Steve Thompson (footballer, born 1963)

Steve Thompson
Personal information
Full name Steven John Thompson
Date of birth (1963-01-12) 12 January 1963
Place of birth Plymouth, England
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Woking (Assistant Manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1981–1983 Bristol City 12 (1)
1983 Torquay United 1 (0)
1983 Falmouth Town 20 (1)
1983–1987 Saltash United
1987–1992 Slough Town 146 (45)
1992–1996 Wycombe Wanderers 162 (22)
1996–1998 Woking 84 (16)
1998–2008 Yeovil Town 69 (7)
2009 Bridgwater Town
2009 Shaftesbury Town
National team
England Semi-Pro 1 (0)
Teams managed
1999–2000 Yeovil Town
2000–2005 Yeovil Town (Assistant Manager)
2005–2006 Yeovil Town
2006–2009 Yeovil Town (Assistant Manager)
2009 Yeovil Town (caretaker)
2009–2010 Truro City
2011– Woking (Assistant Manager)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Steven John Thompson (born 12 January 1963 in Plymouth) is an English football manager and former player currently assistant manager at Conference National side Woking. He played for England at semi-professional level and also played for the RAF and Combined Services sides.

Career

Thompson joined the Royal Air Force from school and played for Saltash United in the Western League. He progressed to be a Fitness Instructor in the RAF, but continued his football career, joining Bristol City in July 1981 and making his League debut the following season.

He joined Torquay United in February 1983 on a free transfer, but made just one appearance, as a substitute, before returning to the Western League with Falmouth Town and then rejoining Saltash United. In 1987 he was on the verge of joining Yeovil Town, but the RAF posted him to West London and he joined Slough Town instead.

He joined Martin O'Neill’s Wycombe Wanderers in February 1992 for a fee of £15,000 and was part of the Conference and FA Trophy double-winning side. The following season, Wycombe's first as Football League side, Thompson played in the victorious Division Three Play-off final at Wembley in 1994. He moved to Woking in August 1996, winning a second FA Trophy winners medal against Dagenham and Redbridge in 1997 and scored the last minute equaliser in Woking's surprise 1–1 draw with Premiership side Coventry City in the FA Cup.

Together with Kevan Brown, Thompson joined Yeovil Town in March 1998 for a combined fee of £7,500,[1] playing in the side while also acting as the club's fitness coach and working part-time in the postal service. When Yeovil manager Colin Lippiatt resigned at the end of September 1999, Thompson took over, initially as caretaker, but was awarded the job permanently on 10 November 1999.

In March 2000, David Webb took over as manager, with Thompson becoming player-assistant manager. He remained as assistant manager after Webb left, working under Colin Addison and Gary Johnson. Johnson left to manage Bristol City in September 2005 and Thompson was appointed as manager for a second time the following month.

In May 2006, Thompson reverted to his first team coaching role at Yeovil[2] and was replaced as manager by Russell Slade, and enjoyed a successful spell as assistant to Slade, the highlight of which was reaching the League 1 Play-off Final at Wembley Stadium in 2007.

Since leaving the first team at Yeovil Thompson took up positions there as coach, assistant manager and eventually manager. However during his time on the coaching staff Thompson appeared in some friendlies and reserve team games. Despite being 45 years old and believed to be retired from first team football, Thompson was selected as a substitute on 12 August 2008 for the first team's League Cup win over Charlton due to a lack of players, but he never made it onto the pitch.

Thompson returned yet again to the caretaker role for just 1 game after the resignation of Russell Slade on 16 February 2009.[3] Two days later he was released from the club after nearly 11 years. He was replaced by new player-manager Terry Skiverton.[4]

After leaving Yeovil he started playing again at the age of 46 on non-contract basis for Bridgwater Town and also had a spell at Shaftesbury Town.

On 29 December 2009 Thompson was appointed manager of Southern Football League Premier Division team Truro City.[5] On 29 March 2010 Thomson left the club by 'mutual consent' after only winning 5 out of his 18 games in charge and any chance of reaching the play-off's unrealistic[6]

Following the appointment of Garry Hill as manager of Woking in January 2011, Thompson was appointed as assistant manager at the Conference South side. He has helped the team win the Conference South the club finishing the season with over 100 points in total.

Managerial stats

As of 20 February 2010

Team Nat From To Record
GWDLWin %
Yeovil Town England October 1999 March 2000 291351144.83
Yeovil Town (Caretaker) England 1 October 2000 8 October 2000 211050.00
Yeovil Town England September 2005 May 2006 411491834.15
Yeovil Town (Caretaker) England 16 February 2009 18 February 2009 10010.00
Truro City England 29 December 2009 29 March 2010 1857627.77

References

  1. ↑ Brown, Tom (17 September 2002). "Woking FC". Club Background. www.ciderspace.co.uk. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  2. ↑ BBC – Somerset – Sport – Manager change at Yeovil Town
  3. ↑ BBC Sport – Yeovil split with manager Slade
  4. ↑ BBC Sport – Skiverton appointed Yeovil boss
  5. ↑ "Thompson named new Truro City boss". thisiscornwall.co.uk. 29 December 2009.
  6. ↑ "Thompson leaves City after 18 games as manager". 29 March 2010.

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