Jim Bentley
Personal information | |||
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Full name | James Graham Bentley[1] | ||
Date of birth | [2] | 11 June 1976||
Place of birth | Liverpool, England[2] | ||
Position(s) | Centre back[2] | ||
Youth career | |||
–1997 | Manchester City | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1997–2002 | Telford United | ||
2002–2011 | Morecambe | 298 | (29) |
Total | 298 | (29) | |
Teams managed | |||
2011–2019 | Morecambe | ||
2019– | AFC Fylde | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
James Graham Bentley (born 11 June 1976) is an English professional football manager and former player who played as a centre back. He is the manager of club AFC Fylde after leaving his post at Morecambe.
Career[]
Bentley, who debuted for Telford United in 1997, moved to Morecambe in 2002.[3] He played as a defender.
In June 2010, Bentley was appointed player-coach, having spent the previous season in a coaching role with the reserve team.
On 13 May 2011, Bentley was appointed the player-manager of Morecambe on a two-year contract, but since then he has concentrated on the managerial role and has not played a competitive match since taking on that post. He signed a two-year contract extension with the Shrimps on 10 October 2013. A further two-year contract extension was agreed with Morecambe on 29 August 2015. Ken McKenna also agreed the same deal with the League Two club.[4] On 13 October 2017, Bentley and McKenna agreed further contract extensions until the end of the 2019–20 season.[5]
During Morecambe's 1–2 defeat to Cheltenham on 17 December 2016, Bentley was sent off from the dugout, after reacting to Alex Kenyon's dismissal. He received a £750 fine with £250 costs and a two match touchline ban[6] from the FA after a personal hearing. At the following home game, a 4–1 victory over Notts County, Morecambe fans held a 'bucket collection' and raised the £1,000.
After the departure of Paul Tisdale from Exeter City in June 2018,[7] Bentley became the longest serving manager in the top four tiers of English football, until his resignation in October 2019[8] in order to become the new manager of AFC Fylde.[9]
Managerial statistics[]
- As of match played 16 February 2021[10]
Team | From | To | Record | ||||
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P | W | D | L | Win % | |||
Morecambe | 13 May 2011 | 28 October 2019 | 434 | 123 | 119 | 192 | 28.3 |
AFC Fylde | 28 October 2019 | Present | 45 | 19 | 12 | 14 | 42.2 |
Total | 479 | 142 | 131 | 206 | 29.6 |
References[]
- ^ "List of Players under Written Contract Registered Between 01/07/2011 and 31/07/2011" (PDF). The Football Association. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
- ^ a b c "Jim Bentley". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 July 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "New Shrimps Deal For Jim Bentley". League Clubs. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
- ^ "Jim Bentley: Morecambe manager signs new contract until 2020". BBC Sport. 13 October 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ Association, The Football. "Bentley charged". www.thefa.com. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ "Paul Tisdale leaves Exeter City after 12 years in charge of Devon club". BBC Sport. 1 June 2018.
- ^ "Jim Bentley: Morecambe manager resigns and is set for AFC Fylde job". BBC Sport. 28 October 2019.
- ^ "Fylde sack Challinor after postponement". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Managers: Jim Bentley". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
External links[]
- Jim Bentley at Soccerbase
- 1976 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Liverpool
- English footballers
- Association football defenders
- Manchester City F.C. players
- Telford United F.C. players
- Morecambe F.C. players
- National League (English football) players
- English Football League players
- English football managers
- Morecambe F.C. managers
- AFC Fylde managers
- English Football League managers