| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Graham Norman Hawkins[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 5 March 1946[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Darlaston, England[1] | ||
| Date of death | 27 September 2016 (aged 70)[2] | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[3] | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1962–1964 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1964–1968 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 34 | (0) |
| 1967 | → Los Angeles Wolves (loan) | ||
| 1968–1974 | Preston North End | 245 | (3) |
| 1974–1978 | Blackburn Rovers | 109 | (4) |
| 1978–1979 | Port Vale | 62 | (3) |
| Total | 450 | (10) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1982–1984 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | ||
| 1984–1987 | Bahrain SC | ||
| 1987–1989 | Al Hala SC | ||
| 1990 | Al-Arabi SC | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Graham Norman Hawkins (5 March 1946 – 27 September 2016) was an English football player and manager. During a sixteen-year playing career in the English Football League, he made 502 league and cup appearances, scoring eleven goals. He spent fourteen years coaching and eight years in management and spent the later years of his life working as a football administrator.
A commanding defender, Hawkins began his career at Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1964 and helped the club to win promotion out of the Second Division in 1966–67. He was sold to Preston North End for a £35,000 fee in January 1968. In six and a half seasons with Preston, he made 269 league and cup appearances and also served as their captain as they won the Third Division title in 1970–71. He was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a fee of £18,000 in June 1974. He was named on the PFA Team of the Year as the club won the Third Division title in 1974–75. He made 131 league and cup appearances in three and a half seasons at the club before being sold to Port Vale in January 1978 for £6,000. He worked as a player-coach but left the club in acrimonious circumstances during the 1979–80 season after being overlooked for the caretaker manager position.
He served Shrewsbury Town as assistant manager from June 1980 until he was appointed as manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers in August 1982. In his first season of management, 1982–83, he led the club to promotion out of the Second Division despite budget constraints. Wolves were relegated out of the First Division the following season, and Hawkins was sacked in April 1984. He then spent six years coaching in the Middle East, with Bahrain SC, Al Hala SC and Al-Arabi SC. He led Bahrain SC to the Bahraini Premier League title in the 1984–85 season. He later worked as Head of Player Development at the Football League and retired in March 2011.
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