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Yeovil Town Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Yeovil, Somerset. The club was founded under the name Yeovil Casuals in 1895.

This chronological list comprises all those who have held the position of manager of the first team of Yeovil Town the club was first admitted to the Southern League in 1923 and subsequently turned professional. Each manager's entry includes his dates of tenure and the club's overall competitive record (in terms of matches won, drawn and lost), honours won and significant achievements while under his care. Caretaker managers are included, where known, as well as those who have been in permanent charge.

Managerial history
Yeovil Town's team was selected by committee until 1923, when former Queens Park Rangers player Jack Gregory was appointed player-manager. The appointment coincided with Yeovil's election in to the Southern League for the first time. Gregory remained in charge for five seasons, winning the Southern League West Section in 1924, until in 1928 he was replaced by former Newcastle United inside forward Tommy Lowes. Lowes lasted just one season before being by Scot David Pratt who experienced more success winning the Southern League West Section, Western League and the Somerset Professional Cup in his four year stint as manager. Pratt's successor was former England international Louis Page whose two season spell with the club again brought Southern League West Section and Western League titles. Prolific Scottish goalscorer Dave Halliday replaced Page after he left to join Newport County, Billy Kingdon followed Halliday in 1938 and remained in charge for 8 years spanning the Second World War and holds the record as Yeovil's longest serving manager.

After Kingdon, was Alec Stock who joined the club in 1946 and famously led Yeovil to the FA Cup fifth round in 1949, the best performance in the club's history, including victory over First Division side Sunderland. In 1949 Stock left Yeovil to join Leyton Orient his replacement Scottish international George Paterson led the club to two Somerset Premier Cup triumphs before leaving for Stirling Albion in 1951. The club then appointed Harry Lowe as their first ever manager, with all previous appointments having been player-managers. Former Portsmouth striker Ike Clarke replaced Lowe in 1953, and in a widely successful four year period as manager led the club to the Southern League and Southern League Cup double in 1955. Following Clarke's departure in 1957, former Exeter City manager Norman Dodgin was appointed although Dodgin departed before the 1957/58 season to take over at Barrow, he was replaced by Jimmy Baldwin. Basil Hayward was appointed in 1960 and brought about an immediate change in fortunes of the team leading the club to the Southern League Cup in his first season in charge. Hayward left the club in February 1964, to be replaced by Glyn Davies who led the club to their second Southern League triumph. Davies left at the end of the following season to join Swansea City with Yeovil demanding a fee for his services and receiving £1,250 from the Welsh club the first time ever that a fee had been paid by one club to another for the services of a manager. Joe McDonald replaced Davies staying at the club for two seasons before in turn being replaced by Ron Saunders. Saunders left the club to join Second Division side Oxford United in 1969, his replacement was Mike Hughes who in his four seasons at the club won both the Southern League and the Southern League Championship Cup. The 1970s saw Yeovil managed by Cecil Irwin, Stan Harland and Barry Lloyd as they continued to challenge in the Southern League. The formation of the Alliance Premier League saw a decline in Yeovil's fortunes, with Lloyd's successors Malcolm Allison and then Jimmy Giles failing to live up to previous successes and after three more managers in as many years the club was relegated for the first time in its history in 1985 under Gerry Gow. Gow's successor Brian Hall saw Yeovil return to the Conference in 1988 and won the Conference League Cup in 1990. Hall was controversially sacked in October 1990 to be replaced by Clive Whitehead but was sacked before the end of the season to be replaced by Steve Rutter. Hall returned to the club in 1994 but only lasted a year to be replaced by former England international Graham Roberts who could not avoid relegation back to the Isthmian League. In Roberts three year reign he managed to lead the club back tot he Conference in 1997 before being sacked for misconduct in January 1998 to be replaced by Colin Lippiatt, but resigned shortly after due to his refusal to go full time. Midfielder and fitness coach Steve Thompson took over as manager before being replaced by David Webb in March 2000 and becoming assistant manager. Webb lasted just seven months before leaving to join Southend United his replacement Colin Addison despite leading Yeovil to second place in the Conference their highest finish ever was sacked by Chairman John Fry in May 2001.

Addison was replaced by former Latvia manager Gary Johnson who in his first season led Yeovil to FA Trophy triumph and the following season won promotion from the Conference, to lead Yeovil into League football for the first time in their 108 year history. In their second season in the Football League Johnson managed Yeovil to the Football League Two title, before leaving the club the following September to join Bristol City. Johnson was replaced by his assistant Steve Thompson who managed to avoid relegation from Football League One. Thompson was in turn replaced by Russell Slade at the end of the season who in his first season in charge led the club to Wembley and the Football League One play-off Final. Slade was sacked in February 2009 and replaced by club captain Terry Skiverton, initially as player-manager, who on limited resources managed in his three years as manager to maintain Yeovil's place in League One. Before in January 2012, Gary Johnson returned to the club with Skiverton becoming his assistant, and lead Yeovil via the 2013 Football League One play-off Final into the second tier of English football for the first time in their history.

Managers

 * Manager dates and statistics are sourced from Hendford to Huish Park: 110 Years of Yeovil Town Football Club for Gregory to Johnson's first appointment,, Ciderspace and Soccerbase thereafter from the appointment of Johnson in 2001. Names of caretaker or interim managers are supplied where known, and periods of caretaker management are highlighted in italics and marked † or ‡, depending on the scenario. Win percentage is rounded to two decimal places.


 * Only first-team competitive matches are counted; games in the various wartime competitions and the abandoned 1939–40 season are excluded. Minor county competitions such as the Somerset Premier Cup are included before the club entered the Football League in 2003. Wins, losses and draws are results at the final whistle; the results of penalty shoot-outs are not counted.


 * Statistics are complete up to and including the match played on 29 March 2024.

Key
 * M = matches played; W = matches won; D = matches drawn; L = matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Win % = percentage of total matches won
 * † Managers with this background and symbol in the "Name" column are italicised to denote caretaker appointments.
 * ‡ Managers with this background and symbol in the "Name" column are italicised to denote caretaker appointments promoted to full-time manager.