Keepers as managers?

[Guller Bull]

Just been listening to Joe Hart on MOTD 2 and I felt he shows some good tactical awareness about when players should make runs etc .
Got me thinking, can’t think of many goalkeepers who have gone onto become successful in management. Obviously coaching but not as football managers?

[wilks_bfc]

Nuno was a keeper and he’s not done/doing too badly

He’s the only one I can think of though

[BurnleyFC]

Dino Zoff is the one that springs to mind for me.

Yonks ago, mind.

[claretonthecoast1882]

Peter Shilton was quite successful as a manager, he helped us get to Wembley and promoted

[Dark Cloud]

Shilton managed for quite a while at Plymouth and I THINK he was manager when we beat them in the '94 play off semis. I'm not sure if he managed anywhere else though.

[Guller Bull]

Peter Shilton was quite successful as a manager, he helped us get to Wembley and promoted

Forgotten about that!

[Dark Cloud]

Peter Shilton was quite successful as a manager, he helped us get to Wembley and promoted

Ha, you just beat me to it!

[Greenmile]

Lopetegui (sp?) was a keeper, I believe.

Walter Zenga.

Don Mackay

Mike Walker

OP is right, though. Not many to choose from and even fewer with any real record of success.

[Goliath]

Footballers are a bit thick and narrow minded so possibly struggle to accept a goalkeeper trying to instruct and coach them as outfield players. Same with managers who haven't played the game, it makes it nearly impossible when it shouldn't actually make much difference.

[Tall Paul]

Nigel Adkins

[dougcollins]

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[AlargeClaret]

Apart from Nuno can’t think of any of note . Though keepers tend to go into coaching rather than management.

[basil6345789]

Alan Kelly

[ClaretTony]

On this subject, although not a manager, I see that Jelle ten Rouwelaar is now at Leicester but as first team coach and not goalkeeper coach.

[NickBFC]

Chris Turner and Kevin Blackwell come to mind.

[Stonehouse]

Alan Knill am sure has been an assistant manager and manager since retiring.

[Somethingfishy]

Alan Knill am sure has been an assistant manager and manager since retiring.

Alan Knill was a central defender. I remember watching him play for Bury.

[elwaclaret]

Alan Knill am sure has been an assistant manager and manager since retiring.

Alan Knill I’m sure was a centre-half. I remember him playing for Halifax, Bury and Scunthorpe in our dark days.

[Stonehouse]

Alan Knill I’m sure was a centre-half. I remember him playing for Halifax, Bury and Scunthorpe in our dark days.

Sorry about that ,I thought he’d been a keeper.

[Stonehouse]

Does this count?

[elwaclaret]

Sorry about that ,I thought he’d been a keeper.

Nothing to be sorry about, for years I thought Alex Ferguson was a goalkeeper. Must have misheard a comment and carried the belief for years.

I used to think Alan Knill looked anything but a centre half tall but gangly with bright copper hair lol

[Rowls]

Thinking about it logically … In a 22 league team you’d expect there to be 2 ex keepers if all managers were ex pros and were drawn equally from any position.

Certainly points towards not many of them progressing that way.

Goalkeepers are different.

[Stonehouse]

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And thish

[claretfern]

Jock Wallace...Leicester & Glasgow Rangers.

[fungus_the_bogeyman]

Andy Woodman
Rob Elliot

Currently managing in the Football League

[Petersa]

Jack Marshall ex Burnley keeper became Blackburn manager in the sixties

[ClaretTony]

Alan Knill am sure has been an assistant manager and manager since retiring.

as already posted, not a goalkeeper but with a name like that it fits as a defender. He’s Wilder’s no 2 at Sheffield United.

[Fretters]

He wasn't successful, but Bryan Gunn managed Norwhich for a while about 15 years ago.

[Goalkeeper]

Footballers are a bit thick and narrow minded so possibly struggle to accept a goalkeeper trying to instruct and coach them as outfield players. Same with managers who haven't played the game, it makes it nearly impossible when it shouldn't actually make much difference.

Oi!!

[CharlieinNewMexico]

Alan Kelly Preston ??

[ecc]

Mervyn Day. West Ham keeper who managed Carlisle.

[Rowls]

He wasn't successful, but Bryan Gunn managed Norwhich for a while about 15 years ago.

"He wasn't successful" is a hard-working euphemism here.

[claretburns]

Peter Shilton was quite successful as a manager, he helped us get to Wembley and promoted

Let's not forget Kevin Blackwell either.

[mdd2]

Peter Taylor for a time in sole charge of Brighton and later Derby County but mostly the brains behind Brian Clough. Most certainly Clough's trophies were only won when Taylor was with him.