Tony Walmsley

Tony Walmsley is a Performance Coach, Founder of The Leaders Advisory with a wealth of knowledge from the world of top-level sport.

Tony Walmsley
Personal information
Date of birth (1966-05-10) 10 May 1966
Place of birth Manchester, England
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Riverside Olympic
Managerial career
2009–2012 Central Coast Mariners (youth)
2012–2013 Sheffield United (Head of Academy Recruitment)
2015–2016 Central Coast Mariners
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

In 25 years in football, he won league titles, national championships and held head roles in the A-League, The Olympic Athletes Programme, and for Manchester United and Tranmere Rovers in Oceania and China, respectively.

Tony has transitioned from prominent sporting roles into business leadership positions in the technical supply chain and engineering sectors, as well as working in the customer engagement and technology fields.

These experiences in sport and business have given Tony the expertise to help individuals and teams perform with clarity, maturity and decisiveness in key moments.

The Leaders Advisory

Career

Tony Walmsley started his coaching career in 1989 when he served as player/coach for Riverside Olympic in Tasmania.[1][2] winning two League Cups, and the Night Series over two seasons, before joining George Town United, becoming Player of the Year in 1990. Walmsley joined Football Tasmania in the Role of Development Officer during which time he Coached the Tasmanian State Under 15 team to third position in the National Championships, leading to his appointment as the inaugural Head Coach of the NSW Intensive Training Centre and Olympic Athletes Program, steering the Women's team to a National Championship and assisting with the Australian National Team under Tom Sermanni.

As a coach educator with Football Australia Walmsley took up a position as regional Director of Coaching in Queensland. In subsequent years Walmsley served as Academy Director for the Manchester United Youth Development Programme in Oceania.[3] He was then appointed the manager of Central Coast Mariners youth team for three seasons, where his team never finished outside the top two and won the A-League National Youth League in the 2011–12 season.[4] In September 2012 he became the Head of Academy Recruitment for English League One side Sheffield United's youth team.[5][6]

Walmsley was appointed as Technical Director of the Mariners on 19 February 2015 [7] and caretaker head coach of the Mariners from 6 March 2015.

On 15 April 2015 Walmsley was announced as Mariners permanent Technical Director/Head Coach for the 2015–16 season.[8]

Under Walmsley, the Mariners had their worst A-League performance to date in the 2015–16 season. The Mariners' 13 points, the fewest in club history, resulted in a last-place finish, and they set a league record by losing 20 games while winning only 3, a record low for the Mariners. Central Coast allowed 70 goals, the most in league history, and had a goal difference of −37, the worst by an A-League team. The Mariners' totals of goals conceded at home and away (32 and 38 respectively) were also A-League records, and they went the entire season without a clean sheet.[9]

In the 2016 FFA Cup, the Mariners suffered a 2–1 loss to Green Gully SC at Green Gully Reserve, becoming just the second A-League team to be eliminated by a state league team in the FFA Cup.[10] As a result of the last placed finish in the 2015–16 season, and the Mariners' elimination from the 2016 FFA Cup, Walmsley was sacked by the Mariners on 8 August 2016,[11][12] with coaching duties in the leadup to the 2016–17 season taken up by assistant coach John Hutchinson in a caretaker role.[13] Walmsley was eventually succeeded by Australia national under-20 soccer team manager Paul Okon.

Managerial statistics
As of 19 December 2016.
Team Nat From To Record
GWDLWin %
Central Coast Mariners Australia 19 February 2015 8 August 2016 37 5 5 27 013.51
Total 37 5 5 27 013.51

References
  1. "History « Riverside Olympic Senior Website". Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  2. "Life just below the top flight in 1989 | January | 2010". Archived from the original on 3 February 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  3. "Tony Walmsley to join Sheffield United". footballaustralia.com. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  4. "Walmsley to leave Central Coast for Sheffield United". tribalfootball.com. 21 September 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  5. "Cautious Danny Wilson playing safe with Blades kids". The Sheffield Star. 25 September 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  6. "Academy make key appointments". Sheffield United FC Official Web Site. 25 September 2012. Archived from the original on 28 September 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  7. "Mariners enter stage one of restructure". Football Federation Australia. 19 February 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  8. "CLUB STATEMENT: Tony Walmsley appointed as Head Coach". Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  9. Way, Peter (8 August 2016). "Central Coast Mariners in crisis as they sack Tony Walmsley". The Daily Telegraph.
  10. Prichard, Greg. "Green Gully bask in FFA Cup glory". The World Game. Special Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  11. Way, Peter (8 August 2016). "Central Coast Mariners in crisis as they sack Tony Walmsley". The Daily Telegraph.
  12. "Central Coast Mariners sack coach Tony Walmsley after FFA Cup debacle". The Guardian. 8 August 2016.
  13. "Mariners Part Ways with Tony Walmsley". Central Coast Mariners. 8 August 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
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