Billy Horner
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | William Horner | ||
Date of birth | 7 September 1942 | ||
Place of birth | Cassop, England | ||
Position(s) | Central defender | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1960–1969 | Middlesbrough | 187 | (11) |
1969–1975 | Darlington | 218 | (5) |
Teams managed | |||
1974–1975 | Darlington | ||
1976–1983 | Hartlepool United | ||
1984–1986 | Hartlepool United | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
William Horner (born 7 September 1942 in Cassop, England) is an English footballer and manager.
Horner played at Middlesbrough from 1960 to 1969, primarily as a defender. He moved on to Darlington where he played until 1975.
He was player-manager of Darlington during the 1974–75 season, in which the club had to apply for re-election. He left the club at the end of the season and was appointed as coach to Darlington's arch-rivals Hartlepool. In October 1976, he took over as manager, and had two separate spells in this role: one from 1976–1983 and the other from 1983–1986. Although Hartlepool applied for re-election to the League on three occasions, Horner also guided the club to a respectable 9th-place finish in 1980–81, during which the club had been promotion contenders. In his second spell at the club, Hartlepool finished 7th in 1985–86, in which they had also been a promotion contender for much of the season.
Managerial stats[]
Team | From | To | Record | ||||
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G | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Darlington | August 1974 | May 1975 | 46 | 13 | 23 | 10 | 28.3 |
Hartlepool United | October 1976 | March 1983 | 307 | 95 | 135 | 77 | 30.9 |
Hartlepool United | December 1983 | November 1986 | 94 | 30 | 43 | 21 | 31.9 |
External links[]
- Career Stats
- Billy Horner management career statistics at Soccerbase
- 1942 births
- Living people
- English footballers
- English football managers
- Middlesbrough F.C. players
- Darlington F.C. players
- Darlington F.C. managers
- Hartlepool United F.C. managers
- Association football central defenders
- Hartlepool United F.C. non-playing staff
- English football defender, 1940s birth stubs