Tony Mowbray

Tony Mowbray
Mowbray in 2009
Personal information
Full name Anthony Mark Mowbray[1]
Date of birth (1963-11-22) 22 November 1963 (age 60)[1]
Place of birth Saltburn,[1] England
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[2]
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1982–1991 Middlesbrough 348 (26)
1991–1995 Celtic 77 (5)
1995–2000 Ipswich Town 128 (5)
Total 553 (36)
International career
1989 England B 3 (0)
Managerial career
2002 Ipswich Town (caretaker)
2004–2006 Hibernian
2006–2009 West Bromwich Albion
2009–2010 Celtic
2010–2013 Middlesbrough
2015–2016 Coventry City
2017–2022 Blackburn Rovers
2022–2023 Sunderland
2024 Birmingham City
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Anthony Mark Mowbray (born 22 November 1963) is an English football manager and former footballer who was most recently manager of Birmingham City. Mowbray played for Middlesbrough, Celtic and Ipswich Town as a defender.

He began his coaching career with Ipswich Town and took his first managerial job at Scottish Premier League side Hibernian, where he won the Scottish Football Writers' Association Manager of the Year award in his first season. He moved on to West Bromwich Albion in 2006, where he won the Football League Championship in 2008, but then suffered relegation from the Premier League the following year. Mowbray was then appointed as manager of Celtic, but was dismissed after nine months for poor results.

Mowbray subsequently took the manager's role at another of his former clubs, Middlesbrough.[3] After a poor start to the 2013–14 season, Mowbray left Middlesbrough in October 2013.[4] After a spell with Coventry City, he was appointed Blackburn Rovers manager in February 2017. He was unable to prevent Rovers being relegated to League One, but then won promotion back to the Championship at the first attempt.

  1. ^ a b c "Tony Mowbray". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  2. ^ Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5.
  3. ^ "Tony Mowbray appointed new Middlesbrough manager". The Daily Telegraph. London. 26 October 2010. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Tony Mowbray leaves Boro". Middlesbrough F.C. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2013.