List of Leicester City F.C. managers

Former manager Nigel Pearson, who is only the second manager to have managed the club twice.

Up until Peter Hodge was hired after World War I, Leicester City F.C. had no official manager. A nominal role of secretary/manager was employed, though the board and the selection committee took control of most team affairs. It was Hodge who instated a system at the club for the manager having complete control over player and staff recruitment, team selection and tactics. Though Hodge was originally also titled "secretary/manager" he has retrospectively been named as the club's first official "manager".^[1]

Leicester have had a total of 9 permanent secretary/managers and 35 permanent managers (not including caretakers). Former managers Nigel Pearson and Peter Hodge have both had two separate spells at the club, Dave Bassett also had a second spell as caretaker manager after his spell as permanent manager. Listed below is Leicester's complete managerial history (permanent managers and secretary/managers only, caretakers are not included).^[2]

This is the full list with dates of tenure and records while at the club.^[1]

Key

• P = Games Played
• W = Games Won
• D = Games Drawn
• L = Games Lost
• Win% = Percentage of Games Won

Secretary/Managers

Name	Nat.	Dates
Ernest Marson	England	1884–1892
George Johnson	England	1892–1894
J. Lee	England	1894–1895
Henry Jackson	England	1895–1897
William Clark	Scotland	1897–1898
George Johnson	England	1898–1912
John W. Bartlett	England	1912–1914
Louis Ford	England	1914–1915
Harry Linney	England	1915–1919

Managers

• Caretakers names are in italics.

