Terry Skiverton

Terence John Skiverton (born 26 June 1975) is an English former footballer who enjoyed a long playing career at Yeovil Town for 11 years, appearing 382 times in all competitions, before becoming their manager and subsequently, assistant manager, manager and then assistant manager again.

Terry Skiverton
Skiverton coaching in a Yeovil Town training session in 2020
Personal information
Full name Terence John Skiverton [1]
Date of birth (1975-06-26) 26 June 1975[2]
Place of birth Mile End, England
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[1]
Position(s) Centre back
Club information
Current team
 Yeovil Town (academy head of coaching)
Youth career
1991–1993 Chelsea
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1996 Chelsea 0 (0)
1995 → Sandefjord BK (loan) 3 (0)
1995–1996 → Wycombe Wanderers (loan) 10 (1)
1996–1997 Wycombe Wanderers 10 (1)
1997–1999 Welling United 73 (4)
1999–2010 Yeovil Town 328 (38)
Total 424 (44)
National team
2002–2003 England Semi-Pro 4 (0)
Teams managed
2009–2012 Yeovil Town
2012–2015 Yeovil Town (assistant manager)
2015 Yeovil Town (caretaker)
2015–2018 Yeovil Town (assistant manager)
2019– Yeovil Town (academy head of coaching)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

As a player, Skiverton started his career at Chelsea, failing to make a first-team appearance but made many reserve appearances, making Captain of the reserve team before moving to Wycombe Wanderers – initially on loan – and then dropping out of the football league by moving to Welling United. He finally retired with Yeovil in 2010. As captain, Skiverton took Yeovil into the Football League for the first time in their history. While playing for Yeovil in the Conference he was called up several times for the England Semi-Pro side and made four appearances.

Playing career

Skiverton was born in Mile End, London, and began his career as a trainee at Chelsea, but never made the first team. After a loan spell he made the permanent move to Wycombe Wanderers in 1996, and a year later dropped out of league football to join Welling United. He also had a short spell in Norway in 1995, playing for Sandefjord Ballklubb in Norwegian First Division.

He joined Yeovil from Welling in 1999, and was a key part of the club, playing at centre-back as they gained promotions from the Football Conference up to Football League One.

After joining Yeovil he gained cult status with the fans and is a hero at the club, playing over 300 league games before becoming player-manager of the club. Skiverton announced his retirement from playing on 9 May 2010 after appearing 382 times and scoring 42 goals in all competitions making him Yeovil's tenth most-capped post-war player.

Skiverton made what was expected to be his final appearance ever as a player in Darren Way's Benefit match against Manchester United Reserves.

Managerial career

On 18 February 2009 Skiverton was named as Yeovil's player-manager after the club had parted company with Russell Slade earlier in the week.[3] He succeeded in keeping Yeovil in League One with a series of good home results finishing in 15th place with 53 points.

On 9 May 2010, after only appearing as a player twice since his appointment he relinquished his playing duties and became just a manager.

In January 2011, Skiverton was nominated for the Football League's Manager of the Month award but he subsequently lost out to Rochdale manager Keith Hill, and on 26 February 2011, Skiverton took charge of his 100th match as Yeovil manager in a 1 – 0 win away to Tranmere Rovers.

On 9 January 2012, Skiverton stood down as manager, with former Yeovil boss Gary Johnson returning for his second spell in charge. Skiverton took on the role of assistant manager.

On 4 February 2015, after Johnson was relieved of his role as manager Skiverton was once again promoted back to acting first team manager.[4] After only winning two of his thirteen matches in charge Skiverton was demoted back to assistant manager with the club appointing Paul Sturrock as the club's new first team manager.[5]

Managerial statistics
As of 9 April 2015[6]
Team From To Record
GWDLWin %[A]
Yeovil Town 18 February 2009 9 January 2012 144 38 41 65 026.39
Yeovil Town 4 February 2015 9 April 2015 13 2 2 9 015.38
Total 157 40 43 74 025.48
A. ^ The "Win %" column is rounded to two decimal places.

Personal life

While at Welling, and at Yeovil until the club turned professional, Skiverton appeared on Dream Team on the staff of Harchester United.[2]

Honours

Yeovil Town

Individual

References
  1. Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2009). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2009–10. Mainstream Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84596-474-0.
  2. "Terry Skiverton Profile". Ciderspace. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
  3. "Skiverton named Yeovil boss". BBC Sport. 18 February 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2009.
  4. "Gary Johnson: Yeovil manager sacked by League One club". BBC Sport. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  5. "Paul Sturrock: Yeovil Town confirm manager appointment". BBC Sport. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  6. "Terry Skiverton's managerial career". Soccerbase. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  7. "Yeovil lift FA Trophy". BBC Sport. 12 May 2002. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  8. Rollin, Glenda; Rollin, Jack, eds. (2003). Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2003–2004. London: Headline Publishing Group. pp. 620, 624. ISBN 978-0-7553-1228-3.
  9. "Ronaldo secures PFA awards double". BBC Sport. 22 April 2007. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
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