John Ward (football manager)

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John Ward
Personal information
Full name	John Patrick Ward
Date of birth	April 7, 1951 (age 55)
Place of birth	Lincoln, England
Playing position	Manager (former striker)
Club information
Current club	Cheltenham Town
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1970-1979 1972 1979-1981 1981-1982 1982	Lincoln City → Workington (loan) Watford Grimsby Town Lincoln City	240 (91) 011 0(3) 027 0(6) 003 0(0) 001 0(0)
Teams managed
1991-1993 1993-1996 1997-1998 2000-2001 2003-present	York City Bristol Rovers Bristol City Wolves (caretaker) Cheltenham Town
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

John Ward (born 7 April 1951 in Lincoln) is the current manager of English Football League One club Cheltenham Town, having been appointed in 2003.

As a player, Ward spent the bulk of his career as a forward at Lincoln City where he scored more than 100 goals between 1970 and 1979. He also had spells at Watford, Grimsby and Workington.

Following his retirement from playing, Ward was assistant manager to Graham Taylor at Watford from 1982 to 1987. He followed Taylor and was his assistant at Aston Villa between 1987 and 1991. He took up his first managerial post at York City in 1991. His second top job was at Bristol Rovers from 1993 to 1996. After this he was Adrian Heath's assistant at Burnley (1996 to 1997), manager of Bristol City (1997 to 1998) and Dave Jones's assistant at Wolverhampton Wanderers (1998 to 2003).

Ward became manager of Cheltenham Town in November 2003 (following the sacking of Bobby Gould) and led the Robins to two successive mid-table finishes. A dramatic improvement followed in 2006, as he led the club to a playoff final victory over Grimsby Town at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, to secure promotion to League One.

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
York City		October 1, 1991	March 1, 1993	70	22	24	24	31.42
Bristol Rovers		August 1, 1993	May 10, 1996	155	65	48	42	41.93
Bristol City		March 27, 1997	October 28, 1998	84	38	27	19	45.23
Wolverhampton Wanderers		December 18, 2000	January 3, 2001	4	3	1	0	75.00
Cheltenham Town		November 6, 2003	Present	173	66	64	43	38.15

[edit] External links

• John Ward's LMA Profile
• John Ward managerial statistics at soccerbase.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by John Bird	York City F.C. Manager 1991–1993	Succeeded by Alan Little
Preceded by Malcolm Allison	Bristol Rovers F.C. Manager 1993–1996	Succeeded by Ian Holloway
Preceded by Joe Jordan	Bristol City F.C. Manager 1997–1998	Succeeded by Benny Lennartsson
Preceded by Bobby Gould	Cheltenham Town F.C. Manager November 2003–Present	Succeeded by Incumbent

Cheltenham Town F.C. - Current Squad
1 Higgs | 2 Gill | 3 Victory | 4 Duff | 5 Caines | 6 Lowe | 7 Wilson | 8 Finnigan | 9 Guinan | 10 Spencer | 11 McCann | 12 Brown | 14 Bird | 15 Townsend | 16 Connolly | 17 Odejayi | 18 Vincent | 19 Armstrong | 20 Gallinagh | 22 Melligan | 23 Reid | 25 Gillespie | 27 Paul | 30 Yao | 31 Brown | 32 Connor | 33 Bell | 34 Puddy | Manager: Ward

York City F.C. - Managers

Collier (1928-30) | Sherrington (1930-33) | Collier (1933-37) | Mitchell (1937-50) | Duckworth (1950-52) | Spencer (1952-53) | McCormick (1953-54) | Bartram (1956-60) | Lockie (1960-67) | Shaw (1967-68) | Johnston (1968-75) | McGuinness (1975-77) | Wright (1977-80) | Lyons (1980-81) | Randall (1981-82) | Smith (1982-87) | Saxton (1987-88) | Bird (1988-91) | Ward (1991-93) | Little (1993-99) | Thompson (1999-2000) | Dolan (2000-03) | Brass (2003-04) | Busby (2004-05) | McEwan (2005-)