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Colin Todd
Personal information
Date of birth	12 December 1948 (1948-12-12) (age 59)
Place of birth	Chester-le-Street, England
Playing position	Central defender
Club information
Current club	Randers FC (manager)
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1966–1971 1971–1978 1978–1979 1979–1982 1982–1984 1984 1984 1984	Sunderland Derby County Everton Birmingham City Nottingham Forest Oxford United Vancouver Whitecaps Luton Town	173 0(3) 293 0(6) 032 0(1) 093 0(0) 036 0(0) 012 0(0) 008 0(0) 002 0(0)
National team
1972–1977	England	027 0(0)
Teams managed
1990–1991 1995–1999 2000 2001–2002 2004–2007 2007–	Middlesbrough Bolton Wanderers Swindon Town Derby County Bradford City Randers FC
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Colin Todd (born 12 December 1948 in Chester-le-Street) is an English football manager and former player. He is manager of Danish Superliga side Randers FC. His son, Andy, is also a footballer.

As a player, he is best remembered for winning two Football League titles with Derby County during the 1970s. He was capped by England on 27 occasions.

His biggest managerial success so far came in 1997 when he took Bolton Wanderers to the Division One title with 98 points and 100 goals, although he was unable to establish them in the Premier League.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Managerial career 2.1 Middlesbrough 2.2 Bolton Wanderers 2.3 Swindon Town 2.4 Derby County 2.5 Bradford City 2.6 Randers 3 Managerial stats 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Playing career

As a player, he won two league titles with Derby County in the early to mid-seventies. Well regarded in English football circles, he won the PFA Players' Player of the Year award in 1975. He also played for Sunderland, Everton, Birmingham, Nottingham Forest, and Oxford United. He won 27 England caps.

[edit] Managerial career

[edit] Middlesbrough

Todd entered management in March 1990 with Middlesbrough, succeeding Bruce Rioch. He had coached the club from the Third Division to First Division in successive seasons but on taking the manager's job, Middlesbrough were struggling in the Second Division and facing the real threat of moving from the Third to First Division and back again in successive seasons. Todd kept the club in the Second Division and they qualified for the play-offs a year later, although they were denied the chance of promotion after losing to eventual winners Notts County in the semi-finals and Todd quit soon afterwards.

[edit] Bolton Wanderers

He moved on to Bolton Wanderers in 1992 as assistant to his predecessor at Middlesbrough, Bruce Rioch. After Rioch left to manage Arsenal, having achieved promotion in the 1994–95 season, McFarland moved to Bolton as joint-manager alongside Todd.

Bolton struggled to cope with the Premier League and McFarland was dismissed in early 1996, leaving Todd in sole charge. He was unable to prevent Bolton's relegation but guided back to the top-flight by winning the First Division in the 1996–97 season, ensuring Bolton's new stadium would host Premier League football. Despite strengthening the squad with new signings, Bolton struggled in the top flight and were relegated again at the end of the season. Todd led the club to the play-off final in 1999 but lost to Watford, and he resigned seven games into the 1999–2000 season following the sale of Per Frandsen to Blackburn Rovers.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Swindon Town

Todd returned to management with Swindon Town. His spell at Swindon was unsuccessful as poor results meant the club faced a relegation battle when it had been hoped to gain promotion. Todd won only five out of twenty games with the club.

[edit] Derby County

Todd resigned as Swindon manager in November 2000 in order to return to Derby as assistant manager to Jim Smith. When Smith resigned in October 2001 Todd was promoted to manager^[1] but he was sacked after just three months having failed to improve the struggling club's form.^[2]

[edit] Bradford City

Todd joined Bradford City in 2003 as assistant to manager Bryan Robson. When Robson left at the end of the 2003–04 season, Todd was named his successor.^[3] It was the fourth time he had been promoted from assistant to manager. He became the longest serving Bradford manager for twenty years, and led the club to several mid-table finishes. After only winning once in ten games, Todd was sacked in February 2007.^[4] Shortly afterwards, the club was relegated to League Two and Todd pointed to the departure of key players and lack of funds for new signings as reasons for Bradford's demise.^[5]

[edit] Randers

Todd became manager of Danish side Randers FC in the summer of 2007, replacing the former Danish European Champion Lars Olsen who had signed with Odense Boldklub.^[5]

[edit] Managerial stats

Last updated December 19th 2007.

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Middlesbrough		March 9, 1990	June 24, 1991	70	28	26	16	40.00
Bolton Wanderers		June 20, 1995	January 2, 1996	28	5	16	7	17.85
Bolton Wanderers		January 2, 1996	September 22, 1999	183	79	51	53	43.16
Swindon Town		May 4, 2000	November 1, 2000	20	5	9	6	25.00
Derby County		October 8, 2001	January 14, 2002	17	4	11	2	23.52
Bradford City		June 18, 2004	February 12, 2007	139	44	49	46	31.65
Randers FC		June 18, 2007	present	18	7	5	6	38.8

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• bbc.co.uk biography
• Colin Todd management career stats at Soccerbase

