Ray Lewington
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Raymond Lewington | ||
| Date of birth | 7 September 1956 | ||
| Place of birth | Lambeth, England | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1975–1979 | Chelsea | 85 | (4) |
| 1979 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 29 | (2) |
| 1979–1980 | Wimbledon | 23 | (0) |
| 1980–1985 | Fulham | 174 | (20) |
| 1985–1986 | Sheffield United | 36 | (0) |
| 1986–1990 | Fulham | 60 | (1) |
| Total | 407 | (28) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1986–1990 | Fulham | ||
| 1998 | Crystal Palace (caretaker) | ||
| 2000–2001 | Brentford | ||
| 2002–2005 | Watford | ||
| 2007 | Fulham (caretaker) | ||
| 2007–2010 | Fulham (assistant) | ||
| 2010 | Fulham(caretaker) | ||
| 2010–2011 | Fulham (youth development manager) | ||
| 2011–2012 | Fulham (first team coach) | ||
| 2012–2016 | England (assistant) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Raymond "Ray" Lewington (born 7 September 1956) is a retired English footballer and former assistant manager of the England national football team. His son, Dean, is a professional footballer playing for Milton Keynes Dons.
Lewington started his career at Chelsea in the 1970s, and played a season at Vancouver Whitecaps in 1979 where he was part of the Whitecaps' championship squad that won the NASL Soccer Bowl 1979, before a loan spell at Wimbledon.
In 1980 he transferred to Fulham, and he was to go on and make over 170 League appearances for them before a season at Sheffield United in 1985–86. After that season he returned to Fulham and went on to play another 60 league matches for them.
Lewington became player-manager of Fulham after they were relegated to the Football League Third Division in July 1986. Lewington, still only 29, was the youngest manager in the Football League at the time. Fulham's budget was tight and they could only manage an 18th-place finish in Lewington's first season as manager. Off the field, the club was unstable after two takeovers in quick succession and the suggestion of a merger with their West London rivals Queens Park Rangers.
The next two seasons showed no sign of an up-turn in fortune, but in 1989, Lewington guided the club to the play-offs, although they were unsuccessful in achieving promotion. The following season saw the club struggle against relegation once more. At the end of that season, Alan Dicks was brought in, with Lewington becoming his assistant.
Lewington had spells as caretaker manager at Fulham in 1991 and 1994, before joining Crystal Palace as a coach, becoming assistant to Alan Smith as Palace were relegated from the Premiership.Brentford were taken over by former Palace owner Ron Noades in 1998, Brentford's "chairman-manager" brought in Lewington as a Coach. After Noades relinquished his team-selection duties in 2000, Lewington was appointed as manager of Brentford, taking them to a losing appearance in the Football League Trophy final in 2001 and guiding them to 14th in Division Two. He left at the end of the 2000–01 season to become Gianluca Vialli's reserve team manager at Watford: a difficult role, as Vialli never let any first-team players play for the reserve side.
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