Bill Dearden

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Bill Dearden
Personal information
Full name	William Dearden
Date of birth	February 11, 1944 (age 63)
Place of birth	Oldham, England
Playing position	Manager (former striker)
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1963-1966 1966-1968 1968-1970 1970-1976 1976-1977 1977-1979	Oldham Athletic Crewe Alexandra Chester City Sheffield United Chester City Chesterfield	034 (2) 047 (7) 085 (22) 175 (61) 036 (7) 027 (2)
Teams managed
1999 1999-2002 2002-2004 2006-present	Port Vale (caretaker) Mansfield Town Notts County Mansfield Town
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

William (Bill) Dearden (born 11 February 1944 in Oldham, England) is an English football manager currently in charge of League Two side Mansfield Town. Dearden also managed the Stags between 1999 and 2002, and was named Mansfield manager for the second time on 28 December 2006.^[1] He has also managed Notts County, and had a four-day spell as joint caretaker manager of Port Vale in 1999.

As a player, Dearden was a striker with Oldham Athletic, Crewe Alexandra, Chester City (two spells), Sheffield United and Chesterfield. His most successful spell as a player was arguably his six years at Sheffield United, where he scored more than 60 goals. His coaching career began in the late 1970s when he was player-coach at Chesterfield. He joined Mansfield's coaching staff in 1983.

Dearden spent eleven years at Mansfield, first as youth-team coach, and later first-team coach. In 1994, he took up a similar position at Port Vale, and was briefly the club's caretaker manager following John Rudge's 1999 dismissal. He subsequently left Port Vale when Brian Horton was named manager. He returned to Mansfield later the same year when he was named caretaker manager and later full-time manager, following Steve Parkin's departure.

During his three-year stay as Mansfield manager, he brought up several talented youngsters from the youth team, including Liam Lawrence, Bobby Hassell and Lee Williamson, and signed key players such as Chris Greenacre and Wayne Corden, guiding the Stags to the verge of promotion. However, he left the club midway through the 2001/02 promotion season to take control of local rivals Notts County. It is rumoured that his departure came as a result of a dispute with Mansfield chairman Keith Haslam.

Dearden joined Notts County on January 7, 2002 with the club on the brink of relegation and suffering serious financial problems. Dearden successfully guided the Magpies to Division Two safety thanks to eight wins in their final eleven games. The remainder of his tenure at Meadow Lane was dominated by the club's financial problems. He was unable to make a single permanent signing but comfortably kept Notts County in Division Two during his first full season. He left the club by mutual consent on January 7, 2004 with the Magpies under new ownership.^[2] He later held coaching jobs at Blackpool and Milton Keynes Dons, but was out of work when he was named Mansfield manager for a second time in December 2006.

Dearden was voted Nottinghamshire's Sports Personality of the Year in 2003.^[3]

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Port Vale		January 18, 1999	January 22, 1999	0	0	0	0	00.00
Mansfield Town		June 18, 1999	January 6, 2002	134	49	57	28	36.56
Notts County		January 7, 2002	January 7, 2004	103	30	46	27	29.12
Mansfield Town		December 28, 2006	Present	10	3	4	3	30.00

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Bill Dearden management career stats at Soccerbase
• Photo of Billy Dearden

Mansfield Town F.C. - Current Squad
1 White | 2 Mullins | 3 Jelleyman | 4 D'Laryea | 5 Hjelde | 6 Baptiste | 7 Hamshaw | 8 Dawson | 9 Conlon | 10 Brown | 11 M. Boulding | 12 Buxton | 14 Hodge | 15 Coke | 16 Arnold | 19 Muggleton | 20 Gritton | 21 Charlton | 22 Lloyd | 23 Sleath | 24 Wood | 25 McIntosh | 30 R. Boulding | 31 Reet | Manager: Dearden