Terry Skiverton

Terence John Skiverton (born 26 June 1975) is an English former footballer who enjoyed a long playing career at Yeovil Town for 11 years, appearing 382 times in all competitions, before becoming their manager and subsequently, assistant manager, manager and then assistant manager again. He is currently assistant manager at EFL League Two club AFC Wimbledon.

Terry Skiverton
Skiverton at Yeovil Town training in 2020
Personal information
Full name Terence John Skiverton [1]
Date of birth (1975-06-26) 26 June 1975[2]
Place of birth Mile End, England
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[1]
Position(s) Centre-back
Team information
Current team
 AFC Wimbledon (assistant manager)
Youth career
1991–1993 Chelsea
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1996 Chelsea 0 (0)
1995 → Sandefjord BK (loan) 3 (0)
1995–1996 → Wycombe Wanderers (loan) 10 (1)
1996–1997 Wycombe Wanderers 10 (1)
1997–1999 Welling United 73 (4)
1999–2010 Yeovil Town 328 (38)
Total 424 (44)
International career
2002–2003 England Semi-Pro 4 (0)
Managerial career
2009–2012 Yeovil Town
2012–2015 Yeovil Town (assistant manager)
2015 Yeovil Town (caretaker)
2015–2018 Yeovil Town (assistant manager)
2019–2022 Yeovil Town (academy head of coaching)
2019–2022 Yeovil Town (assistant manager)
2022 Charlton Athletic (first-team coach)
2022– AFC Wimbledon (assistant manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

As a player, Skiverton played as a centre-back. He started his career at Chelsea, failing to make a first-team appearance but made many reserve appearances, making Captain of the reserve team before moving to Wycombe Wanderers – initially on loan – and then dropping out of the football league by moving to Welling United. He finally retired with Yeovil in 2010. As captain, Skiverton took Yeovil into the Football League for the first time in their history. While playing for Yeovil in the Conference he was called up several times for the England Semi-Pro side and made four appearances.

Playing career

Skiverton was born in Mile End, London, and began his career as a trainee at Chelsea, but never made the first team. After a loan spell he made the permanent move to Wycombe Wanderers in 1996, and a year later dropped out of league football to join Welling United. He also had a short spell in Norway in 1995, playing for Sandefjord Ballklubb in Norwegian First Division.

He joined Yeovil from Welling in 1999, and was a key part of the club, playing at centre-back as they gained promotions from the Football Conference up to Football League One.

After joining Yeovil he gained cult status with the fans and is a hero at the club, playing over 300 league games before becoming player-manager of the club. Skiverton announced his retirement from playing on 9 May 2010 after appearing 382 times and scoring 42 goals in all competitions making him Yeovil's tenth most-capped post-war player. He even played in goal to cover for the injured Steve Mildenhall in a game against Leyton Orient in September 2007. He conceded no goals after coming on to the pitch.[3]

Skiverton made what was expected to be his final appearance ever as a player in Darren Way's Benefit match against Manchester United Reserves.

Coaching career

Yeovil Town

On 18 February 2009 Skiverton was named as Yeovil's player-manager after the club had parted company with Russell Slade earlier in the week.[4] He succeeded in keeping Yeovil in League One with a series of good home results finishing in 17th place with 51 points.

On 9 May 2010, after only appearing as a player twice since his appointment he relinquished his playing duties and became just a manager.

In January 2011, Skiverton was nominated for the Football League's Manager of the Month award but he subsequently lost out to Rochdale manager Keith Hill, and on 26 February 2011, Skiverton took charge of his 100th match as Yeovil manager in a 1 – 0 win away to Tranmere Rovers.

On 9 January 2012, Skiverton stood down as manager, with former Yeovil boss Gary Johnson returning for his second spell in charge. Skiverton took on the role of assistant manager.

On 4 February 2015, after Johnson was relieved of his role as manager Skiverton was once again promoted back to acting first team manager.[5] After only winning two of his thirteen matches in charge Skiverton was demoted back to assistant manager with the club appointing Paul Sturrock as the club's new first team manager.[6]

On 15 January 2022, Skiverton left his position assistant manager at Yeovil Town.[7]

Charlton Athletic

On 18 January 2022, Skiverton was appointed as First-Team Coach at Charlton Athletic.[8]

On 3 May 2022, Skiverton left his role at Charlton Athletic following the departure of first-team manager Johnnie Jackson on the same day.[9]

AFC Wimbledon

On 16 May 2022, Skiverton was appointed as assistant manager at AFC Wimbledon joining his former Charlton Athletic manager Johnnie Jackson at the club.[10]

Managerial statistics
As of 9 April 2015[11]
Team From To Record
GWDLWin %[A]
Yeovil Town 18 February 2009 9 January 2012 144 38 41 65 026.39
Yeovil Town 4 February 2015 9 April 2015 13 2 2 9 015.38
Total 157 40 43 74 025.48
A. ^ The "Win %" column is rounded to two decimal places.

Personal life

While at Welling, and at Yeovil until the club turned professional, Skiverton appeared on Dream Team on the staff of Harchester United.[2]

Honours

Yeovil Town

Individual

References
  1. Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2009). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2009–10. Mainstream Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84596-474-0.
  2. "Terry Skiverton Profile". Ciderspace. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
  3. "Yeovil 0-1 Leyton Orient". BBC. 15 September 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  4. "Skiverton named Yeovil boss". BBC Sport. 18 February 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2009.
  5. "Gary Johnson: Yeovil manager sacked by League One club". BBC Sport. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  6. "Paul Sturrock: Yeovil Town confirm manager appointment". BBC Sport. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  7. "CLUB NEWS : Terry Skiverton to depart Huish Park". Yeovil Town official website. 15 January 2022. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  8. "Terry Skiverton appointed as First-Team Coach". Charlton Athletic official website. 18 January 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  9. "Terry Skiverton departs as First-Team Coach". Charlton Athletic official website. 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  10. "The wait is over! New manager confirmed". AFC Wimbledon. 16 May 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  11. "Terry Skiverton's managerial career". Soccerbase. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  12. "Yeovil lift FA Trophy". BBC Sport. 12 May 2002. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  13. Rollin, Glenda; Rollin, Jack, eds. (2003). Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2003–2004. London: Headline Publishing Group. pp. 620, 624. ISBN 978-0-7553-1228-3.
  14. "Conference end of season awards". ConfGuide.com. 14 June 2003. Archived from the original on 2 July 2003. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
  15. "Ronaldo secures PFA awards double". BBC Sport. 22 April 2007. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
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