Joe Royle

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Joe Royle
Personnel
Surname Joseph Royle
birthday April 8, 1949
place of birth Liverpool ,  England
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1974 Everton FC 231 (102)
1974-1977 Manchester City 99 0(23)
1977-1980 Bristol City 101 0(18)
1980-1982 Norwich City 42 00(9)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1971-1977 England 6 00(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1982-1994 Oldham Athletic
1994-1997 Everton FC
1998-2001 Manchester City
2002-2006 Ipswich Town
2009 Oldham Athletic
1 Only league games are given.

Joseph "Joe" Royle (born April 8, 1949 in Liverpool ) is a former English football player and coach . As a player, he won the English championship in 1970 . 25 years later, he led Everton to the FA Cup title as a coach .

Player career

Everton FC (1966–1974)

Joe Royle made his debut for his hometown club Everton in the Football League First Division 1965/66 at the age of 16 . The club from Liverpool won this season without a use of Royle the FA Cup by a 3-2 final victory over Sheffield Wednesday . His breakthrough as a regular player came in the 1967/68 season when he scored sixteen goals in thirty-four league games. 1968/69 also ensured the accuracy of Royle (42 games / 22 goals) for a third place in the table of Everon FC. As in the previous year, however, the club did not receive the right to start the trade fair cup , as the FA only sent one team per city to the European Cup at that time (in this case Liverpool FC ). In the First Division 1969/70 , the team around Alan Ball , Howard Kendall , Brian Labone and Joe Royle (23 league goals) circumvented this hurdle with the sovereign win of the English championship. In the 1970/71 European Cup , the club moved into the quarter-finals after successes over Keflavík IF and Borussia Mönchengladbach , but failed there with 1: 1 and 0: 0 at the Greek champions Panathinaikos Athens trained by Ferenc Puskás . In the following years, the team's performance deteriorated significantly, and Joe Royle could no longer prove his accuracy as before.

Manchester City (1974-1977)

In December 1974 he moved to league rivals Manchester City for £ 170,000 , but scored only one league goal in sixteen games by the end of the 1974/75 season . Things went better for Royle (37 games / 12 goals) in the following season, in which City, in addition to an eighth place in the league , secured the title in the English League Cup with a 2-1 final win over Newcastle United . The team, which started with this title in the UEFA Cup 1976/77 , failed in the European competition in the first round against the later title holder Juventus Turin (1-0 and 0-2). In the First Division 1976/77 Joe Royle (39 games / 7 goals) missed his second championship only one point behind Liverpool.

Bristol City and Norwich City (1977–1982)

After three goals in seven games in the 1977/78 season, he moved to Bristol City in November 1977 and contributed eight goals to the first division relegation. After a midfield position in the following season, Bristol rose in 1980 after four years of first class as third from bottom in the second division.

Joe Royle then moved to Norwich City at the beginning of the Football League First Division in 1980/81 and with nine hits in forty games could not prevent relegation to the Second Division. In 1982, at the age of 33, he ended his playing career prematurely due to injury.

English national team (1971–1977)

Joe Royle made his debut on February 3, 1971 at the age of 21 in the English national team coached by Alf Ramsey in a 1-0 win over Malta. By 1977 he played five more internationals in which he scored two goals.

Coaching career

Oldham Athletic (1982-1994)

Following his playing career, Joe Royle took over on July 14, 1982, the coaching post of the English second division Oldham Athletic . 1986/87 he missed promotion to the first division with his team as third in the table only in the play-offs. In the English League Cup , the team around Denis Irwin and Paul Warhurst moved into the final in 1990, but lost it 0-1 against Nottingham Forest . In 1991, Oldham won the championship in the Football League Second Division , rising to the first division for the first time since 1923. The promoted team finished the last season of the First Division in 1991/92 in seventeenth place and thus secured relegation. Much narrower was this in the newly founded Premier League 1992/93 due to a goal difference that was two better than Crystal Palace. In the Premier League 1993/94 Oldham rose after three years of first class as the penultimate again in the second division. In February 1994 Joe Royle was named Trainer of the Month.

Everton FC (1994–1997)

On November 10, 1994 Royle left Oldham after more than twelve years and took over the coaching post at Everton FC . In the Premier League 1994/95 he reached only fifteenth place with his new team, but moved into the final of the FA Cup 1994/95 . In the final at Wembley , the team around Neville Southall , Dave Watson , Anders Limpar and David Unsworth defeated Manchester United 1-0. In the 1995/96 European Cup Winners' Cup , however, Everton failed in the second round to Feyenoord Rotterdam . After a sixth place in 1995/96 Joe Royle got with his team in the course of the Premier League 1996/97 in danger of relegation and left after disagreements with the board on March 27, 1997 the club.

Manchester City (1998-2001)

Almost a year after his last coaching position, he took over from Frank Clark as coach of Manchester City on February 18, 1998 . Royle rose with his new team at the end of the 1997/98 season, one point behind three clubs in the third division. In 1998/99, however, the team managed to return directly to the second division after a third place and a play-off success over FC Gillingham. In 1999/2000 City managed to march straight through to the top division through the runner-up. After these two very successful seasons followed in the Premier League 2000/01 with the direct relegation as third from bottom a setback and the end for coach Joe Royle.

Ipswich Town (2002-2006)

On October 28, 2002, he took over the coaching post at first division relegated Ipswich Town and missed the return to the Premier League in the 2002/03 season . 2003/04 Ipswich reached the play-offs in fifth place, but failed there prematurely at West Ham United. In the newly formed Football League Championship 2004/05 , the club moved in third again in the first play-off round and failed again at West Ham. After another season in the middle of the table, his activity in Ipswich ended on May 11, 2006.

After a short term at his old club Oldham Athletic from March 15 to May 8, 2009 Joe Royle ended his coaching career.

titles and achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FA Cup Final 1995 (Evertonfc)
  2. ↑ Royle's regret over Everton exit (BBC Sport)
  3. ↑ Shoot-out success for City (BBC Sport)
  4. ↑ Man City sack Royle (BBC Sport)
  5. ↑ Royle eyes promotion (BBC Sport)
  6. ↑ Ipswich and boss Royle part ways (BBC Sport)
personal data
SURNAME Royle, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Royle, Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool , England