Alan Smith (football manager)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 28 December 1946 | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1977–1981 | Dulwich Hamlet | ||
| 1993–1995 | Crystal Palace | ||
| 1995–1996 | Wycombe Wanderers | ||
| 2000–2001 | Crystal Palace | ||
Alan Smith (born 28 December 1946) is an English former football manager, who has managed Dulwich Hamlet F.C., Crystal Palace and Wycombe Wanderers.
Smith began his coaching career in non-league football with Wimbledon F.C. He was appointed Reserve Team Coach to Allen Batsford in the 1975-76 season before they entered the Football League.
In 1977 Smith moved to take the role as Manager of Dulwich Hamlet, who had just been relegated from the Isthmian League. In his first season they were promoted back to the Premier Division as Champions finishing 4th in the 1978-79 season and 3rd in the 1979-80 season. At the end of the 1980-1981 season having finished 15th Smith resigned due to business commitments, but during this period had also been appointed Joint Manager of the Isthmian League Representative Team.
Smith was then appointed by Alan Mullery, the then Crystal Palace Manager, in 1983-84 as Youth/Reserve Team Coach and continued in this role throughout Steve Coppell’s era from 1984 until he was made Assistant Manager in 1989.
When Coppell resigned following relegation from the Premier League in 1993 Smith was appointed Manager and achieved instant success at Selhurst Park as his team won the Division One Championship and he was awarded the League Manager's Association ‘Championship Manager of the Year’.
In Smith’s first year in the Premier League Palace reached both Semi Finals of the Domestic Cup competitions losing to Liverpool and Manchester United after a replay. Unfortunately for Palace and Smith they were relegated on the final day of the season as the Premier League reduced the size of the Division and four teams were relegated with Palace going down on a record 48 points, the highest number ever recorded by a team being relegated. Smith was sacked a few days later.
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