Mark Stimson

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Mark Stimson
Personal information
Full name	Mark Nicholas Stimson
Date of birth	December 27, 1967 (1967-12-27) (age 40)
Place of birth	Plaistow, England
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Gillingham (manager)
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1985–1989 1988 1989 1989–1993 1992 1993–1996 1995 1996–1999 1999 2000–2002 2003	Tottenham Hotspur → Leyton Orient (loan) → Gillingham (loan) Newcastle United → Portsmouth (loan) Portsmouth → Barnet (loan) Southend United Leyton Orient Canvey Island Grays Athletic	02 (0) 10 (0) 18 (0) 86 (2) 04 (0) 58 (2) 05 (0) 57 (0) 04 (0) 0? (?) 03 (1)
Teams managed
2003–2006 2006–2007 2007–	Grays Athletic Stevenage Borough Gillingham
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Mark Nicholas Stimson (born 27 December 1967 in Plaistow, England) is an English former footballer and currently manager of Gillingham. He was the first manager to win the FA Trophy in three consecutive seasons, albeit with two different clubs in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Managerial career 3 Notes 4 External links

[edit] Playing career

Stimson began his playing career as an apprentice at Tottenham Hotspur, for whom he signed on professional terms at the age of seventeen. He made only two first team appearances in his time there, but gained league experience in spells at Leyton Orient and Gillingham. He was transferred in 1989 to Newcastle United for a fee of £200,000, where he played more regularly, but in December 1992 was allowed to join Portsmouth on loan, which lead to a £100,000 transfer at the end of that season. After three years on the south coast, including a period on loan at Barnet, he transferred to Southend United, and subsequently had a short spell back at Leyton Orient, where he finished his league playing career at the end of the 1998–99 season.

He joined Isthmian League Premier Division side Canvey Island, and later continued playing, while managing the team, at Grays Athletic.

[edit] Managerial career

Stimson began his managerial career at Essex side Grays Athletic in the latter half of the 2002–03 season, the team being 19th in the Isthmian League Premier Division when he took over. Relegation was avoided, and the following season a 6th place finish earned Grays Conference South status for the 2004–05 season. Grays won the Conference South by a margin of 23 points, thus achieving promotion to the top level of non-league football for the first time in their history. That season, Stimson also managed Grays to FA Trophy success, beating Hucknall Town in the final on penalties, the first of three FA Trophies Stimson would win. The following season started well for Grays, who remained unbeaten for the first 18 games, and they eventually finished 3rd in the Conference National, but were defeated by Halifax Town in the play-off semi-final. A second successive FA Trophy was won by a 2–0 victory over Woking at Upton Park.

Stimson then resigned from his post at Grays, and, having been linked with managerial vacancies at league clubs Milton Keynes Dons and Peterborough, he became, in June 2006, manager of Stevenage Borough. The 2006–07 season started poorly for Borough, but a gradual improvement meant that Stevenage finished in eighth position. Stevenage won the FA Trophy final 3–2 against Kidderminster Harriers at the new Wembley Stadium, in front of a crowd of 53,000. The success in 2007 was Stimson's third in succession.

With Stevenage in fourth place in the league table, and speculation about an approach from league teams Gillingham, Port Vale and Millwall rife, he was offered a new contract in October 2007,^[1] but resigned the following day.^[2] On 1 November 2007 he was appointed as the new manager of Gillingham.^[3]

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Mark Stimson career stats at Soccerbase
• Mark Stimson career stats at Soccerbase

v • d • e Grays Athletic F.C. – Managers F. Saxton and J. Saxton (?–2000) • Edwards (2000–2003) • Stimson (2003–06) • Gray (2006) • Woodward (2006) • King (2006–07) • Edinburgh (2007–08) • Woodward (2008–)

v • d • e Stevenage Borough F.C. – Managers Fairclough (1990–98) • Hill (1998–2000) • Wignall (2000) • Fairclough (2000–02) • Turner (2002) • Dreyer (2002–03) • Westley (2003–06) • Stimson (2006–07) • Taylor (2007–08) • Westley (2008–)

v • d • e Gillingham F.C. – Managers Groombridge (1896–1906) • Smith (1906–08) • Groombridge (1908–19) • Collins (1919–20) • McMillan (1920–23) • Curtis (1923–26) • Hoskins (1926–29) • Hendrie (1929–31) • Maven (1932–37) • Ure (1937–38) • Harvey (1938–39) • Clark (1939–58) • Barratt (1958–62) • Cox (1962–65) • Hayward (1965–71) • Nelson (1971–74) • Ashurst (1974–75) • Summers (1975–81) • Peacock (1981–87) • Paul Taylor (1987–88) • Burkinshaw (1988–89) • Richardson (1989–92) • Roeder (1992–93) • Flanagan (1993–95) • Smillie (1995) • Pulis (1995–99) • Peter Taylor (1999–2000) • Hessenthaler (2000–04) • Gorman (2004) • Ternent (2004–05) • Cooper (2005) • Jepson (2005–07) • Docherty (2007) • Onuora (2007) • Stimson (2007–)

v • d • e Gillingham F.C. – current squad 5 King • 7 Crofts • 8 Bentley • 9 Mulligan • 10 Facey • 11 Southall • 12 Royce • 13 Kiely • 14 Brown • 16 Sodje • 17 Pugh • 19 Clohessy • 20 Jackson • 21 Cumbers • 28 Oli • 29 Howard • 32 Thurgood • 35 Nutter • 36 Miller • 37 Richards • 38 Fuller • 39 Lewis • tbc Julian • Manager: Stimson