John Ward (footballer)

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John Ward
Personal information
Full name	John Patrick Ward
Date of birth	7 April 1951 (1951-04-07) (age 58)
Place of birth	Lincoln, England
Playing position	Striker
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1970–1979 1972 1979–1981 1981–1982 1982	Lincoln City → Workington (loan) Watford Grimsby Town Lincoln City	240 (91) 011 0(3) 027 0(6) 003 0(0) 001 0(0)
Teams managed
1991–1993 1993–1996 1997–1998 2000–2001 2003–2007 2007–2008	York City Bristol Rovers Bristol City Wolverhampton Wanderers (caretaker) Cheltenham Town Carlisle United
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

John Patrick Ward (born 7 April 1951) is an English former footballer and manager. He is without a club after leaving Carlisle United.

Contents 1 Career 2 Managerial statistics 3 Honours 3.1 As a Manager 3.1.1 Promotions 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Career

As a player, Ward spent the bulk of his career as a forward at Lincoln City where he scored more than 100 goals between 1970 and 1979. He also had spells at Watford, Grimsby and Workington.

Following his retirement from playing, Ward was assistant manager to Graham Taylor at Watford from 1982 and then followed Taylor to Aston Villa in 1987. After Taylor became England manager in 1990, Ward remained at Villa for a further year and a half under Jozef Venglos and then Ron Atkinson. In late 1991, Ward heard that York City, then a struggling fourth division club, had just sacked their manager. He happened to mention to his former boss Taylor in a phone call that he felt York would be a good club to start his own managerial career at, and Taylor in turn contacted the York City board (who had been considering appointing Billy McEwan as manager) and recommended that they hire Ward, which they did. After his appointment, Ward turned York around and in the 1992-93 season and had them challenging for automatic promotion for much of the season. He left before the season ended, and promotion via the play-offs was achieved by his successor, Alan Little.

He later managed both Bristol clubs, Bristol Rovers and Bristol City, and was assistant to Adrian Heath at Burnley.

In 1998 Ward became assistant manager to Colin Lee at Wolverhampton Wanderers. After Lee's departure, he had a brief spell as caretaker manager before reverting to assistant under Dave Jones. He helped the club win promotion to the Premier League in 2003 but left the club at the end of the season. Ward was appointed Cheltenham Town manager in November 2003 and in 2006 guided the club to promotion into League One. After keeping the Robins in League One the following season, he moved to Carlisle United in October 2007.^[1] Ward guided the club to a play-off position in his first season in charge, despite this however, a poor start to the 2008–09 campaign saw him under heavy pressure to resign.^[2] He was later given the backing of the Carlisle board.^[3] However, he eventually parted company with the club by mutual consent on 3 November.^[4] Ward applied for the vacant Swindon Town managerial role in November after Maurice Malpas left the club by mutual consent.^[5] He held preliminary talks with Port Vale over their managerial vacancy in May 2009.^[6]

[edit] Managerial statistics

As of 3 November 2008.^[7]

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
York City		1 October 1991	1 March 1993	70	22	24	24	31.42
Bristol Rovers		1 August 1993	10 May 1996	155	65	48	42	41.93
Bristol City		27 March 1997	28 October 1998	84	38	27	19	45.23
Wolverhampton Wanderers		18 December 2000	3 January 2001	4	3	1	0	75.00
Cheltenham Town		6 November 2003	2 October 2007	207	76	77	54	36.71
Carlisle United		2 October 2007	3 November 2008	61	26	23	12	42.62

[edit] Honours

[edit] As a Manager

[edit] Promotions

• 1992–93: Division 3 Playoff Winner (promotion to Division 2) - York City(*Ward was in charge of the first 30 league games of York's promotion in 1992-93)
• 1997–98: Division 2 Runner Up (promotion to Division 1) - Bristol City
• 2005–06: League Two Playoff Winner (promotion to League One) - Cheltenham Town

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• John Ward's LMA Profile
• Unofficial John Ward Profile at The Forgotten Imp

v • d • e York City F.C. – Managers Collier (1928–30) · Sherrington (1930–33) · Collier (1933–37) · Mitchell (1937–50) · Duckworth (1950–52) · Spencer (1952–53) · McCormick (1953–54) · Bartram (1956–60) · Lockie (1960–67) · Shaw (1967–68) · Johnston (1968–75) · McGuinness (1975–77) · Wright (1977–80) · Lyons (1980–81) · Randall (1981–82) · Swallow (1982) · Smith (1982–87) · Saxton (1987–88) · Swallow (1988) · Bird (1988–91) · Ward (1991–93) · Little (1993–99) · Thompson (1999–2000) · Dolan (2000–03) · Brass (2003–04) · Busby (2004–05) · McEwan (2005–07) · Walker (2007–08) · Redfearn (2008) · Foyle (2008–)

