Frank Clark (footballer)
Frank Clark ( born September 9, 1943 in Consett, England ) is an English former football player and coach, who was particularly known for his time at Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest. Since October 2011 he has been active as CEO at Nottingham Forest.
- 2.1 Leyton Orient
- 2.2 Nottingham Forest
- 2.3 Manchester City
Playing career
Newcastle United
After a brief stint at the club Crook Town unterklassigen Frank Clark moved in 1962 to the English second division club Newcastle United. In the season 1964/65 with his team as a table first, he managed to rise to the First Division. Two years later, Clark and his team had a long shaking to avoid relegation in the Football League First Division 1966/67, which was ultimately mastered scarce. The best ever league placing succeeded in season 1969/70 by a seventh place in the table. Spent the following years Frank Clark with his club through the no man's land of the table. In 1975, after 13 years in Newcastle switching to the second division Nottingham Forest.
Nottingham Forest
In Forest just Brian Clough took over as coach and should make the hitherto somewhat insignificant club in the coming years, a top international team. Before the start of the 1976/77 season Clough received support from Peter Taylor, who took over the position of assistant coach. The two had been together, among others Derby County led to the championship in the 1971/72 season. At the end of the season, the rise was in the First Division and in the Football League First Division 1977/78 succeeded his team the sensation of winning the championship as promoted ahead of FC Liverpool. The following season was very successful and was able to 2nd place in the Football League First Division 1978/79 and winning the National Champion Cup will be completed in 1979. In the final of the Swedish champions Malmö FF in Munich was defeated 1-0. Trevor Francis scored the winning goal. A year later the title defense in the National Champion Cup 1980 managed a 1-0 victory over the German champions Hamburg SV. Other titles in these years had two hits in the League Cup and European Super Cup success in 1979 against FC Barcelona.
Coaching career
Leyton Orient
After Frank Clark was initially pursued an activity as an assistant coach, he took over as coach in 1982 with the English third division Leyton Orient. In the season 1984/85 he went with his club as third from bottom in the Fourth Division from. Four years later he succeeded with his team promotion to the Third Division. Over the next three years established Frank Clark Leyton Orient in the third division in 1992 before he finished his work as a trainer in Leyton.
Nottingham Forest
For the 1993/94 season he returned to his former club Nottingham Forest. Forest had just been relegated under the legendary coach Brian Clough in the second division and this had led to the end of a trainer by Clough after 18 years in Nottingham. The cost of Clark succeeded excellently and led straight back into the Premier League introduced in 1992. There, the team reached a very good third place in the Premier League 1994 / 95th Ultimate players at this time was Stan Collymore Clark had bought from Southend United in 1993. He scored in the promotion season in 27 games 19 goals and was promoted a year later with 22 goals in 37 league games again top scorer of the team. After the season, but Clark sold it for a record transfer fee of 8.5 million pounds to Liverpool. Other key players from Forest were Stuart Pearce, Bryan Roy, Steve Stone and Steve Chettle. Another success was achieved by Nottingham in the UEFA Cup 1995/96 through to the quarter- finals. There, however, the team failed significantly to eventual winners FC Bayern Munich.
The season in the Premier League 1996 /97 should be for a very bitter for the fans again. As Table with only 6 wins in 38 games the team rose again from the second division. Already during the season moved to Hertha BSC Bryan Roy, who undertook a substitute Dean Saunders Galatasaray could not prove the expected gain. Coach Frank Clark was replaced by a 2:4 defeat on Matchday 17 at Liverpool by Stuart Pearce. Forest recorded at this time only one win of the season, this was also reached on the first match day.
Manchester City
Only a short time later, Clark took over as coach for the English second division club Manchester City, who was relegated last year from the Premiere League. However, the team also missed below him the re-emergence significantly. The following season the complete crash of the traditional club followed by the first descent into the Third Division. Frank Clark was released in mid- February 1998 by the board and then took on a new coach more activity.
Achievements
- English Champion: 1978 ( with Nottingham Forest )
- European Cup Winners ' Cup: 1979, 1980 ( with Nottingham Forest )
- European Supercup champion: 1979 ( with Nottingham Forest )
- English League Cup Winners: 1978, 1979 ( with Nottingham Forest )