Nigel Adkins
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.jpg) Nigel Adkins, 2011
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Nigel Howard Adkins | |
| birthday | March 11, 1965 | |
| place of birth | Birkenhead , England | |
| size | 185 cm | |
| position | goalkeeper | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1983-1986 | Tranmere Rovers | 86 (0) |
| 1986-1993 | Wigan Athletic | 155 (0) |
| 1993-1996 | Bangor City | 95 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1993-1996 | Bangor City | |
| 2006-2010 | Scunthorpe United | |
| 2010-2013 | Southampton FC | |
| 2013-2014 | Reading FC | |
| 2015-2016 | Sheffield United | |
| 2017-2019 | Hull City | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Nigel Howard Adkins (born March 11, 1965 in Birkenhead ) is a former English football player and current coach .
Player career
After spending the first three years of his career at fourth division Tranmere Rovers , Adkins moved to Wigan Athletic in 1986 . With his new team, he just missed promotion to the second division in the 1986/87 season as fourth. In the following six years he played with Wigan in the third division before the club was relegated to the fourth division in 1992/93 as the penultimate.
Coaching career
Bangor City (1993-1996)
After relegation with Wigan, he moved as a player-coach to the Welsh club Bangor City and directly won the league title in the League of Wales 1993/94 . After defending his title in 1994/95 , Adkins finished the 1995/96 season with Bangor in fourth.
Scunthorpe United (2006-2010)
On November 6, 2006 Adkins took over the interim coaching position at the English third division Scunthorpe United , where he succeeded Brian Laws . A month later he officially took up the post as head coach of the Scunthorpe team. Adkins had worked for the club since 1996 as a physiotherapist and fitness trainer. In his first season as coach, Adkins led United to the 2006/07 Football League One championship , thanks in part to thirty goals from Billy Sharp . However, the newly promoted only spent a year in the Football League Championship 2007/08 before relegation to the third division took place as the penultimate. After Scunthorpe reached the play-off entry only on the last day of the 2008/09 season, the team prevailed in the final with 3-2 against Millwall and managed direct promotion to the second division. In the 2009/10 season United reached top scorer Gary Hooper (19 league goals) in twentieth the relegation.
Southampton FC (2010-2013)
During the first half of the 2010/11 season, Nigel Adkins moved to the ambitious third division club Southampton FC on September 12, 2010 and led his new team in Football League One 2010/11 as runners-up behind Brighton & Hove Albion in the second division. At the end of the 2011/12 season, he rose with his team in the Premier League .
On January 18, 2013, Adkins was sacked by Southampton FC.
Reading FC (2013-2014)
On March 26, 2013, English first division FC Reading, threatened with relegation, announced the commitment of Nigel Adkins as their new coach. After relegation from the Premier League in 2012/13 , Adkins Reading led in the Football League Championship 2013/14 to seventh place in the table and thus just missed a place in the play-offs. A significant deterioration in performance in the first half of the 2014/15 season led to the dismissal of Adkins on December 15, 2014.
Sheffield United (2015-2016)
At the beginning of the 2015/16 season, Nigel Adkins took over the vacant coaching position at the third division club Sheffield United .
titles and achievements
- Welsh champion : 1994 , 1995
- Promotion to the second division : 2007, 2009, 2011
Web links
- Player data from Nigel Adkins
- Nigel Adkins at Southampton FC ( 13 September 2010 memento on the Internet Archive )
- Nigel Adkins in the soccerbase.com database
- Profile at the League Managers Association
- Article about Nigel Adkins
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scunthorpe appoint Adkins as boss (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Scunthorpe United 2-0 Huddersfield Town (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Millwall FC 2-3 Scunthorpe United (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Nigel Adkins named as Southampton boss (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Southampton FC 3-1 Walsall FC (BBC Sport)
- ^ Southampton sack manager Nigel Adkins independent.co.uk, accessed January 18, 2013
- ↑ Nigel Adkins takes over as Reading manager (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Nigel Adkins: Reading sack manager after 6-1 defeat (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Nigel Adkins: Sheffield United appoint ex-Southampton boss (BBC Sport)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Adkins, Nigel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adkins, Nigel Howard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birkenhead , England |