Awards
Preceded by Norman Hunter	PFA Players' Player of the Year 1975	Succeeded by Pat Jennings

v • d • e Middlesbrough F.C. – Managers J.Robson (1899–1905) • Mackie (1905–06) • Aitken (1906–09) • Gunter (1909–10) • Walker (1910–11) • McIntosh (secretary) (1911–19) • Howie (1920–23) • Bamlett (1923–26) • McWilliam (1927–34) • Gillow (1934–44) • Jack (1944–52) • Rowley (1952–54) • Dennison (1954–63) • Carter (1963–66) • Anderson (1966–73) • Charlton (1973–77) • Neal (1977–81) • Murdoch (1981–82) • Allison (1982–84) • Maddren (1984–86) • Rioch (1986–90) • Todd (1990–91) • Lawrence (1991–94) • B.Robson (1994–2001) • Venables (2000–2001) • McClaren (2001–06) • Southgate (2006–)

v • d • e Bolton Wanderers F.C. – Managers Mather (1915–19) • Foweraker (1919–44) • Rowley (1944–50) • Ridding (1950–68) • Lofthouse (1968–70) • McIlroy (1970) • Meadows (1970) • Lofthouse (1971) • Armfield (1971–74) • Greaves (1974–80) • Anderson (1980–81) • Mulhall (1981–82) • McGovern (1982–85) • Wright (1985) • Neal (1985–92) • Rioch (1992–95) • McFarland (1995–96) • Todd (1996–99) • Allardyce (1999–2007) • Lee (2007) • Megson (2007–)

v • d • e Swindon Town F.C. – Managers S. Allen (1902–1933) • Vizard (1933–1939) • Harris (1939–1940) • Page (1945–1953) • Lindley (1953–1955) • Head (1956–1965) • D. Williams (1965–1969) • Ford (1969–1971) • Mackay (1971–1972) • L. Allen (1972–1974) • D. Williams (1974–1978) • Smith (1978–1980) • Trollope (1980–1983) • Beamish (1983–1984) • Macari (1984–1989) • Ardiles (1989–1991) • Hoddle (1991–1993) • Gorman (1993–1994) • McMahon (1994–1998) • Quinn (1998–2000) • Todd (2000) • King (2000–2001) • Evans (2001) • King (2001–2005) • Onuora (2005–2006) • Wise (2006) • A. Williams (2006c) • Sturrock (2006–07) • Malpas (2008–) (c) caretaker

v • d • e Derby County F.C. – Managers Newbould (1896–1906) • Methven (1906–22) • Potter (1922–25) • Jobey (1925–41) • Magner (1944–46) • McMillan (1946–53) • Barker (1953–55) • Storer, Jr. (1955–62) • Ward (1962–67) • Clough (1967–73) • Mackay (1973–76) • Murphy (1976–77) • Docherty (1977–79) • Addison (1979–82) • Newman (1982) • Taylor (1982–84) • McFarland (1984) • Cox (1984–93) • McFarland (1993–95) • McEwan (1995) • Smith (1995–2001) • Todd (2001–02) • McEwan (2002) • Gregory (2002–03) • Lillis (2003) • Burley (2003–05) • Brown (2005–06) • Westley (2006) • Davies (2006–07) • Jewell (2007–)

v • d • e Bradford City A.F.C. – Managers Campbell (1903–05) • O'Rourke (1905–21) • Menzies (1921–26) • Veitch (1926–28) • Foster (1928) • O'Rourke (1928–30) • Peart (1930–35) • Ray (1935–37) • Westgarth (1938–43) • Sharp (1943–46) • Barker (1946–47) • Milburn (1947–48) • Steele (1948–52) • A Harris (52) • Powell (1952–55) • Jackson (1955–61) • Brocklebank (1961–64) • B Harris (1965–66) • Watson (1966–67) • Hair (1967–68) • McAnearney & Hallett (1968) • Wheeler (1968–71) • Wilson (1971) • Edwards (1971–75) • Kennedy (1975–78) • Napier (1978) • Mulhall (1978–81) • McFarland (1981–82) • Cherry (1982–87) • Dolan (1987–89) • Yorath (1989–90) • Docherty (1990–91) • Stapleton (1991–94) • Lawrence (1994–95) • Kamara (1995–98) • Jewell (1998–2000) • Hutchings (2000) • McCall (2000) • Jefferies (2000–01) • Smith (2001) • Law (2002–03) • Four senior players (2003) • Robson (2003–04) • Todd (2004–07) • Wetherall (2007) • McCall (2007–)

v • d • e Randers FC – Managers Olsen (2003–07) • Todd (2007–)

v • d • e Randers FC – current squad 1 Stuhr Ellegaard • 3 R. Pedersen • 4 Ahmed • 5 Frederiksen • 6 Behi • 7 John • 8 S. Pedersen • 9 Nguyen • 10 Berg • 12 Damborg • 13 Holdgaard • 14 K.M. Pedersen • 15 Hansen • 16 Fredgaard • 18 Buval • 19 Ousager • 20 Brandrup • 24 Arzumanyan • 25 Friis Jensen • 30 Nygaard • 31 Sane • 32 Christensen • -- Olesen • Manager: Todd