Garry Monk

Garry Alan Monk (born 6 March 1979) is an English football manager and former player. He has managed EFL Championship club Middlesbrough since 2017. He played for Torquay United, Southampton, Barnsley and Swansea City. He has previously been the manager of Swansea and Leeds United.

Garry Monk

Monk playing for Swansea City in 2010
Personal information
Full name	Garry Alan Monk[1]
Date of birth	(1979-03-06) 6 March 1979 (age 46)[1]
Place of birth	Bedford, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1]
Position(s)	Centre back
Youth career
0000–1995	Torquay United
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1995–1996	Torquay United	5	(0)
1996–2004	Southampton	11	(0)
1998	→ Torquay United (loan)	6	(0)
1999	→ Stockport County (loan)	2	(0)
2001	→ Oxford United (loan)	5	(0)
2002–2003	→ Sheffield Wednesday (loan)	15	(0)
2003–2004	→ Barnsley (loan)	14	(0)
2004	Barnsley	3	(0)
2004–2014	Swansea City	226	(3)
Total		287	(3)
Managerial career
2014–2015	Swansea City
2016–2017	Leeds United
2017	Middlesbrough
2018–2019	Birmingham City
2019–2020	Sheffield Wednesday
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Playing career

Garry played for Torquay United Academy until 1995, and began playing for the first team before leaving for Southampton the next year.^[2] He rarely played for The Saints and went out on loan to Torquay, Stockport County, Oxford United and Sheffield Wednesday. He also played on loan for Barnsley, before joining permanently in January 2004.

He left for Swansea City in Summer 2004, and stayed there for ten years. Garry was captain for a while, but retired from football in 2004.

Managerial career

Garry started managing Swansea City as their interim player-manager after Michael Laudrup was given the sack.^[3] He was good and Swansea were not relegated to the Championship.^[4] He became the main manager the next season,^[5] and they played well and finished eighth.^[6] Garry was not good at the beginning of the next season, and was sacked in Christmas time 2015.^[7]

He was manager of Leeds United from 2016 to 2017, where they finished seventh; he resigned from his job despite the club wanting him to stay.^[8][9]

Garry became the manager of Middlesbrough in 2017.^[10]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			FA Cup		League Cup		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Torquay United	1995–96[11]	Third Division	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
Southampton	1996–97[12]	Premier League	0	0	0	0	0	0	—		0	0
	1997–98[13]	Premier League	0	0	0	0	0	0	—		0	0
	1998–99[14]	Premier League	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
	1999–2000[15]	Premier League	2	0	—		0	0	—		2	0
	2000–01[16]	Premier League	2	0	0	0	0	0	—		2	0
	2001–02[17]	Premier League	2	0	0	0	1	0	—		3	0
	2002–03[18]	Premier League	1	0	0	0	0	0	—		1	0
	2003–04[19]	Premier League	0	0	—		0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total		11	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	13	0
Torquay United (loan)	1998–99[14]	Third Division	6	0	—		—		—		6	0
Stockport County (loan)	1999–2000[15]	First Division	2	0	—		2	0	—		4	0
Oxford United (loan)	2000–01[16]	Second Division	5	0	—		—		—		5	0
Sheffield Wednesday (loan)	2002–03[18]	First Division	15	0	0	0	—		—		15	0
Barnsley	2003–04[19]	Second Division	17	0	4	1	—		—		21	1
Swansea City	2004–05[20]	League Two	34	0	4	0	1	0	2[a]	0	41	0
	2005–06[21]	League One	33	1	0	0	0	0	9[b]	1	42	2
	2006–07[22]	League One	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
	2007–08[23]	League One	32	1	3	0	2	0	6[a]	0	43	1
	2008–09[24]	Championship	40	1	3	0	3	0	—		46	1
	2009–10[25]	Championship	23	0	1	0	2	1	—		26	1
	2010–11[26]	Championship	29	0	1	1	3	0	3[c]	0	36	1
	2011–12[27]	Premier League	16	0	2	0	0	0	—		18	0
	2012–13[28]	Premier League	11	0	0	0	4	1	—		15	1
	2013–14[29]	Premier League	0	0	0	0	1	0	—		1	0
	Total		220	3	14	1	16	2	20	1	270	7
Career total			281	3	19	2	19	2	20	1	339	8

1. Appearances in Football League Trophy
2. Six appearances and one goal in Football League Trophy, three appearances in League One play-offs
3. Appearances in Championship play-offs

Managerial statistics

As of 9 November 2020

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	From	To	Record					Ref.
			P	W	D	L	Win %
Swansea City	4 February 2014	9 December 2015	77	28	17	32	036.4	[30]
Leeds United	2 June 2016	25 May 2017	53	25	11	17	047.2	[30]
Middlesbrough	9 June 2017	23 December 2017	26	12	5	9	046.2	<[31][32][30]
Birmingham City	4 March 2018	18 June 2019	59	19	20	20	032.2	[30]
Sheffield Wednesday	6 September 2019	9 November 2020	58	18	15	25	031.0	[30]
Total			273	102	68	103	037.4

Honours

Player

Swansea City

• Football League Championship play-offs: 2011^[33]
• Football League One: 2007–08^[1]
• Football League Cup: 2012–13^[34]
• Football League Trophy: 2005–06^[1]
• FAW Premier Cup: 2004–05,^[35] 2005–06^[36]

Individual

• PFA Team of the Year: 2007–08 League One^[37]

Manager

Individual

• Premier League Manager of the Month: August 2014^[38]