Garry Monk

English footballer (born 1979)

Garry Alan Monk (born 6 March 1979) is an English football manager and former player. He has managed EFL Championship club Middlesbrough since 2017. He played for Torquay United, Southampton, Barnsley and Swansea City. He has previously been the manager of Swansea and Leeds United.

Garry Monk
Monk playing for Swansea City in 2010
Personal information
Full name Garry Alan Monk[1]
Date of birth (1979-03-06) 6 March 1979 (age 45)[1]
Place of birth Bedford, England
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1]
Position(s) Centre back
Youth career
0000–1995 Torquay United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1996 Torquay United 5 (0)
1996–2004 Southampton 11 (0)
1998Torquay United (loan) 6 (0)
1999Stockport County (loan) 2 (0)
2001Oxford United (loan) 5 (0)
2002–2003Sheffield Wednesday (loan) 15 (0)
2003–2004Barnsley (loan) 14 (0)
2004 Barnsley 3 (0)
2004–2014 Swansea City 226 (3)
Total 287 (3)
Teams managed
2014–2015 Swansea City
2016–2017 Leeds United
2017 Middlesbrough
2018–2019 Birmingham City
2019–2020 Sheffield Wednesday
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career change

Playing career change

Garry played for Torquay United Academy until 1995, and began playing for the first team before leaving for Southampton the next year.[2] He rarely played for The Saints and went out on loan to Torquay, Stockport County, Oxford United and Sheffield Wendesday. He also played on loan for Barnsley, before joining permanently in January 2004.

He left for Swansea City in Summer 2004, and stayed there for ten years. Garry was captain for a while, but retired from football in 2004.

Managerial career change

Garry started managing Swansea City as their interim player-manager after Michael Laudrup was given the sack.[3] He was good and Swansea were not relegated to the Championship.[4] He became the main manager the next season,[5] and they played well and finished eighth.[6] Garry was not good at the beginning of the next season, and was sacked in Christmas time 2015.[7]

He was manager of Leeds United from 2016 to 2017, where they finished seventh; he resigned from his job despite the club wanting him to stay.[8][9]

Garry became the manager of Middlesbrough in 2017.[10]

Career statistics change

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Torquay United 1995–96[11] Third Division 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
Southampton 1996–97[12] Premier League 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1997–98[13] Premier League 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1998–99[14] Premier League 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1999–2000[15] Premier League 2 0 0 0 2 0
2000–01[16] Premier League 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
2001–02[17] Premier League 2 0 0 0 1 0 3 0
2002–03[18] Premier League 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2003–04[19] Premier League 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 11 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 13 0
Torquay United (loan) 1998–99[14] Third Division 6 0 6 0
Stockport County (loan) 1999–2000[15] First Division 2 0 2 0 4 0
Oxford United (loan) 2000–01[16] Second Division 5 0 5 0
Sheffield Wednesday (loan) 2002–03[18] First Division 15 0 0 0 15 0
Barnsley 2003–04[19] Second Division 17 0 4 1 21 1
Swansea City 2004–05[20] League Two 34 0 4 0 1 0 2[a] 0 41 0
2005–06[21] League One 33 1 0 0 0 0 9[b] 1 42 2
2006–07[22] League One 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
2007–08[23] League One 32 1 3 0 2 0 6[a] 0 43 1
2008–09[24] Championship 40 1 3 0 3 0 46 1
2009–10[25] Championship 23 0 1 0 2 1 26 1
2010–11[26] Championship 29 0 1 1 3 0 3[c] 0 36 1
2011–12[27] Premier League 16 0 2 0 0 0 18 0
2012–13[28] Premier League 11 0 0 0 4 1 15 1
2013–14[29] Premier League 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Total 220 3 14 1 16 2 20 1 270 7
Career total 281 3 19 2 19 2 20 1 339 8
  1. 1.0 1.1 Appearances in Football League Trophy
  2. Six appearances and one goal in Football League Trophy, three appearances in League One play-offs
  3. Appearances in Championship play-offs

Managerial statistics change

As of 9 November 2020
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team From To Record Ref.
P W D L Win %
Swansea City 4 February 2014 9 December 2015 77 28 17 32 036.4 [30]
Leeds United 2 June 2016 25 May 2017 53 25 11 17 047.2 [30]
Middlesbrough 9 June 2017 23 December 2017 26 12 5 9 046.2 <[31][32][30]
Birmingham City 4 March 2018 18 June 2019 59 19 20 20 032.2 [30]
Sheffield Wednesday 6 September 2019 9 November 2020 58 18 15 25 031.0 [30]
Total 273 102 68 103 037.4

Honours change

Player change

Swansea City

Individual

Manager change

Individual

References change

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2010). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2010–11. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing. p. 291. ISBN 978-1-84596-601-0.
  2. Holley, Duncan; Chalk, Gary (2003). In That Number – A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC. Hagiology Publishing. pp. 552–553. ISBN 0-9534474-3-X.
  3. BBC Sport - Swansea sack Michael Laudrup and place Garry Monk in charge
  4. Lovejoy, Joe (9 February 2014). "Garry Monk off to dream start as Swansea put Cardiff in further trouble". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  5. "Monk appointed Swans' first-team manager". swanseacity.net. 7 May 2014. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  6. "Crystal Palace 1–0 Swansea City". BBC Sport. 24 May 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  7. "Swansea City part company with manager". BBC Sport. 9 December 2015.
  8. "Garry Monk resigns as Leeds United head coach with Aitor Karanka job swap on the cards". Telegraph. 25 May 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  9. "Garry Monk: Leeds United head coach resigns after one season". BBC. 25 May 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
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  11. Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2007). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2007–08. Edinburgh: Mainstream. p. 283. ISBN 978-1-84596-246-3.
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