Chris Hutchings

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Chris Hutchings
Personal information
Full name	Christopher Hutchings
Date of birth	5 July 1957 (1957-07-05) (age 52)
Place of birth	Winchester, England
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Walsall (Manager)
Youth career
	Harrow Borough
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1980–1983 1983–1987 1987–1990 1990–1991 1991–1994	Chelsea Brighton & Hove Albion Huddersfield Town Walsall Rotherham United	087 0(3) 153 0(4) 110 (10) 040 0(0) 078 0(4)
Teams managed
2000 2007 2008–2009 2009–	Bradford City Wigan Athletic Derby County (caretaker) Walsall
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Christopher "Chris" Hutchings (born 5 July 1957 in Winchester, England) is an English former footballer and manager of Walsall. He played for a number of clubs including Chelsea and played more than 100 games for Brighton & Hove Albion and Huddersfield Town. He has managed in the Premier League with Bradford City and Wigan Athletic.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Management career 2.1 Bradford City 2.2 Wigan Athletic 2.3 Derby County 2.4 Walsall 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Playing career

As a player, Hutchings spent time at Harrow Borough, Chelsea, Brighton & Hove Albion, Huddersfield Town, Walsall and Rotherham United. In total he made 468 senior league appearances for his various clubs.

[edit] Management career

[edit] Bradford City

His first coaching role came at Rotherham, where he was youth team coach. He moved to Bradford City as assistant manager under Chris Kamara and continued in the role under Paul Jewell. In his time at Bradford, the club was promoted from the Second Division to the Premier League.

Hutchings took charge as Bradford's manager during the 2000–01 season after Jewell moved to Sheffield Wednesday.^[1] He took Bradford to the semi-finals of the Intertoto Cup and won the club's first Premier League home game of the season with a 2–0 win over Chelsea. However, he lasted a total of only 21 competitive games, and his win against Chelsea was the only one in 12 Premier League games, before being sacked on 6 November 2000.^[2]

[edit] Wigan Athletic

Hutchings linked up again with Jewell as assistant manager now at Wigan Athletic in 2001. In May 2007, he succeeded Jewell as manager for a second time.^[3] Wigan made an impressive start to the season, going top for a short period in August. However after six consecutive defeats Wigan sacked Hutchings on 5 November 2007 after the club dropped into the Premier League relegation zone after just 12 Premiership games — almost seven years to the day he was sacked at Bradford. His last game in charge was a 2–0 home defeat to Chelsea.^[4]

[edit] Derby County

He joined Bury on a voluntary basis in January 2008 to assist caretaker manager Chris Brass,^[5] but left on 24 April 2008 to link up with Paul Jewell for a third time, this time as his assistant with Derby County.^[6] When Jewell resigned as Derby manager in December 2008 after a 1–0 defeat left them 18th in the Championship table, Hutchings was once again appointed caretaker manager.^[7] Hutchings' only match in charge of Derby was an FA Cup third round tie away at Forest Green Rovers, which Derby won 4–3 despite being behind 2–0 and 3–2 during the match,^[8] before Derby appointed Nigel Clough, son of former Derby manager Brian Clough, as their new manager. Hutchings immediately left the club.^[9]

[edit] Walsall

On 20 January 2009, he was named manager of League One club Walsall with Martin O'Connor as his assistant taking over from Jimmy Mullen, who had been sacked earlier in the month. The side were 13th in the table.^[10] Hutchings' started his Walsall career with a 1–1 home league draw with Hereford United.^[11]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Chris Hutchings management career stats at Soccerbase

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v • d • e Wigan Athletic F.C. – Managers Spencer (1932–37) · Milne (1946–47) · Pryde (1949–52) · Goodier (1952–54) · Crook (1954–55) · Suart (1955–56) · Cooke (1956) · Barkas (1957) · Hitchen (1957–58) · Barrass (1958–59) · Shirley (1959) · Murphy (1959–60) · Chilton (1960) · Ball (1961–63) · Brown (1963–66) · Craig (1966–67) · Leyland (1967–68) · Saunders (1968) · McNeill (1968–70) · Milne (1970–72) · Rigby (1972–74) · Tiler (1974–76) · McNeill (1976–81) · Lloyd (1981–83) · Charlton (1983) · McNally (1983–85) · Hamilton (1985–86) · Mathias (1986–89) · Hamilton (1989–93) · Philpotts (1993) · Swain (1993–94) · Barrow (1994–95) · Cribley (1995) · Deehan (1995–98) · Mathias (1998–99) · Benson (1999–2000) · Rioch (2000–01) · Greenall (2001) · Bruce (2001) · Jewell (2001–07) · Hutchings (2007) · Barlow (2007) · Bruce (2007–09) · Martínez (2009–)

v • d • e Derby County F.C. – Managers Newbould (1896–1906) · Methven (1906–22) · Potter (1922–25) · Jobey (1925–41) · Magner (1944–46) · McMillan (1946–53) · Barker (1953–55) · Storer, Jr. (1955–62) · Ward (1962–67) · B. Clough (1967–73) · Mackay (1973–76) · Murphy (1976–77) · Docherty (1977–79) · Addison (1979–82) · Newman (1982) · Taylor (1982–84) · McFarland (1984) · Cox (1984–93) · McFarland (1993–95) · Smith (1995–2001) · Todd (2001–02) · Gregory (2002–03) · Burley (2003–05) · Brown (2005–06) · Westley (2006) · Davies (2006–07) · Jewell (2007–08) · N. Clough (2009–)

v • d • e Walsall F.C. – Managers Smallwood (1888–91) · Burton (1891–93) · Robinson (1893–95) · Ailso (1895–96) · Parsloe (1896–97) · Ford (1897–98) · Hughes (1898–99) · Ford (1899–1901) · Shutt (1908–13) · Price (1914–20) · Burchell (1921–26) · Ashworth (1926–27) · Torrance (1927–28) · Kerr (1928–29) · Scholey (1929–30) · O'Rourke (1930–32) · Slade (1932–34) · Wilson (1934–37) · Lowes (1937–44) · Hibbs (1944–51) · McPhee (1951) · Fletcher (1952–53) · Buckley (1953–55) · Love (1955–57) · Moore (1957–64) · Wood (1964) · Shaw (1964–68) · Graham (1968) · Lewin (1968–69) · Moore (1969–72) · Smith (1972–73) · Allen (1973) · Fraser (1974–77) · Mackay (1977–78) · Ashman (1978) · Sibley (1979) · Buckley (1979–82) · Martin (1981–82) · Buckley (1982–86) · Coakley (1986–88) · Barnwell (1989–90) · Hibbitt (1990–94) · Nicholl (1994–97) · Sørensen (1997–98) · Graydon (1998–2002) · Lee (2002–04) · Merson (2004–06) · Halsall (2006) · Broadhurst (2006) · Kinsella (06) · Money (2006–08) · Mullen (2008–09) · Hutchings (2009–)

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