Ian Holloway

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Ian Holloway
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Personnel
Surname Ian Scott Holloway
birthday March 12, 1963
place of birth Kingswood ,  England
size 173 cm
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1981-1985 Bristol Rovers 111 (14)
1985-1986 Wimbledon FC 19 0(2)
1986-1987 Brentford FC 30 0(2)
1987 →  Torquay United  (loan) 5 0(0)
1987-1991 Bristol Rovers 179 (26)
1991-1996 Queens Park Rangers 147 0(4)
1996-1999 Bristol Rovers 107 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1996-2001 Bristol Rovers
2001-2006 Queens Park Rangers
2006-2007 Plymouth Argyle
2007-2008 Leicester City
2009–2012 Blackpool FC
2012-2013 Crystal Palace
2014-2015 Millwall FC
2016-2018 Queens Park Rangers
2019– Grimsby Town
1 Only league games are given.

Ian Scott Holloway (born March 12, 1963 in Kingswood ) is a retired English football player and current coach .

Player career

Holloway began his 18-year playing career in 1981 with his hometown club Bristol Rovers , for which he played three times. After the intermediate stations FC Wimbledon , Brentford FC and Queens Park Rangers midfielder returned in 1996 for the last and third time at Bristol and became player-manager of the Rovers. In 1999 he finally ended his active career.

Coaching career

Bristol Rovers

Ian Holloway started his coaching career in 1996 as a player-coach with his hometown club Bristol Rovers. He scored one goal in 31 league games and led his team to 17th place in the third division . In the 1997/98 season Holloway (39 games / no goal) occupied fifth place in the table and thus moved into the 1st play-off round. There the fourth Northampton Town proved to be stronger after a 3-1 home win, 3-0 in the second leg. After being placed in midfield in 1998/99, Holloway (37/0) ended his playing career at the age of 36 and concentrated exclusively on his coaching activities in the future. After a seventh place in 1999/2000, the 2000/01 season in the third division was very negative. The Rovers rose fourth from bottom with one point behind Swindon Town in the Football League Third Division . Holloway was released in late January 2001.

Queens Park Rangers

Just one month later he took over the coaching position with the Queens Park Rangers , for which he had already acted as a player from 1991 to 1996. The Rangers were in relegation battle in the English second division and hoped Ian Holloway to stay relegated. The new coach did not succeed, however, and the club was relegated to the third division for the first time in 34 years. Despite this failure, he remained coach in London and reached with his team in 2001/02 an eighth place in the Football League Second Division . 2002/03, the Rangers missed the return to the second division after a fourth place, only in the play-offs . The 2003/04 season went all the better when Queens Park was runner-up behind Plymouth Argyle and returned to the second division now called Football League Championship . There his team finished eleventh in the 2004/05 Football League Championship and secured relegation. The start of the 2005/06 season was also satisfactory for Holloway and his team. On February 6, 2006, Ian Holloway was surprisingly dismissed by the board of directors, as this saw the game operations disrupted by rumors of a move to Leicester City .

Plymouth Argyle

At the beginning of the season in the Football League Championship 2006/07 he took over the coaching post at Plymouth Argyle . Plymouth was promoted to the second division together with Holloway's last club in 2003/04 and still played in this division. Argyle finished the season in eleventh place in the table and thus clearly missed the promotion he was aiming for in the Premier League . At the beginning of the new season he announced his resignation to the board at the end of November 2007 and took over the coaching position at Leicester City . This caused considerable resentment in Plymouth.

Leicester City

His new job as a coach at Leicester did not go as hoped, rather the club rose at the end of the season from the Football League Championship 2007/08 . One point behind Coventry City led to the bitter move into Football League One . Holloway subsequently left the club and then remained without a new coaching post for a year.

Blackpool FC

In May 2009 he finally became a coach at the English second division club Blackpool . The club was promoted to the second division in 2007 after a long dry spell and had established itself in the league in the following two years. Holloway had an excellent season with his team that led him to sixth place in the 2009-10 Football League Championship . In the first play-off round Blackpool defeated the table third Nottingham Forest with 2-1 and 4: 3 and moved into the final at Wembley . There the team defeated Cardiff City , fourth in the table , 3-2 and rose again to the first division after 40 years of abstinence.

Crystal Palace

On November 3, 2012, he moved to the English second division club Crystal Palace . He made it to the Premier League with the Londoners , but after a poor start to the 2013/14 Premier League season , he resigned at the end of October 2013.

Millwall FC

On January 6, 2014, Ian Holloway was announced as the new coach of the second division club Millwall FC . Holloway managed to stay in the Football League Championship with Millwall this season, but after some meager results and the threatened relegation in the 2014/15 season , Holloway was released prematurely on March 10, 2015.

Private

Ian Holloway met his future wife Kim at the age of 14. After the wedding, Kim developed lymph gland cancer, which she survived. The couple have four children: William, twins Eve and Chloe, and Harriet. Both twins are profoundly hard of hearing, which influences Ian Holloway's job. In 2012 he went to Crystal Palace for his daughter because of the better education in London. He has also learned sign language.

successes

as a player:

as a trainer:

literature

  • Ian Holloway, David Clayton: Ollie - The Autobiography of Ian Holloway . Green Umbrella Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-906229-69-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ian Holloway appointed as Crystal Palace manager (BBC Sport)
  2. ↑ Ian Holloway: Crystal Palace boss departs Premier League strugglers (BBC Sport)
  3. ↑ Millwall: Ian Holloway confirmed as manager of Championship club (BBC Sport)
  4. ^ Millwall sack Ian Holloway and install Neil Harris until end of season , Guardian article , March 10, 2015
  5. ↑ Ian Holloway / David Clayton: Ollie, chap. 3)
  6. ↑ Ian Holloway / David Clayton: Ollie, chap. 11)
personal data
SURNAME Holloway, Ian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holloway, Ian Scott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingswood