Frank Brettell
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Francis Edward Brettell | ||
| Date of birth | 1862 | ||
| Place of birth | Smethwick, Staffordshire, England | ||
| Date of death | 1936 (aged 73–74) | ||
| Place of death | Dartford, Kent, England | ||
| Playing position | Full-back | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| St. Domingo's | |||
| Everton | |||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1896–1898 | Bolton Wanderers | ||
| 1898–1899 | Tottenham Hotspur | ||
| 1899–1901 | Portsmouth | ||
| 1903–1905 | Plymouth Argyle | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Frank E. Brettell was an English football player, manager and administrator.
He played as a full-back for Everton, a club that was originally called St. Domingo's. He combined his role as player-secretary-manager with his full-time job as a reporter for the Liverpool Mercury. He became secretary of Bolton Wanderers in 1896 and remained there for two years before moving to London to join Tottenham Hotspur as their first manager. He then accepted a more lucrative offer to join Portsmouth and guided them to a second-place finish in their first season in the Southern League. He accepted an offer to join Plymouth Argyle in 1903 and helped establish the club in the professional game. The job was to be his last as a manager and he retired from football altogether a year later.
Brettell began his football career with local club St. Domingo. A full-back, he combined his playing duties with a role as secretary-manager of the team in 1875. The club was reformed as Everton in 1879 with Brettell as a member of the committee during the club's first year. He did this while being a full-time reporter for local newspaper the Liverpool Mercury.
He joined Bolton Wanderers in 1896, again as secretary-manager. Two years later he joined Tottenham Hotspur, soon after the club had been converted into a Public limited company. He brought a number of players with him from Bolton Wanderers, but his stay as the club's manager was relatively brief; he resigned in February 1899 to join Portsmouth after they offered him substantially more money to take the job.
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