haydn Green is Swansea's longest serving manager, having held the position for 8 years, 123 days spanning World War II. Statistically, Roberto Martínez is Swansea's most successful manager with a 50% winning percentage in all competitive games. As a player-manager, John Toshack guided Swansea City to three promotions in four years, from the Fourth Division to the First Division. Swansea finished the 1981–81 season in sixth place – their highest ever league position. There have been three managers hired on a 'permanent' basis (Kevin Cullis, Jimmy Rimmer and Micky Adams) who had winless records during their brief stints at Swansea that spanned less than four weeks between all three of them, in two separate periods of 1996 and 1997.
This list of all managers includes performance records and honours.
P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost
Picture | Name | Nationality | From | To | Length | P | W | D | L | Win% | Honours | Ref. |
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Walter Whittaker | ![]() | 1 August 1912 | 31 May 1914 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50.00 | 1 Welsh Cup | [1] | ||
William Bartlett | ![]() | 1 August 1914 | 31 May 1915 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33.33 | [2] | |||
Joe Bradshaw | ![]() | 1 August 1919 | 1 May 1926 | 272 | 128 | 73 | 71 | 47.06 | 1 Third Division South Championship | [3] | ||
Jimmy Thomson | ![]() | 4 April 1927 | 31 May 1931 | 176 | 59 | 43 | 74 | 33.52 | [4] | |||
Neil Harris | ![]() | 1 July 1934 | 1 May 1939 | 218 | 71 | 49 | 98 | 32.57 | [5] | |||
Haydn Green | ![]() | 1 May 1939 | 1 September 1947 | 50 | 13 | 9 | 28 | 26.00 | [6] | |||
Billy McCandless | ![]() | 1 November 1948 | 1 July 1955 | 294 | 113 | 61 | 120 | 38.44 | 1 Third Division South Championship, 1 Welsh Cup | [7] | ||
Ronnie Burgess | ![]() | 1 July 1955 | 1 August 1958 | 129 | 50 | 22 | 57 | 38.76 | [8] | |||
Trevor Morris | ![]() | 1 August 1958 | 31 May 1965 | 327 | 112 | 77 | 138 | 34.25 | 1 Welsh Cup | [9] | ||
Glyn Davies | ![]() | 1 June 1965 | 1 October 1966 | 58 | 16 | 15 | 27 | 27.59 | 1 Welsh Cup | [10] | ||
Billy Lucas | ![]() | 1 February 1967 | 1 March 1969 | 97 | 34 | 24 | 39 | 35.05 | [11] | |||
Roy Bentley | ![]() | 1 August 1969 | 16 October 1972 | 153 | 56 | 45 | 52 | 36.60 | 1 Fourth Division promotion | [12] | ||
Harry Gregg | ![]() | 1 November 1972 | 1 January 1975 | 101 | 34 | 23 | 44 | 33.66 | [13] | |||
Harry Griffiths | ![]() | 1 January 1975 | 29 October 1977 | 127 | 54 | 28 | 45 | 42.52 | [14] | |||
22 November 1977 | 1 February 1978 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 44.44 | [14] | |||||
![]() | John Toshack [nb 1] | ![]() | 1 February 1978 | 29 October 1983 | 251 | 104 | 59 | 88 | 41.43 | 1 Fourth Division promotion, 1 Third Division promotion, 1 Second Division promotion, 3 Welsh Cups | [15] | |
Doug Livermore [nb 2] | ![]() | 29 October 1983 | 21 December 1983 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 11.11 | [16] | |||
![]() | John Toshack [nb 1] | ![]() | 21 December 1983 | 4 March 1984 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 18.18 | [15] | ||
Les Chappell [nb 2] | ![]() | 4 March 1984 | 16 May 1984 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 25.00 | ||||
Colin Appleton | ![]() | 16 May 1984 | 6 December 1984 | 22 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 18.18 | [17] | |||
Les Chappell [nb 2] | ![]() | 6 December 1984 | 16 December 1984 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | [18] | |||
John Bond | ![]() | 16 December 1984 | 20 December 1985 | 54 | 15 | 11 | 28 | 27.78 | [19] | |||
Tommy Hutchison [nb 1] | ![]() | 21 December 1985 | 1 May 1986 | 23 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 26.09 | [20] | |||
![]() | Terry Yorath [nb 1] | ![]() | 12 July 1986 | 2 February 1989 | 139 | 58 | 35 | 46 | 41.73 | 1 Fourth Division play-off winner, 1 Welsh Cup | [21] | |
Ian Evans | ![]() | 27 February 1989 | 13 March 1990 | 58 | 15 | 19 | 24 | 25.86 | [22] | |||
![]() | Terry Yorath | ![]() | 15 March 1990 | 21 March 1991 | 51 | 15 | 10 | 26 | 29.41 | [21] | ||
