Tony Walmsley
Australian professional football coach (born 1966)
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Tony Walmsley is an Australian professional football coach who worked as Technical Director and Head Coach for A-League side Central Coast Mariners.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 10 May 1966 | ||
| Place of birth | Manchester, England | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Riverside Olympic | |||
| Managerial career | |||
| 2009–2012 | Central Coast Mariners (youth) | ||
| 2012–2013 | Sheffield United (Head of Academy Recruitment) | ||
| 2015–2016 | Central Coast Mariners | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Career
Tony Walmsley started his coaching career in 1989 when he served as player/coach for Riverside Olympic in Tasmania.[1][2]
Walmsley has previously served as Academy Director for the Manchester United Youth Development Programme in Oceania.[3] He was then appointed the manager of Central Coast Mariners youth team for three seasons, where his team never finished outside the top two and won the A-League National Youth League in the 2011–12 season.[4] In September 2012 he became the Head of Academy Recruitment for English League One side Sheffield United's youth team.[5][6]
Walmsley was appointed as Technical Director of the Mariners on 19 February 2015[7] and caretaker head coach of the Mariners from 6 March 2015.
On 15 April 2015 Walmsley was announced as Mariners permanent Technical Director/Head Coach for the 2015–16 season.[8]
Under Walmsley, the Mariners had their worst A-League performance to date in the 2015–16 season. The Mariners' 13 points, the fewest in club history, resulted in a last-place finish, and they set a league record by losing 20 games while winning only 3, a record low for the Mariners. Central Coast allowed 70 goals, the most in league history, and had a goal difference of −37, the worst by an A-League team. The Mariners' totals of goals conceded at home and away (32 and 38 respectively) were also A-League records, and they went the entire season without a clean sheet.[9]
In the 2016 FFA Cup, the Mariners suffered a 2–1 loss to Green Gully SC at Green Gully Reserve, becoming just the second A-League team to be eliminated by a state league team in the FFA Cup.[10] As a result of the last placed finish in the 2015–16 season, and the Mariners' elimination from the 2016 FFA Cup, Walmsley was sacked by the Mariners on 8 August 2016,[11][12] with coaching duties in the leadup to the 2016–17 season taken up by assistant coach John Hutchinson in a caretaker role.[13] Walmsley was eventually succeeded by Australia national under-20 soccer team manager Paul Okon.
Managerial statistics
- As of 19 December 2016.
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | ||||
| Central Coast Mariners |  |
19 February 2015 | 8 August 2016 | 37 | 5 | 5 | 27 | 13.51 |
| Total | 37 | 5 | 5 | 27 | 13.51 | |||