Mark Lillis

Mark Anthony Lillis (born 17 January 1960 in Manchester) is a former professional footballer and manager. He is currently assistant manager of League Two club Scunthorpe United.

Mark Lillis
Personal information
Full name Mark Anthony Lillis
Date of birth (1960-01-17) 17 January 1960
Place of birth Manchester, England
Position(s) Midfielder, striker
Club information
Current team
Scunthorpe United (assistant manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1978–1985 Huddersfield Town 206 (56)
1985–1986 Manchester City 39 (11)
1986–1987 Derby County 15 (1)
1987–1989 Aston Villa 31 (4)
1989–1991 Scunthorpe United 68 (24)
1991–1992 Stockport County 11 (2)
1992–1993 Witton Albion 20 (10)
1993–1995 Macclesfield Town 37 (2)
Teams managed
1997 Scunthorpe United (caretaker)
1999–2000 Halifax Town
2003 Derby County (caretaker)
2004 Stockport County (caretaker)
2012 Huddersfield Town (caretaker)
2013 Huddersfield Town (caretaker)
2014 Huddersfield Town (caretaker)
2015 Huddersfield Town (caretaker)
2017–2018 Chennaiyin(assistant coach)
2020– Scunthorpe United (assistant manager)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Biography

Player

Lillis started his professional career at Huddersfield Town in Summer 1978. He played for Huddersfield for seven seasons before being sold in 1985 to Manchester City for £130,000. He stayed at this club for just one season, in which he finished Manchester city's top scorer with 12 goals and in August 1986 was sold to Derby County for £200,000. Because of knee problems, he didn't play very often for Derby, and in September 1987 he went to Aston Villa. After that he played for Stockport County and Scunthorpe United before his playing career finished at Macclesfield Town in the mid 90s.

Manager and coach

Lillis took his first job as coach for Macclesfield Town. Later, he worked for Huddersfield Town before he became assistant manager of Scunthorpe United in 1996. His first job as manager came in 1999, when he took the job at Halifax Town, a job he had until September 2000. In 2002, after John Gregory had employed him as a coach at Derby County, and Gregory was suspended from the job, Lillis was for a short time in March 2003 caretaker manager of Derby.

In March 2003 he also became assistant manager to Sammy McIlroy who was manager of Northern Ireland, and held the part-time job until October 2003. After that he became assistant manager to Sammy McIlroy at Stockport County, and when McIlroy quit the job in November 2004, Lillis became caretaker manager of the club until the 18 December 2004 when Chris Turner took over as the new manager.

On 30 May 2006, Lillis once again took over as assistant manager to Sammy McIlroy at Morecambe. Both Lillis and McIlroy left the club by mutual consent on 9 May 2011, after a disappointing twentieth-place finish in Football League Two.

In December 2011, he returned to his first club, Huddersfield Town, to become their new Academy Manager. Two months later he was appointed caretaker manager after the sacking of Lee Clark. He remained in this role until the appointment of Simon Grayson as the new manager, but was never needed as Town had no matches in the intermittent period.

Following Grayson's sacking on 24 January 2013, he became caretaker manager again, this time taking charge of 5 match, beginning and ending with Town's FA Cup 4th round tie against Leicester City. His 5 games in charge saw Town draw with Leicester in the cup, get a 1–0 win over Crystal Palace, before losing 3–0 to Lillis' former club, Derby County, then holding the runaway leaders Cardiff City to a goalless draw, then getting a 2–1 win against Leicester in the cup replay at the King Power Stadium, setting up a 5th round tie with Premier League side Wigan Athletic.

Following the departure of Mark Robins after a 4–0 defeat by AFC Bournemouth, Lillis was once again made caretaker manager on 11 August 2014.[1]

Following the sacking of Chris Powell on the 4 November 2015 he had his fourth stint as the caretaker manager, this though would only consist of the Yorkshire derby against Leeds United which they lost 3–0.

As of August 2017 he is the assistant manager to John Gregory at Indian Super League side Chennaiyin FC.

On 17 August 2020, Lillis rejoined Scunthorpe United, returning as assistant manager to Neil Cox.[2]

Family

His son, Josh Lillis, plays for Barrow as a goalkeeper.

Career as a player

Club teams

Club Club Type Club Games League Games Club Goals League Goals Period
 England Huddersfield Town Professional 234 ? 63 ? 07/1978 – 06/1985
 England Manchester City Professional 51 39 15 11 06/1985 – 08/1986
 England Derby County Contract 19 15 1 1 08/1986 – 09/1987
 England Aston Villa Professional ? ? ? ? 09/1987 – 09/1989
 England Scunthorpe United Professional ? ? ? ? 09/1989 – 09/1991
 England Stockport County Professional 8 8 0 0 09/1991 – 08/1992
 England Witton Albion Semi-Professional 8 8 0 0 08/1992 – ?
 England Macclesfield Town Semi-Professional 61 37 1 1 1993–1995

Career as manager

Team From To Record
G W D L %
Halifax Town 1 June 1999 12 September 2000 60 16 14 30 026.67
Derby County (caretaker) 21 March 2003 31 March 2003 1 0 0 1 000.00
Stockport County (caretaker) 31 July 1995 1 July 1999 6 1 1 4 016.67
Huddersfield Town (caretaker) 15 February 2012 20 February 2012 0 0 0 0 !
Huddersfield Town (caretaker) 24 January 2013 14 February 2013 5 2 2 1 040.00
Huddersfield Town (caretaker) 11 August 2014 3 September 2014 6 2 1 3 033.33
Huddersfield Town (caretaker) 4 November 2015 8 November 2015 1 0 0 1 000.00
Total 79 21 18 40 026.58

Sources

  • Mortimer, Gerald (2004): The Who's Who of DERBY COUNTY.
    Breedon Books Publishing, Derby. ISBN 1-85983-409-4

References

  1. "Huddersfield Town: Mark Lillis takes caretaker manager role". BBC. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  2. Staff, Media (17 August 2020). "Lillis reacts to his Iron return". Scunthorpe United FC.
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