We’ve been asked by some of our readers to detail Kevin Keegan’s management record so here it is.
Kevin Keegan’s overall management win record is over 50%
The following is Kevin Keegan’s overall management record to date including his second spell at Newcastle United.
Team From To G W L D Win% Newcastle Feb5-92 Jan8-97 251 138 62 51 55.0 Fulham May7-98 May9-99 61 38 11 12 62.3 England Feb-99 Oct7-00 18 7 7 4 38.9 Man City May24-01 Mar11-05 176 77 60 39 43.85 Newcastle Jan16-08 Present 6 0 4 2 0 Overall 512 260 144 108 50.8
Keegan was appointed manager without any previous experience as a manager on February 5th, 1992 and went on to save Newcastle from relegation to Division 3 that year.
The next season 1992-1993 Newcastle were promoted to the Premier League when they finished top of League 1 with 96 points from their 46 league games.
This is how Kevin and Newcastle United did after that, by playing great attacking football, which was a joy to watch. It was season 1995-1996 when we just missed out on winning the Premier League after being 12 points ahead of Manchester United at Christmas.
Season League Pos Games Points
1992-1993 1 1 46 96
1993-1994 Premier 3 38 76
1994-1995 Premier 6 38 72 Disappointing!
1995-1996 Premier 2 38 78
1996-1997* Premier 2 38 68
* Keegan resigned on January 8th 1997 and then Chairman John Hall tried to get Bobby Robson from Barcelona, but Bobby wouldn’t break his contract and so Dalglish took over.
Surprisingly Bobby was replaced as coach at Barcelona the following summer and became their Director of Football. We often wonder how things would have been had Bobby not been a gentleman and stood by his contract. But that’s one reason the man is so loved – his ethics are sky high.
Kevin’s record is undoubtedly a really good one.
For the record here are 3 well known managers and their overall records in their careers – to date.
Manager G W D L Win% Ferguson 1360 788 315 257 57.9 Wenger 1092 581 245 256 53.2 Mourinho 318 217 64 37 68.2
So there you have it, Keegan has a good record and certainly if he can maintain a 50% win average in his second spell at Newcastle United we’ll do just fine, thank you very much.
Comments very welcome.
88 comments so far
Southside Jordy
Feb 26, 2008 at 9:48 AM
Comment #81I’am looking forward to 2008 – 2009 season guys!!
Southside Jordy
Feb 26, 2008 at 9:52 AM
Comment #82RAB… you hit the nail right on the head buddy……100% behind you on that one!!!
Stop f-ing moaning and be a ruddy fan!!!
2 Games Man Utd
2 Games Arsenal
1 Game Smogg’s …. Draw (Weak Team Sheet)
1 Game Bolton ….. Draw ( Weak Team Sheet)
cg
Feb 26, 2008 at 9:55 AM
Comment #83They can be relegated down to 3rd – it wouldn’t change a thing. I’m still a swede – black and white at heart.
Howay the Lads!
Mr T
Feb 26, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Comment #84It’s confidence though isn’t it, the players are low on confidence, and so are the fans.
Well we kind of expected to get no points at Man Utd in fairness, but to conceede 11 goals, that doesn’t exactly instil confidence in anyone.
I’ll cheer anything I can, but there’s nothing to cheer about. Too many mistakes going on so I always feel like somehow we’re on the backfoot.
Not looking forward to Saturday, but I’m going to be entertained in the corporate facilities by Chris Mort amongst others, any messages I should give him?!
Ed Harrison
Feb 26, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Comment #85Mr T – we think Chris is doing just fine – it’s been on the playing side that things have been disastrous this season – and you can hardly blame Chris for that.
Just make sure you tell him to have Mike give Kevin the money in the summer – he’ll spend it well and wisely – we need more class players in the squad. 😀
Chicken
Feb 26, 2008 at 11:59 AM
Comment #86Ed – any chance you could give us KK’s win % for top-flight games?
I think a lot of those wins were against lower league opponents – I’m pretty sure his Premiership win % would be closer to the 40% mark and probably a truer reflection.
mikeygd
Feb 26, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Comment #87some people are just never happy, well said btw phoonCK
ChrisL
Feb 26, 2008 at 4:48 PM
Comment #88Ed,
Keegan was removed from his job at the Toon back then (he did not resign) because he would not extend his existing contract that still had nearly a year to run.