- John Schofield (footballer)
Football player infobox
playername = John Schofield
fullname = John David Schofield
nickname =
dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1965|5|16|df=yes
cityofbirth =Barnsley
countryofbirth =England
height =
currentclub = Walsall "(Assistant Manager)"
clubnumber =
position =Midfielder
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years =
1987-1988
1988-1994
1994-1997
1997-1999
1999-2000
2000-2001
clubs = Woolley Miners Welfare
Shepshed Charterhouse
Matlock Town
Gainsborough Trinity
Lincoln City
Doncaster Rovers
Mansfield Town
Hull City
Lincoln City
caps(goals) =
unknown
231 (11)
110 (12)
086 0(0)
025 0(0)
019 0(0)
manageryears = 2006-2008
2007-2008
2008-
managerclubs = Lincoln City
Scunthorpe United (Coach)
Walsall ("Assistant Manager")John David Schofield (born
16 May 1965 inBarnsley ) is an English football manager and former player. He was manager of Lincoln City between May 2006 and October 2007 and is currently Assistant Manager of Walsall.Playing career
A combative midfield player, John Schofield began his career in the non-league ranks, combining this with his job as an apprentice-trained motor mechanic. As a teenager, he had spent a season with Huddersfield Town's reserve side before joining the then
Northern Counties East League side Woolley Miners Welfare who were based in the village ofWoolley Colliery .He then moved up the non-league pyramid, joining first Shepshed Charterhouse and then Matlock Town. In March 1988 he joined Gainsborough Trinity.
The then Lincoln City manager Colin Murphy soon spotted his talents and a fee of £10,000 was enough to secure his services. Schofield quickly established himself in the Lincoln team and would go on to make 231 league appearances, scoring 11 times, in his first spell at the club and later be voted as number 47 in Lincoln's list of 100 league legends.
Despite a successful 1993/94 season with Lincoln when he was both club captain and supporters' `Player of the Season', the 1994/95 season found Schofield out of favour with the newly installed Lincoln manager
Sam Ellis and in November 1994 moved on to join Doncaster Rovers.He spent three seasons with Doncaster before departing to Mansfield Town and then Hull City.
Schofield returned to Lincoln City in June 2000 to take up the post of Head of Youth Development. [cite web
url=http://www.redimps.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10440~60948,00.html
title=Schofield back with City
publisher=Lincoln City F.C. Official Web-site
date=6 June ,2000
accessdate=2008-06-17] With Lincoln beginning to struggle financially, Schofield was also called upon as a player, making a further 19 league appearances before he finally wound his playing career down.Management career
He is a UEFA 'A' licence holder, Schofield made impressive progress with Lincoln's youth set-up with a number of promising players, such as
Lee Frecklington , either making the first team squad or being sold to higher level clubs such as Jack Hobbs who was sold to Liverpool andScott Loach who moved on to Watford.Schofield's good work was rewarded with an increasing role with the first team and he was appointed First Team Coach prior to the start of the 2005/06. The departure of
Keith Alexander as Lincoln's manager in the summer of 2006 saw him appointed as Head Coach withJohn Deehan appointed asDirector of Football .The 2006/07 season started extremely promisingly for Lincoln with a new found commitment to attacking passing football which saw them top the table in October 2006 and be amongst the leading scorers in the league. However, Lincoln's form fell away in 2007 and rather than pushing for automatic promotion they were, for the fifth season running, forced to settle for a place in the play-offs where they were soundly beaten by Bristol Rovers. The initial promising start however was rewarded when he signed a new two-year deal with the club in April 2006.cite news
title = Coach Schofield signs Imps deal
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/lincoln_city/4907328.stm
publisher = BBC Sport
date =2006-04-13
accessdate = 2007-08-07] while in June 2006 this was extended to three years and his title upgraded to Manager.cite news
title = Schofield rewarded with new deal
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/lincoln_city/6933399.stm
publisher = BBC Sport
date =2007-08-06
accessdate = 2007-08-06]The poor form exhibited by Lincoln in the second-half of the 2006/07 season has, sadly, been continued in the 2007/08 season and this was met with increasing unease by the Lincoln supporters with a feeling that Schofield has neglected the defence of the squad in favour of his attacking strategy. Schofield was sacked by Lincoln on
15 October 2007 .cite news
title = Lincoln City sack boss Schofield
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/lincoln_city/7045372.stm
publisher = BBC Sport
date =2007-10-15
accessdate = 2007-10-15] In February 2008 he began coaching at Scunthorpe United [cite web
url=http://www.scunthorpe-united.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/0,,10442~1244539,00.html
title=Schofield coaching at United
publisher=Scunthorpe United F.C. Official Web-site
date=18 February ,2008
accessdate=2008-06-17] where he helped carried out extra training sessions for players not involved in the first team before departing at the end of the season. [cite web
url=http://www.scunthorpe-united.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/0,,10442~1320681,00.html
title=Schofield exits Glanford Park
publisher=Scunthorpe United F.C. Official Web-site
date=29 May ,2008
accessdate=2008-06-17] In June 2008 he was appointed first-team coach at Walsall. [cite web
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/walsall/7459028.stm
title=Schofield is new Saddlers coach
publisher=BBC Sport
date=17 June ,2008
accessdate=2008-06-17]Managerial stats
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