Ian Dawes (football manager)

Ian Dawes (born 16 March 1984)[1] is an English football coach, who is assistant manager and formerly caretaker manager at EFL League Two club Tranmere Rovers, alongside Andy Parkinson.

Ian Dawes
Personal information
Date of birth (1984-03-16) 16 March 1984
Place of birth Liverpool, England
Club information
Current team
 Tranmere Rovers (assistant)
Teams managed
Years Team
2013-2014 Floriana FC
2017 Bangor City FC
2020 Tranmere Rovers (caretaker)
2020- Tranmere Rovers (assistant)

Dawes was born in Liverpool, and played for Everton at schoolboy level before moving to Liverpool. After being released from Liverpool at 19 he then moved to Canada to play for Calgary Storm. Upon returning back to Britain, he player for numerous non league clubs including Lancaster City FC and Marine AFC. Whilst playing non league football he returned to former club Liverpool FC as an Academy coach and spent 10 years there before moving to Malta where he was head coach at Floriana. He then coached at Shrewsbury Town, and became head coach at Bangor City in November 2016.[1]

He left Bangor in 2017, after just four months at the club,[2] and later the same year joined Blackpool as first team coach. In August 2020, he moved to Tranmere Rovers as assistant to Mike Jackson, and took over as caretaker manager when Jackson was sacked in November 2020.[3] In his five games in charge, he led the club to five wins, including beating League One team, Accrington Stanley in the FA Cup,[4] and a penalty shootout victory against Wigan Athletic in the EFL Trophy and was nominated as League Two Manager of the Month for November 2020.

Following Keith Hill's appointment as permanent manager of Tranmere Rovers, Dawes was installed as his assistant to ensure "consistency and continuity" according to Hill.

Honours

Manager

Tranmere Rovers


References
  1. Dave Jones, "Former Liverpool FC youth player and coach Ian Dawes appointed Bangor City manager", Daily Post, 24 November 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2020
  2. Dean Jones, "Bangor City part ways with manager Ian Dawes", North Wales Chronicle, 29 March 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2020
  3. Richard Garnett, "Dawes has almost full Tranmere squad for Accrington cup tie", Wirral Globe, 5 November 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2020
  4. "TRFC 2-1 ASFC". BBC Sport. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  5. https://www.efl.com/news/2020/december/sky-bet-league-two-november-manager-and-player-of-the-month-nominations/
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