v • d • e Bristol Rovers F.C. – Managers Homer (1899–1920) · Hall (1920–21) · Wilson (1921–26) · Palmer (1926–29) · McLean (1929–30) · Prince-Cox (1930–36) · Smith (1936–37) · Fletcher (1938–50) · Tann (1950–68) · Ford (1968–69) · Dodgin (1969–72) · Megson (1972–77) · Campbell (1977–79) · Jarman (1979–80) · Cooper (1980–81) · Gingell (1981) · Gould (1981–83) · Williams (1983–85) · Gould (1985–87) · Francis (1987–91) · Dobson (1991) · Rofe (1991–92) · Allison (1992–93) · Ward (1993–96) · Holloway (1996–2001) · Francis (2001) · Thompson (2001–02) · Graydon (2002–04) · Atkins (2004–05) · Trollope (2005–)

v • d • e Bristol City F.C. – Managers Hollis (1897–99) · Campbell (1899–1901) · Hollis (1901–05) · Thickett (1905–10) · Bacon (1910–11) · Hollis (1911–13) · Hedley (1913–15) · Hamilton (1915–19) · Palmer (1919–21) · Raisbeck (1921–29) · Bradshaw (1929–32) · Hewison (1932–49) · Wright (1949–50) · Beasley (1950–58) · Doherty (1958–60) · Ford (1960–67) · Dicks (1967–80) · Houghton (1980–82) · Hodgson (1982) · Cooper (1982–88) · Jordan (1988–90) · Lumsden (1990–92) · Smith (1992–93) · Osman (1993–94) · Jordan (1994–97) · Sweeney (1997) · Ward (1997–98) · Lennartsson (1998–99) · Pulis (1999–2000) · Fawthrop & Burnside (2000) · Rosenior (2000) · Wilson (2000–04) · Tinnion (2004–05) · Millen (2005) · Johnson (2005–)

v • d • e Cheltenham Town F.C. – Managers Brain (1945–1948) · Dean (1948–1950) · Summerbee (1950–1952) · Raeside (1952–1953) · Anderson (1953–1958) · Lewin (1958–1960) · Donnelly (1960–1961) · Cavanagh (1961) · Anderson (1961–1965) · Fletcher (1965–1966) · Etheridge (1966–1973) · Penman (1973–1974) · Allen (1974–1979) · Paine (1979) · Grundy (1979–1982) · Wood (1982–1983) · Murphy (1983–1988) · Barron (1988–1989) · Murphy (1990) · Lewis (1990) · Robertson (1991–1992) · Parsons (1992–1995) · Robinson (1995–1997) · Cotterill (1997–2002) · Allner (2002–03) · Gould (2003) · Ward (2003–07) · Downing (2007–08) · Allen (2008–)

v • d • e Carlisle United F.C. – Managers Kirkbride (1904–05s) · McCumiskey (1905–06s) · Houston (1906–08s) · Stansfield (1908–10) · Houston (1910–12) · Graham (1912–13) · Bistow (1913–30) · Hampson (1930–33) · Clarke (1933–35) · Kelly (1935–36) · Westgarth (1936–38) · Taylor (1938–40) · Harkness (1940–45) · Clarke (1945–46s) · Broadis (1946–49) · Shankly (1949–51) · Emery (1951–58) · Beattie (1958–60) · Powell (1960–63) · Ashman (1963–67) · T. Ward (1967–68) · Stokoe (1968–70) · MacFarlane (1970–72) · Ashhman (1972–75) · Young (1975–76) · Moncur (1976–80) · Harvey (1980) · Stokoe (1980–85) · Robson (1985) · Stokoe (1985–86) · Gregg (1986–87) · Middlemass (1987–91) · McCaffrey (1991–92) · McCreery (1992–93) · Wadsworth (1993–96d) · Day (1996–97) · Knighton (1997–98) · Pearson (1998–99) · Mincher (1999) · Wilkinson (1999–2000) · Atkins (2000–2001) · Collins (2001–2002) · Barr (2002c) · Collins (2002–03) · Simpson (2003–06) · McDonald (2006–07) · Abbott (2007c) · J. Ward (2007–08) · Abbott (2008–) (c) caretaker (d) director of coaching (s) secretary-manager

Persondata
NAME	Ward, John Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ward, John
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Football (soccer) player, coach & manager
DATE OF BIRTH	7 April 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH