Lawrie McMenemy
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lawrence McMenemy | ||
| Date of birth | 26 July 1936 | ||
| Place of birth | Gateshead, County Durham, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Newcastle United | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1959–1961 | Gateshead | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1964–1967 | Bishop Auckland | ||
| 1968–1971 | Doncaster Rovers | ||
| 1971–1973 | Grimsby Town | ||
| 1973–1985 | Southampton | ||
| 1985–1987 | Sunderland | ||
| 1990–1993 | England U21 | ||
| 1998–1999 | Northern Ireland | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Lawrence "Lawrie" McMenemyMBE (born 26 July 1936) is a retired English football coach, best known for his spell as manager of Southampton. Lawrie McMenemy is rated in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the twenty most successful managers in post-war English football.
McMenemy was born in Gateshead, (Tyne and Wear), An ex-Coldstream Guards man, he started his footballing career with Newcastle United although he never appeared in their first team, before moving to Gateshead in the late 1950s, but McMenemy joined the club after they had left the Football League. An injury ended his career in 1961, but he moved into coaching instead, spending three years in coaching at the club.
In 1964 he was appointed manager of non-league Bishop Auckland and transformed them from a struggling side into Northern League champions and also took them to the third round of the FA Cup.
McMenemy then moved to Sheffield Wednesday where he spent two years as a coach before he got his big break as manager of Doncaster Rovers where he remained until May 1971, winning the Fourth Division Championship in 1968–69.
He then became manager of Grimsby Town, where he won a Fourth Division championship. In July 1973 he left Blundell Park to become assistant manager at Southampton.
In November 1973, four months after joining the Saints as assistant manager, he was promoted to the role of manager. He was unable to keep them in the First Division that season, but the board kept faith in him to lift the club back out of the Second Division.
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