Kenny Lowe

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Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox football biography Kenny Lowe (born 6 November 1961) is an English football coach and former player who is the manager of Australian side Perth SC.

Kenny played for ten clubs in England, and had a stint in Australia also. He later managed Gateshead and Barrow before returning to Perth to work in football, where he would undertake a five-year tenure as the manager of A-League side Perth Glory.

Playing career

Lowe played for ten clubs during his career, which started on a part-time basis in 1981 with Hartlepool United, while he served an apprenticeship as a pipe-fitter and welder with ICI.[1] He moved to Australia in 1986 to play for Spearwood Dalmatinacs in the Western Australia Premier League before returning to England.[2] He was twice signed by manager Barry Fry, first for £40,000 for Barnet in 1991 and secondly at Birmingham City for £75,000, when at the age of 31 he turned professional.[1] He finally ended his career at the age of 39. He also won two caps with the England semi-professional team.[1]

Managerial career

Lowe started his managerial career with Gateshead as joint manager with Matty Pearson.[3] He returned to Barrow in 1999 when the club had just four players.[1] He stayed at Barrow for four seasons during which time they remained in administration.[4]

He left Barrow to move to Australia where he was appointed assistant manager at Perth Glory.[2] He also coaches at the Football West national training centre, taking charge of the team in inter-state matches.

Following the sacking of Alistair Edwards as Perth Glory's head coach, Lowe was appointed as the caretaker coach.[5]

On 22 April 2014 Lowe was appointed as full-time coach of Perth Glory, after winning just 4 of 17 games as caretaker coach.[6] In his first full season in charge of the Glory he led them to the final of the 2014 FFA Cup. On 20 April 2018 Lowe was sacked as the head coach of Perth and was appointed technical director of the club's academy.[7] Lowe departed as the Glory's longest serving A-League manager.[8][9]

On 13 November 2018, Lowe was appointed as an assistant coach of the Socceroos for their friendlies in November.[10] He continued in this role for the Socceroos' Asian Cup defence in January.[11]

In July 2023, following the departure of Ruben Zadkovich as head coach, Lowe became interim coach of Perth Glory once again for a post-season game against West Ham United and the Australia Cup play-off against Macarthur.[12]

Personal life

He was born in Sedgefield, County Durham, and now lives in Perth, Western Australia.[3] His sister, Kendra Slawinski, is a former England netball international.[1]

Career statistics

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Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Hartlepool United 1981–82 Fourth Division 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1982–83 Fourth Division 22 1 0 0 0 0 2Template:Efn 0 24 1
1983–84 Fourth Division 28 2 2 0 2 0 1Template:Efn 0 33 2
Total 54 3 2 0 2 0 3 0 61 3
Scarborough 1987–88 Fourth Division 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
Barnet 1991–92 Fourth Division 36 3 3 0 1 0 3Template:Efn 0 43 3
1992–93 Third Division 36 2 2 0 1 0 1Template:Efn 0 40 2
Total 72 5 5 0 2 0 4 0 83 5
Stoke City 1993–94 First Division 9 0 0 0 2 0 2Template:Efn 0 13 0
Birmingham City 1993–94 First Division 12 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 13 1
1994–95 Second Division 7 2 3 0 1 0 3Template:Efn 0 14 2
1995–96 First Division 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Total 21 3 4 0 1 0 3 0 29 3
Carlisle United (loan) 1994–95 Third Division 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Hartlepool United (loan) 1995–96 Third Division 13 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 15 3
Darlington 1996–97 Third Division 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1997–98 Third Division 7 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 9 0
Total 14 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 16 0
Career Total 189 14 11 0 11 0 12 0 223 14

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Managerial statistics

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Team Nat From To Record
G W D L Win %
Barrow England August 1999 May 2003

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Perth Glory Australia 20 December 2013 20 April 2018

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Total

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Honours

Individual

References

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