Frank Burrows | ![]() | 21 March 1991 | 31 July 1995 | 231 | 85 | 65 | 81 | 36.80 | 1 Welsh Cup, 1 Football League Trophy | [23] | ||
Bobby Smith | ![]() | 1 August 1995 | 31 July 1996 | 49 | 12 | 14 | 23 | 24.49 | [24] | |||
Kevin Cullis | ![]() | 8 February 1996 | 14 February 1996 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | [25] | |||
Jimmy Rimmer | ![]() | 14 February 1996 | 22 February 1996 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | [26] | |||
![]() | Jan Mølby [nb 1] | ![]() | 22 February 1996 | 8 October 1997 | 80 | 31 | 16 | 33 | 38.75 | [27] | ||
| Micky Adams [nb 1] | ![]() | 9 October 1997 | 22 October 1997 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | [28] | ||
Alan Cork | ![]() | 22 October 1997 | 30 June 1998 | 35 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 28.57 | [29] | |||
John Hollins | ![]() | 1 July 1998 | 12 September 2001 | 170 | 63 | 47 | 60 | 37.06 | 1 Third Division Championship | [30] | ||
Colin Addison | ![]() | 13 September 2001 | 7 March 2002 | 35 | 11 | 8 | 16 | 31.43 | [31] | |||
Roger Freestone [nb 3] | ![]() | 8 March 2002 | 20 April 2002 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12.50 | [32] | |||
Nick Cusack [nb 3] | ![]() | 8 March 2002 | 19 September 2002 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 25.00 | [33] | |||
Brian Flynn | ![]() | 19 September 2002 | 18 March 2004 | 82 | 28 | 22 | 32 | 34.15 | [34] | |||
Alan Curtis [nb 2] | ![]() | 18 March 2004 | 5 April 2004 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 25.00 | [35] | |||
![]() | Kenny Jackett | ![]() | 5 April 2004 | 15 February 2007 | 156 | 69 | 40 | 47 | 44.23 | 1 League Two promotion, 1 Football League Trophy | [36] | |
![]() | Kevin Nugent [nb 2] | ![]() | 15 February 2007 | 24 February 2007 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.00 | [37] | ||
![]() | Roberto Martínez | ![]() | 24 February 2007 | 15 June 2009 | 126 | 63 | 37 | 26 | 50.00 | 1 League One Championship | [38] | |
![]() | Paulo Sousa | ![]() | 22 June 2009 | 5 July 2010 | 49 | 18 | 18 | 13 | 36.73 | [39] | ||
![]() | Brendan Rodgers | ![]() | 16 July 2010 | 1 June 2012 | 96 | 43 | 20 | 33 | 44.79 | 1 Championship play-off winner | [40] | |
![]() | Michael Laudrup | ![]() | 17 June 2012 | 4 February 2014 | 84 | 29 | 24 | 31 | 34.52 | 1 Football League Cup | [41] | |
![]() | Garry Monk | ![]() | 4 February 2014 | 9 December 2015 | 77 | 28 | 17 | 32 | 36.36 | [42] | ||
Alan Curtis [nb 2] | ![]() | 9 December 2015 | 18 January 2016 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 25.00 | [43] | |||
| Francesco Guidolin | ![]() | 18 January 2016 | 3 October 2016 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 36.00 | [44] | ||
![]() | Bob Bradley | ![]() | 3 October 2016 | 27 December 2016 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 18.18 | [45] | ||
Alan Curtis [nb 2] | ![]() | 27 December 2016 | 3 January 2017 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50.00 | [46] | |||
![]() | Paul Clement | ![]() | 3 January 2017 | 20 December 2017 | 37 | 12 | 5 | 20 | 32.43 | [47] | ||
![]() | Leon Britton [nb 2] | ![]() | 21 December 2017 | 28 December 2017 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | [48] | ||
| Carlos Carvalhal | ![]() | 28 December 2017 | 18 May 2018 | 24 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 33.33 | [49] | ||
![]() | Graham Potter | ![]() | 11 June 2018 | 20 May 2019 | 51 | 21 | 11 | 19 | 41.18 | [50] | ||
![]() | Steve Cooper | ![]() | 13 June 2019 | 21 July 2021 | 105 | 47 | 28 | 30 | 44.76 | [51] | ||
![]() | Russell Martin | ![]() | 1 August 2021 | 21 June 2023 | 99 | 36 | 26 | 37 | 36.36 | [52] | ||
![]() | Michael Duff | ![]() | 22 June 2023 | 4 December 2023 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 28.57 | [53] | ||
Alan Sheehan [nb 2] | ![]() | 4 December 2023 | 5 January 2024 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 42.86 | [54] | |||
![]() | Luke Williams | ![]() | 5 January 2024 | present | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 16.67 | [55] |
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