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{{Short description|English football player and manager (born 1946)}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Stan Ternent
| image =
| fullname = Francis Stanley Ternent<ref name="PFA 605">{{cite book
 | last = Hugman
 | first = Barry&nbsp;J.
 | title = The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946–2005
 | publisher = Queen Anne Press
 | year = 2005
 | page = 605
 | isbn = 1-85291-665-6 }}</ref>
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1946|6|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Gateshead]], England
| position = [[Midfielder]]
| years1 = 1966–1968
| years2 = 1968–1974
| years3 = 1974
| clubs1 = [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]] 
| clubs2 = [[Carlisle United F.C.|Carlisle United]] 
| clubs3 = [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]]
| caps1 = 5
| caps2 = 188
| caps3 = 0
| goals1 = 0
| goals2 = 5
| goals3 = 0
| totalcaps = 193
| totalgoals = 5
| manageryears1 = 1979–1980
| manageryears2 = 1989–1991
| manageryears3 = 1995–1998
| manageryears4 = 1998–2004
| manageryears5 = 2004–2005
| manageryears6 = 2008
| managerclubs1 = [[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]]
| managerclubs2 = [[Hull City A.F.C.|Hull City]]
| managerclubs3 = [[Bury F.C.|Bury]]
| managerclubs4 = [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]]
| managerclubs5 = [[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]]
| managerclubs6 = [[Huddersfield Town A.F.C.|Huddersfield Town]]
}}
'''Francis Stanley Ternent''' (born 16 June 1946) is an English former [[association football|footballer]] and manager. He managed [[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]], [[Hull City A.F.C.|Hull City]], [[Bury F.C.|Bury]], [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]], [[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]] and [[Huddersfield Town A.F.C.|Huddersfield Town]]. He was a [[scout (sport)|scout]] for [[Hull City A.F.C.|Hull City]] until January 2017. As a manager, he won three promotions between 1996 and 2000, including two in succession (from Division Three to Division One) with Bury. The other came with Burnley in 1999–2000.

==Playing career==
Born in Gateshead, Ternent signed as an apprentice for [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]] after being spotted by scout Jack Hixon. Ternent found first team opportunities limited at Burnley and was transferred to [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]] [[Carlisle United F.C.|Carlisle United]], where he gained a reputation as a hard tackling midfielder. Carlisle won promotion to the [[Football League First Division|First Division]] at the end of the 1973–74 season, but Ternent had suffered a serious knee injury earlier that season. Despite an attempted comeback with [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]] the following season, Ternent was forced to retire from playing later in 1974, at the age of 28.

==Managerial career==
Upon retiring, he became a coach at Sunderland, firstly, then [[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]], assisting [[Bob Stokoe]]. Ternent himself became manager of the Tangerines in 1979, his first such role, and Blackpool's sixth manager in a decade.

Immediately upon his appointment at [[Bloomfield Road]], Ternent began to reshape the team, spending large sums on new players. [[Jack Ashurst]] was purchased from Sunderland for a then-club-record £132,400. Fellow newcomers included [[Dave Bamber]], [[Colin Morris (footballer)|Colin Morris]], [[Peter Noble (footballer)|Peter Noble]] and [[Tom McAlister]]. Despite the fresh faces, the Seasiders' fortunes did not improve, and by early 1980 they were in the bottom half of the [[Football League Third Division|Third Division]]. Ternent was sacked on 1 February 1980, at the time becoming the club's shortest-serving manager in their history.

He was part of the coaching staff at [[Bradford City A.F.C.|Bradford City]] and served as assistant manager to [[Steve Coppell]] at [[Crystal Palace F.C.|Crystal Palace]] before his next role as manager came nine years later, at [[Hull City A.F.C.|Hull City]] from 1989 to 1991. He lost his job in January 1991, a few months before the club suffered relegation from the Second Division. From 1991 to 1993 he was assistant manager to [[Ian Porterfield]] and then [[David Webb (footballer)|David Webb]] at [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] before again being made redundant.

