Peter Atherton (footballer)

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Peter Atherton
Personal information
Date of birth (1970-04-06) 6 April 1970 (age 54)
Place of birth Wigan, England
Position(s) Defender, midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Bolton Wanderers (assistant manager)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1988–1991 Wigan Athletic 149 (1)
1991–1994 Coventry City 114 (0)
1994–2000 Sheffield Wednesday 216 (9)
2000–2005 Bradford City 94 (3)
2001 → Birmingham City (loan) 10 (0)
2005–2008 Halifax Town 14 (0)
Total598(13)
International career
1991 England U21 1 (0)
Managerial career
2003 Bradford City (joint caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Peter Atherton (born 6 April 1970) is an English football coach and former professional player who is assistant manager of Bolton Wanderers.

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As a player, he was a defender who notably played in the Premier League for Coventry City, Sheffield Wednesday and Bradford City. He also played in the Football League for Wigan Athletic and Birmingham City before finishing his career with non-league Halifax Town. He was capped once at England U21 level.

Since retirement he has worked as assistant manager of Halifax Town before returning to Wigan Athletic as a youth team coach. He was appointed assistant manager of Barrow and later followed manager Ian Evatt to Bolton Wanderers.

Early life

Atherton was born in Wigan, Lancashire.

Playing career

Most famous for captaining Sheffield Wednesday, Atherton started his career at hometown club Wigan Athletic as a trainee and spent three years there before attracting the attention of Coventry City. Atherton scored his first Premier League goal on the 27th November 1994 – a "freakishly spectacular 40-yard" volley for Wednesday in the televised 1-1 draw at Aston Villa. [1] [2] [3] Atherton was lured away from Wednesday by Bradford City after relegation on the Bosman ruling where he also spent a spell on loan at Birmingham City. Birmingham reached the League Cup final, however, Atherton was unable to play as he was cup-tied. [4] After being released by Bradford on a free transfer he finished his career at Halifax Town, where injury forced him to retire from professional football after playing only 14 games for the club, but came out of retirement because of Halifax's injury crisis and was named as a substitute for their home game against Grays Athletic on 16 October 2007.

Coaching career

In June 2007, Atherton was appointed assistant manager of Halifax Town, replacing Wayne Jacobs. He had previously been coaching in Wigan Athletic's youth set-up. [5]

He also played for Sheffield Wednesday in their 2006 Masters Football campaign, and Wigan Athletic in 2007.

He became assistant manager at Barrow in July 2018. [6]

On 1 July 2020, he was appointed as the assistant head coach of Bolton Wanderers, following Barrow head coach Ian Evatt to the University of Bolton Stadium. [7] After the departure of Director of football Tobias Phoenix on 11 December [8] Atherton's role was changed from Assistant head coach to assistant manager. [9]

Honours

Individual

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References

  1. ↑ Rowbottom, Mike (28 November 1994). "Atherton's lesson for Little". The Independent.
  2. ↑ Aston Villa F.C (27 March 2020). Aston Villa v Sheffield Wednesday 1994 . Retrieved 28 August 2024– via YouTube.
  3. ↑ "Aston Villa v Sheff Weds, 1994/95 | Premier League". www.premierleague.com. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  4. ↑ "Horsfield bounces back". BBC Sport. 23 February 2001. Retrieved 15 September 2008.
  5. ↑ "Atherton is new Halifax assistant". 2 July 2007 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  6. ↑ "Bluebirds Boss Completes Backroom Line Up". Barrow AFC. 2 July 2018. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  7. ↑ "Ian Evatt: Bolton Wanderers name Barrow manager as new head coach". BBC Sport. 1 July 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  8. ↑ "Head of Football Operations Tobias Phoenix exits Bolton Wanderers". The Bolton News. 11 December 2020.
  9. ↑ "Ian Evatt's Job Title Changes To Manager | Bolton Wanderers FC". www.bwfc.co.uk.
  10. ↑ Lynch. The Official P.F.A. Footballers Heroes. p. 148.
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