Ray Mathias

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Ray Mathias
Personal information
Full name	Raymond Mathias
Date of birth	December 13, 1946 (1946-12-13) (age 62)
Place of birth	Liverpool, Britain
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position	Full Back
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1964–1985	Tranmere Rovers	567 0(6)
Teams managed
1986–1989 1998–1999 2001 2002–2003 2004	Wigan Athletic Wigan Athletic Tranmere Rovers (caretaker) Tranmere Rovers Chester City (caretaker)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Raymond "Ray" Mathias (born 13 December 1946) is an English football coach and former player. He has spent most of his career in the lower leagues of English football but is currently without a role - after being relieved of his duties as former Blackburn Rovers manager Paul Ince also left the club.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Playing 1.2 Coaching 2 Honours 2.1 Player 2.2 Coach 3 Managerial stats 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Playing

Born in Liverpool, Mathias spent his entire playing career with Tranmere Rovers from 1964 to 1985 and earning two testimonials in the process; a true one-club man, making 567 Football League appearances. His time at Tranmere was not very fruitful, his most notable achievement being winning promotion from the Fourth Division in the 1975–76 season.

[edit] Coaching

After retiring from playing, Mathias joined the coaching staff at Wigan Athletic and spent three years in charge of the Latics from 1986–89. The highlight of this spell was leading Wigan to the FA Cup quarter-finals in 1987. He later returned to Tranmere as a coach but then returned to Wigan as manager for the 1998–99 season; despite leading the club to victory in the Football League Trophy final at Wembley and the Second Division play-offs he lost his job shortly afterwards.

After once again becoming part of the managerial set-up at Tranmere and spells as caretaker manager, he was finally handed the reins on a permanent basis in 2002 but sacked a year later. Mathias then had an unsuccessful caretaker spell at Chester City in 2004 and briefly worked as assistant manager at Bury in 2005. In October 2006 he was appointed as assistant manager to Paul Ince at League Two strugglers Macclesfield Town. The pair were able to guide the Silkmen to an unlikely survival before moving to Milton Keynes Dons where they achieved more success, winning the League Two championship and the Football League Trophy. They subsequently moved on to top flight team Blackburn Rovers in June 2008.

On 18th Of December 2008 Ray Matthias was relieved of his duties along with Archie Knox following the sacking of Paul Ince and the subsequent arrival of Sam Allardyce as the new Rovers manager.^[1]

[edit] Honours

[edit] Player

• Football League Fourth Division Promotion: 1
  

1975–76

[edit] Coach

• Football League Trophy: 2
  

1998–99, 2007–08

• Football League Two Winner: 1
  

2007–08

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				P	W	D	L	Win %
Wigan Athletic		1 June 1986	15 March 1989	142	59	50	33	41.54
Wigan Athletic		4 August 1998	21 May 1999	62	32	17	13	51.61
Tranmere Rovers		18 March 2001	7 May 2001	11	1	7	3	09.09
Tranmere Rovers		1 August 2002	29 September 2003	66	29	19	18	43.93
Chester City		6 August 2004	30 August 2004	6	0	4	2	00.00

[edit] See also

• List of one-club men

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.rovers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10303~1492130,00.html

[edit] External links

• Ray Mathias management career stats at Soccerbase

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 Tranmere Rovers F.C. – Managers Cooke (1912–35) · Carr (1935–36) · Knowles (1936–39) · Ridding (1939–45) · Blackburn (1946–55) · Kelly (1955–57) · Farrell (1957–60) · Galbraith (1961–61) · Russell (1961–69) · Wright (1969–72) · Yeats (1972–75) · King (1975–80) · Hamilton (1980–85) · Worthington (1985–87) · Moore (1987) · King (1987–96) · Aldridge (1996–2001) · Sheedy (2001) · Mathias (2001) · Watson (2001–02) · Mathias (2002–03) · McMahon (2003) · Little (2003–06) · Moore (2006–09) · Barnes (2009–)

v • d • e Chester City F.C. – Managers Hewitt (1930–36) · Mansley (1936) · Raisbeck (1936–38) · Brown (1938–53) · Page (1953–56) · Harris (1956–59) · Pearson (1959–61) · Lambton (1962–63) · Hauser (1963–68) · Roberts (1968–76) · Oakes (1976–82) · Sear (1982) · Sainty (1982–83) · Storton (1983–84) · Sear (1984) · McGrath (1984) · Speight (1984–85) · McNally (1985–92) · Barrow (1992–94) · Pejic (1994–95) · Mann (1995) · Ratcliffe (1995–99) · Smith (1999–2000) · Atkins (2000) · Barrow (2000–01) · Hill (2001) · Mungall (2001) · Brown, Porter & Spink (2001–02) · Wright (2002–04) · Mathias (2004) · Rush (2004–05) · Bell (2005) · Curle (2005–06) · Wright (2006–07) · Davies (2007) · Williamson (2007–2008) · Davies (2008) · Wright (2008–09) · Wadsworth (2009–)