Chris Hutchings

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Chris Hutchings
Full name	Christopher Hutchings
Date of birth	July 5, 1957 (1957-07-05) (age 50)
Place of birth	Winchester, England
Playing position	Defender
Youth clubs
	Harrow Borough
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1980–83 1983–87 1987–90 1990–91 1991–94	Chelsea Brighton & Hove Albion Huddersfield Town Walsall Rotherham United	087 0(3) 153 0(4) 110 (10) 040 0(0) 078 0(4)
Teams managed
2000 2007	Bradford City Wigan Athletic
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Christopher "Chris" Hutchings (born 5 July 1957 in Winchester, England) is an English former footballer and a manager, currently assistant manager at Derby County He played for a number of clubs including Chelsea and played more than 100 games for Brighton & Hove Albion and Huddersfield Town. He has managed in the Premier League with Bradford City and Wigan Athletic.

1 Playing career
2 Management career
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Playing career

As a player, slick-haired Hutchings spent time at Harrow Borough, Chelsea, Brighton & Hove Albion, Huddersfield Town, Walsall and Rotherham United. In total he made 468 senior league appearances for his various clubs.

[edit] Management career

His first coaching role came at Rotherham, where he was youth team coach. He moved to Bradford City as assistant manager under Chris Kamara and continued in the role under Paul Jewell. In his time at Bradford, the club was promoted from the Second Division to the Premier League.

Hutchings took charge as Bradford's manager during the 2000–01 season after Jewell moved to Sheffield Wednesday.^[1] He took Bradford to the semi-finals of the Intertoto Cup and won the club's first Premiership home game of the season with a 2–0 win over Chelsea. However, he lasted a total of only 21 competitive games, and his win against Chelsea was the only one in 12 Premiership games, before being sacked on 6 November 2000.^[2]

Hutchings linked up again with Jewell as assistant manager now at Wigan Athletic in 2001. In May 2007, he succeeded Jewell as manager for a second time.^[3] Wigan made an impressive start to the season, going top for a short period in August. However after six consecutive defeats Wigan sacked Hutchings on 5 November 2007 after the club dropped into the Premier League relegation zone after just 12 Premiership games — almost seven years to the day he was sacked at Bradford. His last game in charge was a 2–0 home defeat to Chelsea.^[4]

He joined Bury on a voluntary basis in January 2008 to assist caretaker manager Chris Brass.^[5] but left on 24 April 2008 to link up with Paul Jewell a third time, this time as his assistant with Derby County. ^[6]

[edit] References

^ "Hutchings appointed new Bantams boss", BBC Sport, 2000-06-22. Retrieved on 2007-05-14.
^ "Bradford sack Hutchings", BBC Sport, 2000-11-06. Retrieved on 2007-05-14.
^ "Wigan name Hutchings as new boss", BBC Sport, 2007-05-14. Retrieved on 2007-05-14.
^ "Hutchings sacked as Wigan manager", BBC Sport, 2007-11-05. Retrieved on 2007-11-05.
^ "Hutchings helping Brass at Bury", BBC Sport, 2008-01-22. Retrieved on 2008-01-22.
^ "Hutchings set to take Derby role", BBC Sport, 2008-04-24. Retrieved on 2008-04-24.

[edit] External links

Chris Hutchings management career stats at Soccerbase

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Bradford City A.F.C. – Managers

Campbell (1903–05) • O'Rourke (1905–21) • Menzies (1921–26) • Veitch (1926–28) • Foster (1928) • O'Rourke (1928–30) • Peart (1930–35) • Ray (1935–37) • Westgarth (1938–43) • Sharp (1943–46) • Barker (1946–47) • Milburn (1947–48) • Steele (1948–52) • A Harris (52) • Powell (1952–55) • Jackson (1955–61) • Brocklebank (1961–64) • B Harris (1965–66) • Watson (1966–67) • Hair (1967–68) • McAnearney & Hallett (1968) • Wheeler (1968–71) • Wilson (1971) • Edwards (1971–75) • Kennedy (1975–78) • Napier (1978) • Mulhall (1978–81) • McFarland (1981–82) • Cherry (1982–87) • Dolan (1987–89) • Yorath (1989–90) • Docherty (1990–91) • Stapleton (1991–94) • Lawrence (1994–95) • Kamara (1995–98) • Jewell (1998–2000) • Hutchings (2000) • McCall (2000) • Jefferies (2000–01) • Smith (2001) • Law (2002–03) • Four senior players (2003) • Robson (2003–04) • Todd (2004–07) • Wetherall (2007) • McCall (2007–)

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Wigan Athletic F.C. – Managers

Spencer (1932–37) • Milne (1946–47) • Pryde (1949–52) • Goodier (1952–54) • Crook (1954–55) • Suart (1955–56) • Cooke (1956) • Barkas (1957) • Hitchen (1957–58) • Barrass (1958–59) • Shirley (1959) • Murphy (1959–60) • Chilton (1960) • Ball (1961–63) • Brown (1963–66) • Craig (1966–67) • Leyland (1967–68) • Saunders (1968) • McNeill (1968–70) • Milne (1970–72) • Rigby (1972–74) • Tiler (1974–76) • McNeill (1976–81) • Lloyd (1981–83) • Charlton (1983) • McNally (1983–85) • Hamilton (1985–86) • Mathias (1986–89) • Hamilton (1989–93) • Philpotts (1993) • Swain (1993–94) • Barrow (1994–95) • Cribley (1995) • Deehan (1995–98) • Mathias (1998–99) • Benson (1999–2000) • Rioch (2000–01) • Greenall (2001) • Bruce (2001) • Jewell (2001–07) • Hutchings (2007) • Barlow (2007) • Bruce (2007–)