Kenny Jackett (Wolves Head Coach)

Kenny Jackett 
Head Coach 

As a player, Kenny Jackett was the archetypal one-club man, displaying a loyalty which has remained throughout his footballing career by making 337 league appearances for his home town club Watford, scoring 25 goals.

He was a key part of the Hornets side which finished runners-up in the top flight in the 1982/83 season and appeared in the defeat to Everton in the 1984 FA Cup Final.

Jackett also picked up 31 caps for Wales.

A knee injury brought an early end to his career at the age of 28 in 1990, but he remained with Watford in coaching roles, going on to be both Head Coach and assistant manager to Graham Taylor.

As assistant to Taylor, Jackett helped mastermind 2 successive promotions up to the Barclays Premier League in the 1999/2000 campaign.

After leaving Watford at the end of the 2000/01 season, Jackett worked as assistant to Ian Holloway at Queen’s Park Rangers, again playing a part in a promotion, this time from League One.

It was in 2004 that Jackett joined Swansea where he is credited with beginning the reversal in fortunes that has seen the Welsh side now established in the Premier League and winning the Capital One Cup in the 2012/13 season.

His first season saw Swansea win promotion from League Two, before losing on penalties against Barnsley in the League One play-off final the following year, although there was consolation in winning the Football League Trophy, beating Carlisle at the Millennium Stadium.

Jackett departed Swansea in February, 2007, after which Roberto Martinez took over, and after a spell as reserve team coach at Manchester City was soon back in the hotseat at Millwall in November, 2007.

And, as with Swansea, when he left Millwall in the summer of 2013 he did so with the club in a far better condition than when he joined.

In the 2008/09 season the Lions were beaten League One play-off finalists against Scunthorpe but 12 months later they made no mistake, beating Swindon in the final at Wembley.

Three successive seasons in the Championship with Millwall including a play-off push in the first – and FA Cup semi final in the last – as Jackett’s Lions were edged out by eventual winners Wigan at Millwall in April, 2013.

Jackett’s resignation at the New Den's club was accepted at the end of the 2012/13 season after he stated he was looking for a new challenge after 5-and-a-half years with the Club.

By that stage he was the longest serving manager in the Championship and sixth longest throughout the four divisions.
After a rigorous recruitment process it was Jackett who came through to be named as Wolves’ Head Coach on May 31, 2013, being officially introduced at a press conference on June 3.

Jackett revealed he was both “proud and delighted” at landing the role, and vowed to prove himself to the Wolves fans as he aimed to bring back more successful times after back-to-back relegations. 

And that he did in his very first season, leading Wolves to the Sky Bet League One title with the team breaking several club and league records along the way. He was named as the Joint League One Manager of the Year by the LMA along with Leyton Orient's Russell Slade. 

In the following 2014/15 campaign, Wolves marked their return to the Championship by just missing out on the play-offs, denied only by goal difference. 

During the season he also became the quickest ever Wolves gaffer to chalk up 50 league victories, coming from his first 86 games at the helm.