Ian Holloway
Ian Scott Holloway ( born March 12, 1963 in Kingwood ) is a former English footballer and current coach of the English second division Millwall FC.
Playing career
Its 18 years of extensive playing career began in 1981 at Holloway his hometown club Bristol Rovers, for whom he played a total of three times. After the intermediate stations Wimbledon FC, Brentford FC and Queens Park Rangers midfielder returned in 1996 for the last and third time to Bristol and became player-manager of the Rovers. In 1999 he ended his active career final.
Coaching career
Bristol Rovers
Ian Holloway began his coaching career in 1996 as a player-coach at his hometown club Bristol Rovers. He scored one goals in 31 league games and led his team in 17th place in the third division. In the 1997/98 season took Holloway (39 games / no goal ) to fifth place in the standings and moved with it in the first play-off round. There, the fourth-placed Northampton Town proved after a 3-1 home win, 3-0 in the second leg to be stronger. After a placement in the middle of the 1998/99 Holloway finished (37/ 0) with 36 years of his playing career and future focused exclusively on his work as a trainer. After a seventh place 1999/2000, was the 2000/01 season in the third division conceivable negative. The Rovers were promoted as Fourth last with one point behind Swindon Town in the Football League Third Division from. Holloway has already been released at the end January 2001.
Queens Park Rangers
Just one month later, he took over as coach at Queens Park Rangers, for whom he had been acting as a player from 1991 to 1996. The Rangers were in a relegation battle in the second English League and had hoped to see Ian Holloway in the league. However, this was not possible the new coach and the club was relegated for the first time in 34 years back in the third league from. Despite this failure, he remained coach in London and reached with his team in 2001/ 02 an eighth place in the Football League Second Division. 2002/ 03, the Rangers missed the return to the second division after a fourth place, only in the play-offs. Even better was the season 2003/ 04, as Queens Park was runner-up behind Plymouth Argyle and returned to the now Football League Championship -called second division. Where his team finished in the Football League Championship 2004/ 05 the eleventh in the standings and secured the league. The start of the 2005/ 06 season was also satisfactory for Holloway and his team. On 6 February 2006 Ian Holloway but was surprisingly dismissed by the Board, as it looked disturbed by transfer rumors to Leicester City game operation.
Plymouth Argyle
At the beginning of the season in the Football League Championship 2006/ 07, he took over as coach at Plymouth Argyle. Plymouth was in 2003 /04 went up together with Holloway's last club in the second division and continued to play in this league. Argyle ended the season in eleventh place in the standings and missed so much to his desired promotion to the Premier League. At the start of the new season, he informed the Board in November 2007 his resignation and took over the coaching job at Leicester City. This caused in Plymouth for considerable upset.
Leicester City
His new job as coach at Leicester did not go as hoped, but the club at the end of the season got off from the Football League Championship 2007/ 08. A point behind Coventry City led to bitter transition into the Football League One. Holloway consequently left the club and then stayed for a year without a new coaching job.
Blackpool FC
In May 2009, he eventually became coach of the English second division side FC Blackpool. The club was after decades of drought ascended to the second division in 2007 and had established itself in the following two years in the league. Holloway managed an excellent season with his team that he 2009/10 led to sixth place in the Football League Championship. In the first play-off round Blackpool beat third-placed Nottingham Forest 2-1 and 4-3 and drew with it to the final to Wembley. There, the team defeated fourth-placed Cardiff City 3-2, an increase after 40 years of absence, on to the first division.
Crystal Palace
On November 3, 2012, he moved to the English second division club Crystal Palace. With the Londoners he made the promotion to the Premier League, but after a poor start to the season in the Premier League 2013/14 he resigned his post at the end October 2013 low.
Millwall FC
On January 6, 2014 Ian Holloway was announced as the new coach of the second division Millwall FC.
Achievements
As a player:
- Football League Third Division champions ( ascent): 1990
As manager:
- Football League Second Division runners-up ( promotion ): 2004
- Football League Championship (ascent ): 2010