Liam Manning — Career, clubs & managerial record
Liam Manning
Norwich City· EFL Championship · 
England · Age 40
73/ 100
Solid
51st percentile of covered managers
Career snapshot
Age
40
4 NOV 1985
Appointed
2 NOV 2025
Tenure
11M
11 months
Contractⓘ
Until 30 June 2029
Three-and-a-half-year agreement
Senior managerial experienceⓘ
6 years, 2 months
Since 6 JAN 2020
In coaching
11 years, 8 months
Includes academy & assistant roles
Season: 2026/27Competition: EFL ChampionshipUpdated: Updated todaySource: GafferLens editorial review — appointment, contract and career dates manually verified to the 21 August 2026 baseline
Career summary
- Age
- 40
- Contract
- Until 2029
- Current club
- Norwich City
- Senior managerial experience
- 6 years, 2 months
- Total coaching experience
- 11 years, 8 months
- Senior spells
- Not publicly confirmed
- Matches (recorded)
- Not publicly confirmed
- W–D–L (recorded)
- Not publicly confirmed
- Win rate / PPG
- Not publicly confirmed
Honours
None recordedHonours are listed only once verified against a licensed source.
Career record
GafferLens holds no verified senior managerial record for Liam Manning yet. Totals appear once a full-spell results record has been checked against a licensed source — development-team and coaching-pathway roles are never counted as senior management.
Club spells
Verified GafferLens chronology — classify spells in the admin to edit them live
West Ham United
Academy coach · 2014–2018
Match record for this spell is not yet verified.
Formation: —New York City FC
Academy director · 2018–2019
Coaching pathway role — team results are not attributed to non-head-coach positions.
Formation: —Lommel SK
Head coach · 2020–2021
Match record for this spell is not yet verified.
Formation: —MK Dons
Head coach · 2021–2022
Match record for this spell is not yet verified.
Formation: —Oxford United
Head coach · 2023–2023
Match record for this spell is not yet verified.
Formation: —Bristol City
Head coach · 2023–2025
Match record for this spell is not yet verified.
Formation: —Norwich City
Head coach · 2025–present
Match record for this spell is not yet verified.
Formation: —
- Senior management
- 6 years, 2 months
- Total management
- 6 years, 2 months
- Total coaching
- 11 years, 8 months
- Current club tenure
- 11 months
Career passport
Shirts are original GafferLens club-identity visuals — not replica kits, badges or sponsors.
Methodology & data freshness
GafferScore 0.4 (provisional editorial) · tactical model 0.3 (prototype model) · rankings updated 2026-08-17. Form window: Last 10 competitive matches, recency weighted.
Updated today · Confidence MEDIUM · Source: GafferLens editorial review — appointment, contract and career dates manually verified to the 21 August 2026 baseline
Image credits
Visual: GafferLens generic Norwich City shirt — an original unbranded illustration using traditional club colours. No licensed photograph verified for Liam Manning (status: PLACEHOLDER).