Ternent was not out of the game for long. He moved from the [[Premier League]] to Division Three in a matter of weeks, becoming Mike Walsh's assistant at [[Bury F.C.|Bury]]. When Walsh quit in October 1995, Ternent moved up to the manager's seat, and seven months later he took them to Division Two as the third-placed team in Division Three. A year later they won the Division Two championship and survived the first season in Division One; however, Ternent left [[Gigg Lane]] at the end of the [[1997–98 in English football|1997–98]] season to take charge of [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]] in Division Two.

Ternent inherited a club in chaos after the ill-fated tenure of Chris Waddle, and a major clearout ensued. Despite a number of heavy defeats, Ternent gained the support of the new owner and chairman, Barry Kilby, and finished the season with an unbeaten run of eleven games to finish in 15th position. Ternent's second season as Burnley manager, [[1999-2000 in English football|1999–2000]] saw the club finishing as runners-up, securing automatic promotion. Over the next two seasons under Ternent, Burnley became an established Division One club, achieving consecutive 7th-place finishes. The next two seasons were rather more disappointing as the collapse of [[ITV Digital]] hit the club's finances, and despite reaching the FA Cup quarter finals in 2003, the club's board did not renew his contract after the [[2003–04 in English football|2003–04]] campaign. At the end of his final game against Sunderland, an emotional Ternent took a lap of honour around Turf Moor to a standing ovation from the Burnley supporters.
 
Ternent made a brief comeback in [[2004–05 in English football|2004–05]] with [[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]], taking [[Ronnie Jepson]] from Burnley to be his assistant; however, his short-term contract as manager was not renewed, as despite a heroic attempt at survival they were relegated to League One. Ternent quit Gillingham in May 2005.<ref>{{cite news
|date=15 May 2005
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gillingham/4549073.stm
|title= Ternent quits as Gillingham boss
|website=BBC Sport
|access-date=30 August 2007}}</ref>

In November 2007, he was appointed to the backroom staff of new [[Derby County F.C.|Derby County]] manager [[Paul Jewell]]. He left this role on 24 April 2008 to take up the reins at [[Huddersfield Town A.F.C.|Huddersfield Town]] in place of [[Andy Ritchie (English footballer)|Andy Ritchie]], who had been relieved of his duties at the beginning of the month. Ex-Town player Ronnie Jepson, appointed on the same day, became his assistant. He officially started his new job on 28 April, leaving [[Gerry Murphy (football manager)|Gerry Murphy]] in charge of Town's last home game against [[Walsall F.C.|Walsall]] on 26 April and their last away game at [[Luton Town F.C.|Luton Town]] on 3 May.<ref>{{cite news
|date=24 April 2008
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/h/huddersfield_town/7364376.stm
|title= Ternent named Huddersfield boss
|website=BBC Sport
|access-date=4 November 2008}}</ref>

