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Dave Hockaday Personal information Full name David Hockaday Date of birth 9 November 1957 Place of birth Sedgefield, England Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Playing position Winger / Right-back Club information Current club Forest Green Rovers (manager) Youth career Billingham Synthonia Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1975–1983 Blackpool 147 (24) 1983–1990 Swindon Town 245 (7) 1990–1993 Hull City 72 (2) 1993 → Stoke City (loan) 7 (0) 1993–1995 Shrewsbury Town 48 (0) 1995–???? Cirencester Town Total 519 (33) Teams managed 2009– Forest Green Rovers * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).David "Dave" Hockaday (born 9 November 1957) is an English former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He is currently first team manager at Conference National club Forest Green Rovers.
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Playing career
Born in Sedgefield, County Durham, he started his career as a youth player with Billingham Synthonia.
Blackpool
In June 1975, aged 17, he joined Blackpool, then playing in the Second Division. He made his first start for the Tangerines on 25 September 1976, in a 1-0 home loss to Chelsea. Aside from a League Cup second-round tie against Sheffield Wednesday, he sat out the entire 1977-78 campaign, but the following season he became a more regular first-team player as Blackpool slid down the leagues. He scored his first goal for the club in a 3-1 loss at Colchester United on 30 September 1978, and, later that season, scored both goals in Blackpool's 2-1 victory at Lincoln City.
Also on 30 September, this time in 1981, Hockaday was amongst the scorers in Blackpool's 7-1 rout of Halifax Town at Bloomfield Road.
In his final season in Lancashire, he made 40 league appearances and scored eight goals, but was unable to prevent Blackpool from finishing fourth from bottom and needing to seek re-election. In his eight seasons at Blackpool he made over 190 first-team appearances, scoring 27 goals.[1]
Swindon Town
In June 1983, he moved on a free transfer to fellow Fourth Division side Swindon Town. He was a solid, dependable right-back and was part of the team managed by Lou Macari that gained the Fourth Division championship in the 1985-86 season, following this with promotion to Division Two in 1986-87. In 1988-89 Swindon reached the Second Division play-offs but failed in their attempt to gain promotion to the top flight. In 1989-90 Swindon won the Second Division play-off final but Sunderland were promoted instead after the Swindon board admitted a series of financial irregularities. Swindon were initially demoted to the Third Division and replaced by Tranmere Rovers, the division's losing play-off finalists, but this decision was later reversed on appeal.
In September 1990, Hockaday moved to Hull City for a fee of £50,000 having made 308 appearances for Swindon, with 11 goals.
Hull City, Stoke City and Shrewsbury Town
At Hull City he saw relegation from the Second Division at the end of his first season. After three seasons, including a brief spell loan in 1993 to Stoke City (where he helped them to the Division Two championship), he moved to Shrewsbury Town. He was a member of the Shrewsbury team who won the Division Three championship at the end of his first season, before he dropped out of league football, moving to Cirencester Town in 1995.
In his Football League career, which spanned twenty years, he won three league titles and gained two further promotions via the play-offs and was only denied the chance to play in the top flight because of financial irregularities outside his control.
Coaching career
Cirencester Town
In 1995 he established the first football academy in the country at Cirencester. The Cirencester Football Academy was created in conjunction with the local Sixth Form College. The Academy team soon built up a nation-wide reputation by winning the National College Championship. Subsequently, his concept of a football academy has been adopted by most major clubs in England.
He was head-hunted for many jobs at league clubs and universities and in 2000 joined Graham Taylor at Watford as their Under 18 coach.
Coaching in the Football League
As Under 18 coach at Watford, Hockaday helped develop the careers of players such as Paul Robinson, Hameur Bouazza, Tommy Smith, Darren Ward, Ashley Young and Alhassan Bangura. In 2005 he was elevated to first-team coach and helped the Hornets to promotion to the Premier League in 2006 on a tiny budget with half the team home grown.
