Roy McFarland

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Roy McFarland
Personal information
Full name	Roy Leslie McFarland[1]
Date of birth	5 April 1948 (1948-04-05) (age 61)
Place of birth	Liverpool, England
Playing position	Central defender
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1966–1967 1967–1981 1981–1982 1983–1984	Tranmere Rovers Derby County Bradford City Derby County Total	035 0(0) 434 (44) 040 0(1) 008 0(0) 517 (45)
National team
1971–1977	England	028 0(0)
Teams managed
1981–1982 1984 1993–1995 1995–1996 1996–2001 2001–2002 2003–2007 2009	Bradford City Derby County (caretaker) Derby County Bolton Wanderers (Co-manager) Cambridge United Torquay United Chesterfield Burton Albion
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Roy Leslie McFarland (born 5 April 1948) is an English football manager who was also a player, notably at Derby County where he played 434 league games helping him to earn 28 caps for England.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Managerial career 3 Managerial statistics 4 Honours 4.1 Player 4.1.1 Promotions 4.1.2 Titles 4.2 Manager 4.2.1 Promotions 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Playing career

Born in Liverpool, McFarland was a player for Tranmere Rovers, Derby County and Bradford City. He represented England at full international level. Brian Clough and Peter Taylor signed him for Derby in August 1967.

He was famous during the late 1960s and 1970s as a central defender in the Derby side which won promotion to the First Division and followed this success with two league titles. In addition, he also won 28 caps for England.

He was responsible for putting Włodzimierz Lubański, Poland's best striker at the time, out of footbal for two years after a poor tackle damaged Lubański's cruciate ligament during a World Cupd qualifying match in 1973. Consequently, Lubanski missed the 1974 FIFA World Cup where Poland captured third place.

He came on in a short substitute appearence in a match for Ted Mcminn

[edit] Managerial career

McFarland started his managerial career at Bradford City as player manager when he took over from George Mulhall in May 1981. He played 40 games for Bradford in a brief spell as manager which brought the club promotion in 1981–82 via the runners-up spot in the Fourth Division. The season included a nine-game winning run, which was a club record at the time. McFarland's reign was a launchpad for the club during the 1980s but he left in controversial circumstances with allegations former club Derby County had tapped up him and assistant Mick Jones. Derby eventually had to pay a large fine and compensation for taking the pair back to the Baseball Ground.^[2]

He became assistant manager at the club during Arthur Cox's reign as manager, and was promoted to the manager's seat when Cox quit in October 1993.

McFarland lasted two seasons as Derby manager, with significant amounts of money having been spent on the team.^{[citation needed]} In his first season, they reached the Division One play-off final but lost 2-1 to neighbours Leicester City. They missed out on the playoffs a year later and McFarland moved to Bolton Wanderers.

Bolton had just been promoted to the Premier League under previous manager Bruce Rioch, and McFarland was unable to establish them at this level despite making several new signings. He was dismissed in January 1996 after just six months in charge, with Bolton bottom of the Premiership and heading for relegation.

McFarland's next management job came at Cambridge United, where he arrived just before Christmas in 1996. In his third season, 1998–99, they won promotion as Third Division runners-up. He remained in charge for two years before being replaced by John Beck in February 2001.^[3]

He took over as manager of Torquay United in July 2001, but resigned in April 2002 after Torquay chairman Mike Bateson decided that if McFarland was to have an assistant he had to have a playing one, meaning McFarland's assistant David Preece had to leave.

From June 2003 to March 2007, McFarland was manager of Chesterfield and did well to keep the famous club in the third tier of the league, with Chesterfield's severe lack of resources, when most pundits have tipped them for relegation. He left the club after the poor set of results on 12 March 2007,^[4] leaving caretaker boss Lee Richardson to try and save the struggling Chesterfield.

In 2009, after a spell out of football McFarland was appointed the caretaker manager until the end of the 2008–09 season of Burton Albion on 6 January, filling the gap created by Nigel Clough who had moved along the A38 to McFarland's former club Derby County earlier in the day.^[5] His first game in charge ended in a 3–0 victory for Burton against Salisbury City in the FA Trophy second round; it was a victory which McFarland dedicated to his predecessor.^[6] McFarland eventually helped to extend Burton's unbeaten run to 17 games, which dated back to October 2008, before his side were beaten 2–0 by his former team Cambridge United in March 2009.^[7][8] McFarland managed the side to promotion to the Football League,^[9] after which he said he was interested in staying at the club for the 2009–10 season.^[10] He later turned down the opportunity to continue as manager, as he "did not want the full-time commitment of running a League Two club on a permanent basis."^[11] He was eventually succeeded by Paul Peschisolido.^[12]

[edit] Managerial statistics

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Win %
Bradford City		1 May 1981	22 November 1982	64	35	13	16	54.68
Derby County		4 April 1984	28 May 1984	9	4	4	1	44.44
Derby County		2 October 1993	29 April 1995	93	40	32	21	43.01
Bolton Wanderers		20 June 1995	2 January 1996	28	5	16	7	17.85
Cambridge United		13 November 1996	27 February 2001	232	77	87	68	33.18
Torquay United		20 July 2001	23 April 2002	50	13	22	15	26.00
Chesterfield		12 May 2003	12 March 2007	194	54	82	58	27.83
Burton Albion		6 January 2009	18 May 2009	22	9	10	3	40.90

[edit] Honours

[edit] Player

[edit] Promotions

• 1968–69: Football League Division Two Champion (promotion to Division One) – Derby County

[edit] Titles

• 1971–72: Football League Division One Champion – Derby County
• 1974–75: Football League Division One Champion – Derby County

[edit] Manager

[edit] Promotions

• 1981–82: Football League Division Four 2nd (promotion to Division Three) – Bradford City
• 1998–99: Football League Division Three 2nd (promotion to Division Two) – Cambridge United
• 2008–09: Conference National 1st (promotion to League Two) – Burton Albion

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Roy McFarland management career stats at Soccerbase

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