Backed by a large budget,{{citation needed|date=July 2008}} Ternent signed [[Keigan Parker]], [[Jim Goodwin]], [[Andy Butler]], [[Chris Lucketti]], [[Michael Flynn (footballer)|Michael Flynn]], [[Gary Roberts (footballer born 1984)|Gary Roberts]] and [[David Unsworth]] during the opening weeks of 2008–09 pre-season. On 4 November, Ternent left the [[Galpharm Stadium]] after just over six months in charge of the Terriers.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/h/huddersfield_town/7707920.stm
|title= Huddersfield sack manager Ternent
|website=BBC Sport
|date=4 November 2008
|access-date=4 November 2008}}</ref> To date, that is the second-shortest reign of any permanent manager in Huddersfield Town's history.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.htafc.com/page/PreMatch/0,,10312~1562580,00.html |title=Huddersfield Town &#124; Match &#124; Pre-Match Analysis &#124; CREWE ALEXANDRA: PRE-MATCH ANALYSIS |access-date=11 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426000141/http://www.htafc.com/page/PreMatch/0,,10312~1562580,00.html# |archive-date=26 April 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In September 2009 he became a [[scout (sport)|scout]] for Sunderland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sunderlandecho.com/safc/Ternent-joins-Sunderland-scouting-network.5651917.jp |title=Ternent joins Sunderland scouting network |work= [[Sunderland Echo]]|accessdate=20 September 2009}}</ref>
In September 2012, Ternent was appointed as Chief Recruitment Officer for Hull.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Hull-City-Stan-Ternant-s-experience-key-Steve/story-16871707-detail/story.html|title=Hull City: Stan Ternant's 'experience' key to Steve Bruce|date=11 September 2012|work=Hull Daily Mail|access-date=31 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121028133238/http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Hull-City-Stan-Ternant-s-experience-key-Steve/story-16871707-detail/story.html#|archive-date=28 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> He left the club in January 2017, following the sacking of head coach [[Mike Phelan]].<ref>{{cite news
 | url = http://www.hullcitytigers.com/news/article/2016-17/tigers-confirm-coaching-staff-departures-3501252.aspx
 | title = Tigers Confirm Coaching Staff Departures
 | date = 4 January 2017
 | publisher = Hull City A.F.C.
 | access-date = 4 January 2017}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In January 2007, Ternent faced assault charges after being accused of headbutting a man at [[Burnley Cricket Club]] in August 2006.<ref>{{cite news
|date=29 January 2007
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6309941.stm
|title=Ex-Clarets boss appears in court
|website=BBC Sport
|access-date=30 August 2007}}</ref> He was cleared in September 2007. His defence included a statement by [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] manager [[Alex Ferguson|Sir Alex Ferguson]].<ref>{{cite news
|date=7 September 2007
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/6982985.stm
|title=Ex-Burnley boss cleared of attack
|website=BBC Sport
|access-date=7 September 2007}}</ref>

==Managerial statistics==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Team
!rowspan="2"|Country
!rowspan="2"|From
!rowspan="2"|To
!colspan="5"|Record
|-
!G!!W!!L!!D!!Win %
|-
|align=left|[[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|19 September 1979
|align=left|1 February 1980
||22||5||10||7||22.7
|-
|align=left|[[Hull City A.F.C.|Hull City]]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|8 November 1989
|align=left|31 January 1991
||62||19||28||15||30.6
|-
|align=left|[[Bury F.C.|Bury]]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|4 September 1995
|align=left|2 June 1998
||149||60||44||45||40.3
|-
|align=left|[[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|2 June 1998
|align=left|3 June 2004
||312||122||108||82||39.1
|-
|align=left|[[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|7 December 2004
|align=left|21 May 2005
||25||7||7||11||28.0
|-
|align=left|[[Huddersfield Town A.F.C.|Huddersfield Town]]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|28 April 2008
|align=left|4 November 2008
||18||5||8||5||27.8
|}

==Honours==

===As a player===
'''Carlisle United'''
* [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]] promotion: [[1973–74 in English football|1973–74]]

===As a manager===
'''Bury'''
* [[Football League Third Division|Division Three]] promotion: [[1995–96 in English football|1995–96]]
* [[Football League Third Division|Division Two]]: [[1996–97 in English football|1996–97]]

'''Burnley'''
* [[Football League Third Division|Division Two]] promotion: [[1999-2000 in English football|1999–2000]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

;Bibliography
*{{cite book | first=Roy | last=Calley| title=Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887–1992 | publisher=Breedon Books Sport | year=1992 | isbn=1-873626-07-X}}

==External links==
*{{soccerbase (manager)|1143|Stan Ternent}}
*{{NeilBrownPlayers|player2/stanternant}}

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{{Bury F.C. managers}}
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{{Huddersfield Town F.C. managers}}

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