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This is a list of Swansea City A.F.C. managers and their records from 1912, when the club was founded and their first professional manager appointed, to the present day.
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The first manager to be appointed to Swansea Town was Walter Whittaker. In the club's first season, Whittaker led Swansea to their first Welsh Cup win. Haydn Green is Swansea's longest serving manager, having held the position for 8 years, 123 days spanning World War II. Statistically, Roberto Martínez is Swansea's most successful manager with a 50% winning percentage in all competitive games. As a player-manager, John Toshack guided Swansea City to three promotions in four years, from the Fourth Division to the First Division. Swansea finished the 1981–81 season in sixth place – their highest ever league position. There have been three managers hired on a 'permanent' basis (Kevin Cullis, Jimmy Rimmer and Micky Adams) who had winless records during their brief stints at Swansea that spanned less than four weeks between all three of them, in two separate periods of 1996 and 1997.
This list of all managers includes performance records and honours.
P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost
Picture | Name | Nationality | From | To | Length | P | W | D | L | Win% | Honours | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Walter Whittaker | ![]() | 1 August 1912 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50.00 | 1 Welsh Cup | [1] | |||
William Bartlett | ![]() | 1 August 1914 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33.33 | [2] | ||||
Joe Bradshaw | ![]() | 1 August 1919 | 272 | 128 | 73 | 71 | 47.06 | 1 Third Division South Championship | [3] | |||
Jimmy Thomson | ![]() | 4 April 1927 | 176 | 59 | 43 | 74 | 33.52 | [4] | ||||
Neil Harris | ![]() | 1 July 1934 | 218 | 71 | 49 | 98 | 32.57 | [5] | ||||
Haydn Green | ![]() | 1 May 1939 | 50 | 13 | 9 | 28 | 26.00 | [6] | ||||
Billy McCandless | ![]() | 1 November 1948 | 294 | 113 | 61 | 120 | 38.44 | 1 Third Division South Championship, 1 Welsh Cup | [7] | |||
Ronnie Burgess | ![]() | 1 July 1955 | 129 | 50 | 22 | 57 | 38.76 | [8] | ||||
Trevor Morris | ![]() | 1 August 1958 | 327 | 112 | 77 | 138 | 34.25 | 1 Welsh Cup | [9] | |||
Glyn Davies | ![]() | 1 June 1965 | 58 | 16 | 15 | 27 | 27.59 | 1 Welsh Cup | [10] | |||
Billy Lucas | ![]() | 1 February 1967 | 97 | 34 | 24 | 39 | 35.05 | [11] | ||||
Roy Bentley | ![]() | 1 August 1969 | 153 | 56 | 45 | 52 | 36.60 | 1 Fourth Division promotion | [12] | |||
Harry Gregg | ![]() | 1 November 1972 | 101 | 34 | 23 | 44 | 33.66 | [13] | ||||
Harry Griffiths | ![]() | 1 January 1975 | 127 | 54 | 28 | 45 | 42.52 | [14] | ||||
22 November 1977 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 44.44 | [14] | ||||||
![]() | John Toshack[nb 1] | ![]() | 1 February 1978 | 251 | 104 | 59 | 88 | 41.43 | 1 Fourth Division promotion, 1 Third Division promotion, 1 Second Division promotion, 3 Welsh Cups | [15] | ||
Doug Livermore[nb 2] | ![]() | 29 October 1983 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 11.11 | [16] | ||||
![]() | John Toshack[nb 1] | ![]() | 21 December 1983 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 18.18 | [15] | |||
Les Chappell[nb 2] | ![]() | 4 March 1984 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 25.00 | |||||
Colin Appleton | ![]() | 16 May 1984 | 22 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 18.18 | [17] | ||||
Les Chappell[nb 2] | ![]() | 6 December 1984 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | [18] | ||||
John Bond | ![]() | 16 December 1984 | 54 | 15 | 11 | 28 | 27.78 | [19] | ||||
Tommy Hutchison[nb 1] | ![]() | 21 December 1985 | 23 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 26.09 | [20] | ||||
