OUR PLAYERS WHO WENT ON TO MANAGE US
Twelve of our players have gone on to manage us, including Stuart Pearce who did it twice.Some of the players never played a competitive game, including Gary Megson who only played 7 friendlies at the start of the 1984-85 season.
This is the list of our players who then went on to manage us:
| Record as Player | Record as Manager | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Seasons | P | W | D | L | Goals | Manager | Seasons | P | W | D | L | ||
| Harry Radford | 1870-71 | Harry Radford | 1889-97 | 176 | 69 | 34 | 73 | |||||||
| Harold Wightman | 1915-19 | Harold Wightman | 1936-39 | 121 | 33 | 28 | 60 | |||||||
| Billy Walker | 1939-41 | Billy Walker | 1939-60 | 652 | 274 | 147 | 231 | |||||||
| Andy Beattie | 1941-42 | Andy Beattie | 1960-63 | 144 | 52 | 32 | 60 | |||||||
| Martin O'Neill | 1971-81 | 364 | 169 | 101 | 92 | 62 | Martin O'Neill | 2019 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 8 | ||
| Dave Mackay | 1973-74 | Dave Mackay | 1972-73 | 47 | 14 | 15 | 18 | |||||||
| Frank Clark | 1975-79 | 157 | 83 | 40 | 33 | 1 | Frank Clark | 1993-96 | 180 | 74 | 58 | 48 | ||
| Paul Hart | 1982-85 | 86 | 40 | 18 | 28 | 3 | Paul Hart | 2001-04 | 135 | 45 | 41 | 49 | ||
| Gary Megson | 1984-85 | Gary Megson | 2005-06 | 59 | 17 | 18 | 24 | |||||||
| Stuart Pearce | 1985-05 | 522 | 241 | 146 | 134 | 88 | Stuart Pearce | 1996-97 | 23 | 7 | 9 | 7 | ||
| Dougie Freedman | 1996-01 | 82 | 21 | 23 | 38 | 23 | Dougie Freedman | 2015-16 | 57 | 19 | 16 | 22 | ||
| David Platt | 1999-01 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | David Platt | 1999-2001 | 103 | 37 | 25 | 41 | ||
| Colin Calderwood | 1999-01 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | Colin Calderwood | 2006-08 | 136 | 58 | 40 | 38 | |||