Name	Nat.	From	To	P	W	D	L	Win%	Honours
Peter Hodge	Scotland	6 September 1919	May 1926	310	125	84	101	40.32	Second Division Champion 1924-25
Willie Orr	Scotland	July 1926	January 1932	242	102	50	90	42.15	First Division Runner-up 1928-29
Board		January 1932	March 1932	10	2	3	5	20.00
Peter Hodge	Scotland	March 1932	1 August 1934	100	34	26	40	34.00
Board		1 August 1934	17 October 1934	10	2	4	4	20.00
Arthur Lochhead	Scotland	17 October 1934	2 September 1936	81	33	15	33	40.74
Board		2 September 1936	October 1936	8	1	2	5	12.50
Frank Womack	England	October 1936	May 1939	123	48	29	46	39.02	Second Division Champion 1936-37
Tom Bromilow	England	August 1939	May 1945	0	0	0	0	n/a
Tom Mather	England	August 1945	March 1946	2	0	1	1	00.00
Johnny Duncan	Scotland	March 1946	11 October 1949	156	56	42	58	35.90	FA Cup Runner-up 1949
Board		11 October 1949	December 1949	7	1	4	2	14.29
Norman Bullock	England	December 1949	February 1955	232	91	64	77	39.22	Second Division Champion 1953-54
Board		February 1955	May 1955	15	7	3	5	46.67
Dave Halliday	Scotland	June 1955	November 1958	146	64	27	55	43.84	Second Division Champion 1956-57
Matt Gillies	Scotland	8 November 1958	30 November 1968	508	201	123	184	39.57	FA Cup Runner-up 1961 FA Cup Runner-up 1963 League Cup Winner 1964 League Cup Runner-up 1965
Frank O'Farrell	Ireland	December 1968	6 June 1971	134	62	27	55	46.27	FA Cup Runner-up 1969 Second Division Champion 1970-71
Jimmy Bloomfield	England	23 June 1971	23 May 1977	285	85	104	96	29.82
Frank McLintock	Scotland	9 June 1977	5 April 1978	40	5	12	23	12.50
Ian MacFarlane	Scotland	5 April 1978	24 May 1978	5	1	0	4	20.00
Jock Wallace	Scotland	24 May 1978	12 July 1982	189	69	51	69	37.10	Second Division Champion 1979-80
Gordon Milne	England	2 August 1982	3 June 1986	184	64	41	79	34.78	Promoted from Second Division 1982-83
Gordon Milne Bryan Hamilton	England  Northern Ireland	June 1986	May 1987	46	13	9	24	28.26
Bryan Hamilton	Northern Ireland	May 1987	11 December 1987	27	10	6	11	37.04
David Pleat	England	24 December 1987	29 January 1991	157	49	45	63	31.21
Gordon Lee	England	30 January 1991	29 May 1991	20	7	2	11	35.00
Brian Little	England	30 May 1991	22 November 1994	188	81	45	62	43.09	Promoted from First Division 1993-94
Kevin MacDonald Tony McAndrew	Scotland	22 November 1994	14 December 1994	3	0	1	2	00.00
Mark McGhee	Scotland	14 December 1994	7 December 1995	51	16	14	21	31.37
David Nish Chris Turner Garry Parker Steve Walsh	England	7 December 1995	21 December 1995	2	1	0	1	50.00
Martin O'Neill	Northern Ireland	21 December 1995	1 June 2000	222	85	67	70	38.29	Promoted from First Division 1995-96 League Cup Winner 1997 League Cup Runner-up 1999 League Cup Winner 2000
Peter Taylor	England	12 June 2000	30 September 2001	54	19	9	26	35.19
Garry Parker	England	30 September 2001	10 October 2001	1	0	0	1	00.00
Dave Bassett	England	10 October 2001	6 April 2002	28	4	8	16	14.29
Micky Adams	England	7 April 2002	11 October 2004	111	41	38	32	36.94	Promoted from First Division 2002-03
Dave Bassett Howard Wilkinson	England	11 October 2004	30 October 2004	4	0	4	0	00.00
Craig Levein	Scotland	1 November 2004	25 January 2006	70	20	25	25	28.57
Rob Kelly	England	13 February 2006	11 April 2007	63	21	19	23	33.33
Nigel Worthington	Northern Ireland	11 April 2007	7 May 2007	5	2	0	3	40.00
Martin Allen	England	25 May 2007	29 August 2007	4	2	1	1	50.00
Jon Rudkin Steve Beaglehole Mike Stowell	England	30 August 2007	13 September 2007	1	0	1	0	00.00
Gary Megson	England	13 September 2007	24 October 2007	9	3	4	2	33.33
Frank Burrows Gerry Taggart	Scotland  Northern Ireland	24 October 2007	22 November 2007	5	1	2	2	20.00
Ian Holloway	England	22 November 2007	23 May 2008	32	9	8	15	28.13
Nigel Pearson	England	22 June 2008	29 June 2010	107	55	30	22	51.40	League One Champion 2008-09
Paulo Sousa	Portugal	7 July 2010	1 October 2010	12	4	2	6	33.33
Chris Powell Mike Stowell	England	1 October 2010	4 October 2010	1	1	0	0	100.00
Sven-Göran Eriksson	Sweden	4 October 2010	24 October 2011	55	24	14	17	43.64
Jon Rudkin Steve Beaglehole Mike Stowell	England	24 October 2011	15 November 2011	3	1	0	2	33.33
Nigel Pearson	England	15 November 2011	30 June 2015	175	80	37	58	45.71	Championship Champions 2013-14
Claudio Ranieri	Italy	13 July 2015	Present	43	25	14	4	58.14	Premier League Champions 2015-16

Notes

• When exact date of the managerial stint is unknown, only the month and the year is given.
• Tom Bromilow, Tom Mather and Johnny Duncan all took charge of wartime fixtures, which are not counted as "competitive fixtures."
• Matt Gillies stint includes a period between January 1968-March 1968 when Gillies was ill with tuberculosis and Bert Johnson took control of first team affairs.
• During the 1986-87 season both Gordon Milne and Bryan Hamilton shared managerial duties with Milne assuming the title "General Manager" and Hamilton assuming the title "Team Manager"

By Nationality

This table lists the Leicester manager by nationality. Includes permanent managers and secretary/manager only.

Nationality	Number
England	26
Scotland	12
Northern Ireland	2
Ireland	1
Portugal	1
Sweden	1
Italy	1

References