![]() | Terry Yorath[nb 1] | ![]() | 12 July 1986 | 139 | 58 | 35 | 46 | 41.73 | 1 Fourth Division play-off winner, 1 Welsh Cup | [21] | ||
Ian Evans | ![]() | 27 February 1989 | 58 | 15 | 19 | 24 | 25.86 | [22] | ||||
![]() | Terry Yorath | ![]() | 15 March 1990 | 51 | 15 | 10 | 26 | 29.41 | [21] | |||
Frank Burrows | ![]() | 21 March 1991 | 231 | 85 | 65 | 81 | 36.80 | 1 Welsh Cup, 1 Football League Trophy | [23] | |||
Bobby Smith | ![]() | 1 August 1995 | 49 | 12 | 14 | 23 | 24.49 | [24] | ||||
Kevin Cullis | ![]() | 8 February 1996 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | [25] | ||||
Jimmy Rimmer | ![]() | 14 February 1996 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | [26] | ||||
![]() | Jan Mølby[nb 1] | ![]() | 22 February 1996 | 80 | 31 | 16 | 33 | 38.75 | [27] | |||
Micky Adams[nb 1] | ![]() | 9 October 1997 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | [28] | ||||
Alan Cork | ![]() | 22 October 1997 | 35 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 28.57 | [29] | ||||
John Hollins | ![]() | 1 July 1998 | 170 | 63 | 47 | 60 | 37.06 | 1 Third Division Championship | [30] | |||
Colin Addison | ![]() | 13 September 2001 | 35 | 11 | 8 | 16 | 31.43 | [31] | ||||
Roger Freestone[nb 3] | ![]() | 8 March 2002 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12.50 | [32] | ||||
Nick Cusack[nb 3] | ![]() | 8 March 2002 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 25.00 | [33] | ||||
Brian Flynn | ![]() | 19 September 2002 | 82 | 28 | 22 | 32 | 34.15 | [34] | ||||
Alan Curtis[nb 2] | ![]() | 18 March 2004 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 25.00 | [35] | ||||
![]() | Kenny Jackett | ![]() | 5 April 2004 | 156 | 69 | 40 | 47 | 44.23 | 1 League Two promotion, 1 Football League Trophy | [36] | ||
![]() | Kevin Nugent[nb 2] | ![]() | 15 February 2007 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.00 | [37] | |||
![]() | Roberto Martínez | ![]() | 24 February 2007 | 126 | 63 | 37 | 26 | 50.00 | 1 League One Championship | [38] | ||
![]() | Paulo Sousa | ![]() | 22 June 2009 | 49 | 18 | 18 | 13 | 36.73 | [39] | |||
![]() | Brendan Rodgers | ![]() | 16 July 2010 | 96 | 43 | 20 | 33 | 44.79 | 1 Championship play-off winner | [40] | ||
![]() | Michael Laudrup | ![]() | 17 June 2012 | 84 | 29 | 24 | 31 | 34.52 | 1 Football League Cup | [41] | ||
![]() | Garry Monk | ![]() | 4 February 2014 | 77 | 28 | 17 | 32 | 36.36 | [42] | |||
Alan Curtis[nb 2] | ![]() | 9 December 2015 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 25.00 | [43] | ||||
Francesco Guidolin | ![]() | 18 January 2016 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 36.00 | [44] | ||||
![]() | Bob Bradley | ![]() | 3 October 2016 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 18.18 | [45] | |||
Alan Curtis[nb 2] | ![]() | 27 December 2016 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50.00 | [46] | ||||
![]() | Paul Clement | ![]() | 3 January 2017 | 37 | 12 | 5 | 20 | 32.43 | [47] | |||
![]() | Leon Britton[nb 2] | ![]() | 21 December 2017 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | [48] | |||
Carlos Carvalhal | ![]() | 28 December 2017 | 24 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 33.33 | [49] | ||||
![]() | Graham Potter | ![]() | 11 June 2018 | 51 | 21 | 11 | 19 | 41.18 | [50] | |||
![]() | Steve Cooper | ![]() | 13 June 2019 | 105 | 47 | 28 | 30 | 44.76 | [51] | |||
![]() | Russell Martin | ![]() | 1 August 2021 | 99 | 36 | 26 | 37 | 36.36 | [52] | |||
![]() | Michael Duff | ![]() | 22 June 2023 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 28.57 | [53] | |||
Alan Sheehan[nb 2] | ![]() | 4 December 2023 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 42.86 | [54] | ||||
![]() | Luke Williams | ![]() | 5 January 2024 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 16.67 | [55] |
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