Steve Cotterill

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Personal information
Steve Cotterill
Full name	Stephen John Cotterill
Date of birth	July 20, 1964 (1964-07-20) (age 43)
Place of birth	Cheltenham, England
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position	Striker
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1988-1989 1989-1993 1992 1993-1996	Burton Albion Wimbledon → Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) Bournemouth	0? 0(?) 17 0(6) 11 0(4) 45 (15)
Teams managed
1995-1996 1997-2002 2002 2004-2007	Sligo Rovers Cheltenham Town Stoke City Burnley
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Stephen John Cotterill, born July 20, 1964 is an English former footballer and manager. He was last employed at Burnley, where he was manager from June 2004 to November 2007. He also had spells at Sligo Rovers, Cheltenham Town and Stoke City.

1 Playing career
2 Management
3 Manager honours
4 Managerial statistics
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Playing career

Cotterill started his playing career in the non-leagues as a forward who could play centrally or in wide positions, playing non-professionally at clubs like Cheltenham Town, Alvechurch and Burton Albion. He then signed his first professional deal at Wimbledon after a £30,000 deal was done with Burton. It was a giant step up for Cotterill, going from the non-Leagues to the Premiership. He only made 25 appearances in 4 years at Wimbledon and was sent out on loan to Brighton where he recaptured his form, this led to further games at the Dons before finally moving on again to Bournemouth.

Cotterill signed for Bournemouth in the summer of 1993 for the fee of £80,000. In 3 years at Bournemouth he got his career back in good shape scoring 15 goals in 46 league starts for the club. While at the club he picked up 3 player of the season awards but had to finish his career in 1995 after a bad knee injury from which he never fully recovered.

[edit] Management

[edit] Sligo Rovers

Before Lawrie Sanchez left Sligo Rovers in 1995, he recommended that Sligo Rovers appoint Cotterill. He led the club to third place in the Premier Division of the Football League of Ireland and his side also reached the League Cup final, where they lost on penalties to Shelbourne.

[edit] Cheltenham Town

Cotterill joined Cheltenham when they were still a non-league club and he built up a successful side which won promotion from the Southern Football League Premier Division to the Football Conference in only his first full year at the club. He won the FA Trophy in 1998, beating Southport 1-0 in the final, and Cheltenham finished 2nd in the Conference the same year, their first season in that league. Cheltenham won the Conference and with it promotion to the Football League the following year. His first two seasons in the Third Division saw them finish in the top half. In 2001-02,the club reached the fifth round of the FA Cup for the first time in its history, ended only by a 1-0 away defeat to West Bromwich Albion and including the defeat of Cotterill's future club Burnley. Cotterill took Cheltenham into the Second Division that season, following a play-off victory over Rushden & Diamonds at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. He was awarded his UEFA Pro License in 2002, and was being touted as one of the best coaches in the league.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Stoke City

Cotterill left Cheltenham to join Stoke City in the summer of 2002. He only managed 13 games for the club before being asked to join Sunderland as their assistant manager. He received widespread criticism for his decision to leave Stoke so soon after taking the job and the manner of his departure. As Howard Wilkinson's assistant, they were tasked with keeping Sunderland in the Premiership. However, Wilkinson was sacked quickly, and Cotterill left the club in the summer of 2003 after taking full charge of the side.

[edit] Burnley

In the summer of 2004 a decision by Burnley not to renew the contract of their manager, Stan Ternent, led to Cotterill being named as the new head coach of the club. In his first season at the club they reached the third round of the Carling Cup, beating Aston Villa 3-1 on the way. They also reached the fifth round of the FA Cup beating Premiership side Liverpool 1-0. After losing striker and captain Robbie Blake and young midfielder Richard Chaplow they finished 13th in the Championship. In 2005-06 he led Burnley to a 17th placed finish.

The 2006-07 season began well, with a series of wins. Cotterill also won the Championship Manager of the Month for October. However Burnley were dealt a blow when leading goalscorer Andy Gray was sidelined until February in November. Ade Akinbiyi was re-signed in the January transfer window, but the striker was in poor form and failed to make an impact.

Cotterill left the club on 8 November 2007 by mutual consent. The club lay 15th, after a run of one win in ten league games.^[1]

[edit] Manager honours

FA Trophy 1998
Football Conference 1999; runner up 1998
Nationwide League Division 3 play-off 2002

[edit] Managerial statistics

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	G	W	L	D	Win %
Cheltenham Town		February 1, 1997	May 27, 2002	255	118	67	70	46.27
Stoke City		May 27, 2002	October 10, 2002	13	3	5	5	23.07
Burnley		June 3, 2004	November 8, 2007	144	45	56	43	31.35

[edit] References

^ Burnley manager Cotterill departs

[edit] External links

Preceded by Lawrie Sanchez	Sligo Rovers F.C. Manager 1995–1996	Succeeded by Jimmy Mullen

v • d • e Cheltenham Town F.C. – Managers

Robertson (1991–1992) • Parsons (1992–1995) • Robinson (1995–1997) • Cotterill (1997–2002) • Allner (2002–03) • Gould (2003) • Ward (2003–07) • Downing (2007–)

v • d • e

Stoke City F.C. – Managers

Slaney (1874–83) • Cox (1883–84) • Lockett (1884–90) • Bradshaw (1890–92) • Reeves (1892–95) • Rowley (1895–97) • Austerberry (1897–1908) • Barker (1908–14) • Hodge (1914–15) • Schofield (1915–19) • Shallcross (1919–23) • Rutherford (1923) • Mather (1923–35) • McGrory (1935–52) • Taylor (1952–60) • Waddington (1960–77) • Eastham (1977–78) • A'Court (1978) • Durban (1978–81) • Barker (1981–83) • Asprey (1984–85) • Mills (1985–89) • Lacey (1989) • Ball (1989–91) • Macari (1991–93) • Jordan (1993–94) • Macari (1994–97) • Bates (1997–98) • Kamara (1998) • Durban (1998) • Little (1998–99) • Megson (1999) • Thordarson (1999–2002) • Cotterill (2002) • Kevan (2002) • Pulis (2002–05) • Boskamp (2005–06) • Pulis (2006–)

v • d • e

Burnley F.C. – Managers

Sutcliffe (1893–96) • Bradshaw (1896–99) • Mangnall (1899–1903) • Whittaker (1903–10) • Wadge (1910–11) • Haworth (1911–25) • Pickles (1925–32) • Bromilow (1932–35) • Boland (1935–39) • Britton (1945–48) • Hill (1948–54) • Brown (1954–57) • Dougall (1957–58) • Potts (1958–70) • Adamson (1970–76) • Brown (1976–77) • Potts (1977–79) • Miller (1979–83) • Casper (1983) • Bond (1983–84) • Benson (1984–85) • Buchan (1985) • Cavanagh (1985–86) • Miller (1986–89) • Casper (1989–91) • Mullen (1991–96) • Middlemass (1996) • Heath (1996–97) • Waddle (1997–98) • Ternent (1998–04) • Cotterill (2004–07) • Davis (2007) • Coyle (2007–)

Persondata
NAME	Steve Cotterill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Football Manager
DATE OF BIRTH	July 20, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cheltenham, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH