Dave Hockaday

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Dave Hockaday
Personal information
Full name David Hockaday
Date of birth 9 November 1957 (1957-11-09) (age 50)
Place of birth    Sedgefield, England
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position Right-back
Club information
Current club Southampton (coach)
Youth clubs
Billingham Synthonia
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1975–1983
1983–1990
1990–1993
1993
1993–1995
1995–????		 Blackpool
Swindon Town
Hull City
→ Stoke City (loan)
Shrewsbury Town
Cirencester Town
Total		 147 (24)
245 0(7)
072 0(2)
007 0(0)
048 0(0)
00? 0(?)
519 (33)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

David Hockaday (born 9 November 1957) is an English former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He is currently youth-team coach at Southampton.

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[edit] Playing career

Born in Sedgefield, County Durham, he started his career as a youth player with Billingham Synthonia.

[edit] Blackpool

In June 1975, aged 17, he joined Blackpool, then playing in the Second Division. He made his first start for the Tangerines on September 25, 1976, in a 1-0 home loss to Chelsea. Aside from a League Cup second-round tie against Sheffield Wednesday, he sat out the entire 1977-78 campaign, but the following season he became a more regular first-team player as Blackpool slid down the leagues. He scored his first goal for the club in a 3-1 loss at Colchester United on September 30, 1978, and, later that season, scored both goals in Blackpool's 2-1 victory at Lincoln City.

Also on September 30, this time in 1981, Hockaday was amongst the scorers in Blackpool's 7-1 rout of Halifax Town at Bloomfield Road.

In his final season in Lancashire, he made 40 league appearances and scored eight goals, but was unable to prevent Blackpool from finishing fourth from bottom and needing to seek re-election. In his eight seasons at Blackpool he made over 190 first-team appearances, scoring 27 goals.

[edit] Swindon Town

In June 1983, he moved on a free transfer to fellow Fourth Division side Swindon Town. He was a solid, dependable right-back and was part of the team managed by Lou Macari that gained the Fourth Division championship in the 1985-86 season, following this with promotion to Division Two in 1986-87. In 1988-89 Swindon reached the Second Division play-offs but failed in their attempt to gain promotion to the top flight. In 1989-90 Swindon won the Second Division play-off final but Sunderland were promoted instead after the Swindon board admitted a series of financial irregularities. Swindon were initially demoted to the Third Division and replaced by Tranmere Rovers, the division's losing play-off finalists, but this decision was later reversed on appeal.

In September 1990, Hockaday moved to Hull City for a fee of £50,000 having made 308 appearances for Swindon, with 11 goals.

[edit] Hull City, Stoke City and Shrewsbury Town

At Hull City he saw relegation from the Second Division at the end of his first season. After three seasons, including a brief spell loan in 1993 to Stoke City (where he helped them to the Division Two championship), he moved to Shrewsbury Town. He was a member of the Shrewsbury team who won the Division Three championship at the end of his first season, before he dropped out of league football, moving to Cirencester Town in 1995.

In his Football League career, which spanned twenty years, he won three league titles and gained two further promotions via the play-offs and was only denied the chance to play in the top flight because of financial irregularities outside his control .

[edit] Coaching career

[edit] Cirencester Town

In 1995 he established the first football academy in the country at Cirencester. The Cirencester Football Academy was created in conjunction with the local Sixth Form College. The Academy team soon built up a nation-wide reputation by winning the National College Championship. Subsequently, his concept of a football academy has been adopted by most major clubs in England.

He was head-hunted for many jobs at league clubs and universities and in 2000 joined Graham Taylor at Watford as their Under 18 coach.

[edit] Coaching in the Football League

As Under 18 coach at Watford, Hockaday helped develop the careers of players such as Paul Robinson, Hameur Bouazza, Tommy Smith, Darren Ward, Ashley Young and Alhassan Bangura. In 2005 he was elevated to first-team coach and helped the Hornets to promotion to the Premier League in 2006 on a tiny budget with half the team home grown.

In January 2007, as Watford struggled to avoid relegation, he was sacked by manager Adrian Boothroyd and replaced by Malky Mackay allegedly after complaints by a delegation of senior players about the team’s style of play[1][2]

He then joined Martin Allen at MK Dons, helping them to reach the League Two play-offs. In May 2007, Martin Allen moved to Leicester City and on 6 June it was announced that Hockaday would be joining the Leicester City coaching staff[3].

On 19 June 2007, it was announced that he would be joining Southampton as youth team coach replacing Georges Prost[4][5].

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "Hockaday feels Hornets' sting", www.dailymail.co.uk, 2007-01-11. Retrieved on June 23. 
  2. ^ Aidy On Hockaday Departure. www.wfcforums.com (2007-01-19). Retrieved on June 23, 2007.
  3. ^ "Hllen raids MK Dons for key trio", news.bbc.co.uk, 2007-06-06. Retrieved on June 23. 
  4. ^ "Hockaday signs on", www.saintsfc.co.uk, 2007-06-19. Retrieved on June 23. 
  5. ^ "Hockaday added to Saints backroom", news.bbc.co.uk, 2007-06-19. Retrieved on June 23. 

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