Longest managerless club record

[Made-in-Jericho]

One for the stattos out there. What’s the longest time a club has been without a manager? Is this a record we could break?

 

[Lincoln.yellow1]

We probably already hold the record..........
Some say we haven’t had a manager since Appleton left us in the summer 8 months ago....!

 

[Oldham]

One for the stattos out there. What’s the longest time a club has been without a manager? Is this a record we could break?

David Pleat was caretaker of Spuds from September 21 2003 to June 3 2004: eight months and two weeks.
Wiki admittedly so may not be the record.

 

[Made-in-Jericho]

Thanks, I think we’re the new spuds now.

 

[Oldham]

Thanks, I think we’re the new spuds now.

Well at least we know where Wembley is, not many teams at our level have been as much as us ?

 

[WokinghamYellow]

Chelsea have had loads of caretaker managers for huge parts of the season. Benitez/grant/hiddink

 

[yellowbow]

Chelsea have had loads of caretaker managers for huge parts of the season. Benitez/grant/hiddink

True but they were all established managers in their own right, not someone who’s spent their entire career no higher than as assistant.

 

[Ian]

There is of course an Oxford link to the answer.

Malcolm Crosby was caretaker manager of Sunderland for 4 months in 1991 - after Denis Smith had been sacked.

The longest caretaker-manager stint

 

[mariokempes]

Don't bookmakers pay out on the caretaker manager if he does 10 matches ?

 

[Sarge]

Don't bookmakers pay out on the caretaker manager if he does 10 matches ?

I think it's ten games, but not 100% on that?

 

[makv]

Don't bookmakers pay out on the caretaker manager if he does 10 matches ?

Yes

 

[Victor1986]

Can anyone tell us if there has ever been a scenario where a sacked manager has been back in a job before a replacement was found for him?

 

[Berliner]

Can anyone tell us if there has ever been a scenario where a sacked manager has been back in a job before a replacement was found for him?

Wasn't Carvalhal appointed pretty sharpish at Swansea after being booted at Sheff Wed?

 

[Topper Haines]

McDermott's odds shortened a lot this morning.

 

[Mark Kelly's Market Stall]

For a more recent example: Fulham sacked Kit Symons on 8 November 2015 - despite promising a swift appointment and talking up the amount of interest from big names, took until 27 December for them to appoint Slavisa Jokanovic after several almost appointments and a lot of concern at owners generally not having a clue what they were doing. Maybe they did, or maybe they got lucky - either way, now widely viewed as a masterful appointment.

 

[Victor1986]

You're right Berliner - obviously becoming more common!

 

[The Deadman]

We have a history of not being rapid with our appointments:

Caretaker manager runs at OUFC:
6 November 1958 - 1 January 1959 - Committee
25 October 1999 - 2 February 2000 - Mickey Lewis
26 January 2014 - 22 March 2014 - Mickey Lewis
22 January 2018 - present - Derek Fazackerly