In January 2007, as Watford struggled to avoid relegation, he was sacked by manager Adrian Boothroyd and replaced by Malky Mackay allegedly after complaints by a delegation of senior players about the team’s style of play[2][3]
He then joined Martin Allen at MK Dons, helping them to reach the League Two play-offs. In May 2007, Martin Allen moved to Leicester City and on 6 June it was announced that Hockaday would be joining the Leicester City coaching staff.[4]
On 19 June 2007, it was announced that he would be joining Southampton as youth team coach replacing Georges Prost, however he was put on Gardening Leave in January 2009 and was released from his contract in May of that year.[5][6]
Hockaday again linked up with Martin Allen at his new club Cheltenham Town for a short period before leaving when John Schofield was appointed as the club's assistant manager.
Forest Green Rovers
In September 2009 Hockaday became the first team manager at Forest Green Rovers.[7] His first ever first team managerial position.
Hockaday led Forest Green Rovers to the third round of the FA Cup in his debut season as a manager after overcoming Bath City in the second round.[8] Rovers were knocked out in the third round however by League Two outfit Notts County meaning Forest Green missed out on the chance to face Premier League opposition in the shape of Wigan Athletic.[9]
His first season as manager ended with relegation from the Conference National.[10] However, Forest Green were reinstated following Salisbury City's failing in their appeal against demotion from the Conference for financial irregularities.
Hockaday was awarded a new one-year contract for the 2010-11 season, despite suffering a relegation in his first season with the club.[11]
In his second season as Rovers boss, Hockaday led Forest Green to last day safety on goal difference, avoiding relegation to the Conference South following a final day 2-1 loss away at Tamworth.[12]
References
- ^ Calley, Roy (1992). Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887-1992. Breedon Books Sport. ISBN 1-873626-07-X.
- ^ "Hockaday feels Hornets' sting". www.dailymail.co.uk. 11 January 2007. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=428256&in_page_id=1779&in_page_id=1779&expand=true. Retrieved 23 June 2007.
- ^ "Aidy On Hockaday Departure". www.wfcforums.com. 19 January 2007. http://www.wfcforums.com/showthread.php?t=5724. Retrieved 23 June 2007.
- ^ "Hllen raids MK Dons for key trio". news.bbc.co.uk. 6 June 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/leicester_city/6728077.stm. Retrieved 23 June 2007.
- ^ "Hockaday placed on gardening leave". Daily Echo. 20 January 2009. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/4059686.Hockaday_placed_on_gardening_leave/. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
- ^ "Hockaday added to Saints backroom". news.bbc.co.uk. 19 June 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/6767725.stm. Retrieved 23 June 2007.
- ^ "Hockaday named as Forest Green Rovers manager". thisisgloucestershire. 9 September 2009. http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/news/Hockaday-names-Forest-Green-Rovers-manager/article-1324208-detail/article.html.
- ^ "Forest Green Rovers keep Cup dream alive". thisisgloucestershire. Monday 30 November 2009. http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Rovers-Cup-dream-alive/story-11874879-detail/story.html. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
- ^ "Notts County 2-1 Forest Green". BBC Sport. 20 January 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/8466395.stm. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
- ^ "Grays Athletic 2-1 Forest Green Rovers". BBC Sport. 24 April 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/8620926.stm.
- ^ "Forest Green to offer manager Dave Hockaday a new deal". BBC Sport. 27 April 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/f/forest_green_rovers/8646346.stm.
- ^ "Tamworth 2-1 Forest Green Rovers". BBC Sport. 30 April 2011. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/9465795.stm. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
External links
- Article about Cirencester Academy
- Hornets are stirred up by their academy
- Hockaday on his role at Southampton
- Swindon Town profile
- Dave Hockaday career stats at Soccerbase
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- Living people
- People from Sedgefield
- English footballers
- Association football wingers
- Billingham Synthonia F.C. players
- Blackpool F.C. players
- Swindon Town F.C. players
- Hull City A.F.C. players
- Stoke City F.C. players
- Shrewsbury Town F.C. players
- Cirencester Town F.C. players
- The Football League players
- Watford F.C. non-playing staff
- Southampton F.C. non-playing staff
- English football managers
- Forest Green Rovers F.C. managers
- Football Conference managers
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