Ian Branfoot

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Ian Branfoot

Full name	Ian Grant Branfoot
Date of birth	26 January 1947 (1947-01-26) (age 62)
Place of birth	Gateshead, England
Playing position	Full back
Youth career
	Gateshead
Senior career¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1965-1969 1969-1973 1973-1977	Sheffield Wednesday Doncaster Rovers Lincoln City	036 00(0) 156 00(5) 166 0(11)
Teams managed
1984-1989 1991-1994 1994-1996	Reading Southampton Fulham
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Ian Grant Branfoot (born Gateshead, 26 January 1947) is a former football manager.

He had a playing career as a defender, playing for Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers, and Lincoln City.

Branfoot was manager of Reading from 31 January 1984 to 23 October 1989, where he successfully managed the club to a record breaking start to the season of 13 straight wins in 1985, and led them to promotion to Division 2 as champions in 1986. The club maintained a 13th position the next season, but, having sold Trevor Senior and Kevin Bremner, in the summer of 1987, were relegated in 1988, but not before they won the Simod Cup on 27 March 1988, by beating Luton Town 4–1 at Wembley. Branfoot, however, was sacked in October the following year, with the team mid-table in Division 3.

He was coach at Crystal Palace between December 1989 and June 1991, before becoming manager of Southampton. He subsequently had two and a half years as manager at the Dell, where he became the most vilified manager in the club's history (until Harry Redknapp), the stands often ringing to the sounds of the chant, 'We Want Branfoot Out.' Branfoot resigned on 11 January 1994.

He then managed Fulham for two seasons in the mid 1990s. He was academy director at Sunderland between 1998 and 2002, before leaving.

He is currently a football professional at Winchester College.

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Ian Branfoot management career stats at Soccerbase

Reading F.C. – Managers

Sefton (1897–1901) · Sharp (1901–02) · Matthews (1902–22) · Marshall (1922–23) · Chadwick (1923–25) · Bray (1925–26) · Wylie (1926–31) · Joe Smith (1931–35) · Butler (1935–39) · Cochrane (1939) · Edelston (1939–47) · Drake (1947–52) · Jack Smith (1952–55) · Johnston (1955–63) · Bentley (1963–69) · Mansell (1969–72) · Hurley (1972–77) · Evans (1977–84) · Branfoot (1984–89) · Chatterley (1989^c) · Porterfield (1989–91) · McGhee (1991–94) · Gooding, Hopkins, Williams & Quinn (1994–95^c) · Gooding & Quinn (1995–97) · Bullivant (1997–98) · Pardew (1998) · Burns (1998–99) · Pardew (1999–03) · Dillon (2003^c) · Coppell (2003–09) · Rodgers (2009–)

Southampton F.C. – Managers

Knight (1894–95^s) · Robson (1895–96^s) · Arnfield (1897–1911^s) · Swift (1911–12) · Arnfield (1912–19^s) · McIntyre (1919–24) · Goss (1924–1925^s) · Chadwick (1925–31) · Kay (1931–36) · Goss (1936–37) · Parker (1937–43) · Dominy (1943–46) · Dodgin (1946–49) · Cann (1949–51) · Roughton (1952–55) · Bates (1955–73) · McMenemy (1973–85) · Nicholl (1985–91) · Branfoot (1991–94) · Ball (1994–95) · Merrington (1995–96) · Souness (1996–97) · Jones (1997–2000) · Hoddle (2000–01) · Gray (2001) · Strachan (2001–04) · Sturrock (2004) · Wigley (2004) · Redknapp (2004–05) · Bassett and Wise (2005^c) · Burley (2005–08) · Gorman and Dodd (2008^c) · Pearson (2008) · Poortvliet (2008–09) · Wotte (2009–)

(s) secretary (c) caretaker

Fulham F.C. – Managers

H. Bradshaw (1904–09) · Kelso (1909–24) · Ducat (1924–26) · J. Bradshaw (1926–29) · Liddell (1929–31) · McIntyre (1931–34) · Hogan (1934–35) · Peart (1935–48) · Osborne (1948–49) · Dodgin, Sr. (1949–53) · Osborne (1953–56) · Livingstone (1956–58) · Jezzard (1958–64) · Buckingham (1965–68) · Robson (1968) · Dodgin, Jr. (1969–72) · Stock (1972–76) · Campbell (1976–80) · Macdonald (1980–84) · Harford (1984–86) · Lewington (1986–90) · Dicks (1990–91) · Mackay (1991–94) · Branfoot (1994–96) · Adams (1996–97) · Wilkins (1997–98) · Keegan (1998–99) · Bracewell (1999–2000) · Riedle (2000) · Tigana (2000–03) · Coleman (2003–07) · Sanchez (2007) · Lewington (2007) · Hodgson (2007–)