Joe Fagan

Joe Fagan
Personal information
Full name	Joseph Fagan
Date of birth	12 March 1921
Place of birth	Liverpool, England
Date of death	30 June 2001 (age 80)
Place of death	Liverpool, England
Playing position	Defender
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1938-1951 1951-1953 1953	Manchester City Nelson Bradford Park Avenue	148 (2) 003 (0)
Teams managed
1951-1954 1954-1958 1983-1985	Nelson Rochdale Liverpool
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Joe Fagan (12 March 1921 in Liverpool – 30 June 2001) was an English football manager best known for being manager of Liverpool F.C. from 1983 to 1985. He managed the side that won Liverpool's fourth European Cup in 1984. He died in 2001, aged 80, after a long illness.

Career

Joe Fagan's playing career was largely spent at Manchester City for whom he signed in 1938. The outbreak of the Second World War curtailed a meaningful career but he was a member of the side that achieved promotion to the first division in 1946 -1947 season.

Fagan began his managerial career at Nelson F.C. in the Lancashire Combination as player-manager, where he led the club to the Championship in his first season in 1952, with the club narrowly missing out on re-election to the Football League. He moved on to become Rochdale A.F.C. manager in 1954, before joining Liverpool as a coach in 1958.

When Bill Shankly retired as Liverpool manager in 1974, his assistant and then successor Bob Paisley appointed Fagan as his assistant in turn. Following Paisley's retirement in 1983, Fagan finally took over on a two-year contract at the start of the 1983-84 season.

Fagan was particularly notable for buying Jan Mølby, a Danish midfielder who became an outstanding player for Liverpool, and for being the first manager to win a 'treble' (three major trophies in a season) with an English club. Only Alex Ferguson and Gérard Houllier have since managed this feat. Fagan, however, won the 'treble' in his first season as Liverpool's manager. Fagan's original two-year contract would have taken him up to the end of the 1984-85 season, and it seemed unlikely that he would extend his contract beyond that date—as he would have been 64 years old.

On May 29, 1985, just hours before the Heysel Stadium disaster, Fagan announced he would retire, and was succeeded by leading Scottish and Liverpool forward Kenny Dalglish.

Career honours

Player

• 1946-47 Football League Second Division Promotion (Level 2) with Manchester City

Manager (all with Liverpool)

• Winner
  • 1983-84 League Cup
  • 1983-84 League Championship (Level 1)
  • 1983-84 European Cup
• Runner-up
  • 1983-84 Charity Shield
  • 1984-85 Charity Shield
  • 1984-85 Intercontinental Cup
  • 1984-85 European Super Cup
  • 1984-85 League Championship (Level 1)
  • 1984-85 European Cup

External links

• Joe Fagan website
• LFC Online profile
• Manager profile at LFChistory.net

Preceded by Ernst Happel

European Cup Winning Coach 1983-84

Succeeded by Giovanni Trapattoni

v • d • e Liverpool F.C. – Managers Barclay and McKenna (1892–96) • Watson (1896–1915) • Ashworth (1919–23) • McQueen (1923–28) • Patterson (1928–36) • Kay (1936–51) • Welsh (1951–56) • Taylor (1956–59) • Shankly (1959–74) • Paisley (1974–83) • Fagan (1983–85) • Dalglish (1985–91) • Souness (1991–94) • Evans (1994–98) • Evans and Houllier (1998) • Houllier (1998–2004) • Benítez (2004–)

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