Black managers in English football

There have been black managers in English football since 1960 when Tony Collins was appointed by Rochdale. Though Collins was manager from 1960 to 1967 and reached the 1962 Football League Cup Final, he was overlooked for many years and Keith Alexander at Lincoln City in 1993 was believed to be the first black manager in the country.[1]

An article in The Independent in 2018 found that a quarter of retired England internationals since 1990 had been black, though only one seventh of those had gone into management. Of those five individuals, one was still working in 2018 and only one had managed in the Premier League, for under a year.[2]

  1. ^ Harris, Sam; Dobney, Ryan (30 October 2021). "Black History Month: Tony Collins - the first black manager in the English Football League". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  2. ^ Liew, Jonathan (4 June 2018). "Football must face up to an indisputable truth: black managers do not get the same chances as white managers". The Independent. Retrieved 9 June 2022.