Mark Lillis
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mark Anthony Lillis | ||
| Date of birth | 17 January 1960 | ||
| Place of birth | Manchester, England | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder/Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1978–1985 | Huddersfield Town | 206 | (56) |
| 1985–1986 | Manchester City | 39 | (11) |
| 1986–1987 | Derby County | 15 | (1) |
| 1987–1989 | Aston Villa | 31 | (4) |
| 1989–1991 | Scunthorpe United | 68 | (24) |
| 1991–1992 | 11 | (2) | |
| – | Witton Albion | ? | (?) |
| 1993–1995 | Macclesfield Town | 37 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1999–2000 | Halifax Town | ||
| 2003 | Derby County (caretaker) | ||
| 2004 | (caretaker) | ||
| 2012 | Huddersfield Town (caretaker) | ||
| 2013 | Huddersfield Town (caretaker) | ||
| 2014 | Huddersfield Town (caretaker) | ||
| 2015 | Huddersfield Town (caretaker) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Mark Anthony Lillis (born 17 January 1960 in Manchester) is a former professional footballer and manager. He was most recently employed as the academy manager of Football League Championship side Huddersfield Town, the club where he started his career.
Lillis started his professional career at Huddersfield Town in Summer 1978. He played for Huddersfield for seven seasons before being sold in 1985 to Manchester City for £130,000. He stayed at this club for just one season, in which he finished Manchester city's top scorer with 12 goals and in August 1986 was sold to Derby County for £200,000. Because of knee problems, he didn't play very often for Derby, and in September 1987 he went to Aston Villa. After that he played for and Scunthorpe United before his playing career finished at Macclesfield Town in the mid 90s.
Lillis took his first job as coach for Macclesfield Town. Later, he worked for Huddersfield Town before he became assistant manager of Scunthorpe United in 1996. His first job as manager came in 1999, when he took the job at Halifax Town, a job he had until September 2000. In 2002, after John Gregory had employed him as a coach at Derby County, and Gregory was suspended from the job, Lillis was for a short time in March 2003 caretaker manager of Derby.
In March 2003 he also became assistant manager to Sammy McIlroy who was manager of Northern Ireland, and held the part-time job until October 2003. After that he became assistant manager to Sammy McIlroy at , and when McIlroy quit the job in November 2004, Lillis became caretaker manager of the club until the 18 December 2004 when Chris Turner took over as the new manager.
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