AFC Telford United quickly bring in a new manager following the decision to depart with Paul Carden with the club struggling this season.
The Bucks made the decision to sack Carden on Sunday evening after less than a year in charge – with the club sitting in the bottom two of the National League North having won just one game all campaign.
Less than 24 hours after the ex-Warrington Town boss had been axed – Telford announced that Kevin Wilkin, who last month was surprisingly sacked by Brackley Town, has now been announced as the new boss.
Done deal 🤝
AFC Telford United are delighted to announce the appointment of Kevin Wilkin as our new first team manager with immediate effect.https://t.co/Z4AmJWUhYZ pic.twitter.com/k40GrMKLZS
— AFC Telford United (@telfordutd) October 10, 2022
CLUB STATEMENT:
AFC Telford United are delighted to announce the appointment of Kevin Wilkin as our new first team manager with immediate effect.
Kevin joins the club after a hugely successful seven seasons as first team manager of Brackley Town in The National League North where he led the club to regular play-off finishes, play off finalists last season, winning the FA Trophy in 2018 and twice to the FA Cup second round proper. Before that at Wrexham he took them to the FA Trophy Final and the third round of the FA Cup and took Nuneaton to three promotions and a number of FA Cup runs to the First Round proper.
Kevin will be joined at the New Bucks Head by his management team at Brackley including Mark Noon and David Staff.
We would like to welcome Kevin and his staff to the football club as we look to hopefully start to climb the National League North table.
Chairman Andy Pryce said ‘’Myself and the Board are delighted to have appointed Kevin Wilkin as first team manager. He has a fantastic record at our level and above and we will be working with Kevin to progress our on the field results both short term and longer term’’.
Kevin Wilkin said ‘’I am honoured and proud to be appointed as the first team manager of AFC Telford United. This will be a challenge in the short term, and we will be looking to work together to make improvements quickly and in the first instance to move to a position of safety, before progressing to a much better future’’
AFC TELFORD’S LEAGUE HISTORY
SEASON LEAGUE P W D L F A P POS 2004-05 NPL-1 42 23 11 8 78 44 80 3/22 2005-06 NPL-P 42 14 17 11 54 52 59 10/22 2006-07 NPL-P 42 21 15 6 72 40 78 3/22 2007-08 CONF-N 42 24 8 10 70 43 80 2/22 2008-09 CONF-N 42 22 10 10 65 34 76 4/22 2009-10 CONF-N 40 14 9 17 52 55 51 11/21 2010-11 CONF-N 40 23 13 4 71 29 82 2/21 2011-12 CONF-Nat 46 10 16 20 45 65 46 20/24 2012-13 CONF-P 46 6 17 23 52 79 35 24/24 2013-14 CONF-N 42 25 10 7 82 53 85 1/22 2014-15 CONF-P 46 10 9 27 58 84 36 * 23/24 2015-16 NAT-N 42 13 8 21 47 60 47 18/22 2016-17 NAT-N 42 10 12 20 38 57 42 17/22 2017-18 NAT-N 42 16 5 21 55 69 53 14/22 2018-19 NAT-N 42 17 14 11 64 55 65 8/22 2019-20 NAT-N 34 11 9 14 51 56 42 14/22 2020-21 NAT-N 17 5 4 8 17 23 19 ABAND 2021-22 NAT-N 42 7 16 19 48 65 37 20/22
Fans had their say as Telford quickly bring in a new manager…
@BoulterRichard: Welcome Kevin! All the very best! Main thing is that once the decision was made to move on from PC we did so quickly.
@leemacca25: LOOK AT IT
@jordandavies09: Yeah that’s basically as good an appointment as you could get
@tonyrichard99: Credit again to the board for getting this deal done. Welcome Kevin!
@Lee_P31: Incredible news! #UpTheBucks ⚽️
@chrismorg89: Fantastic news and very quickly dealt with and tied up. Push on now and let’s get up the table
@AlfieBooth6: Great appointment, let’s move forward now.
@FrancisLaye: Nice and quick 👏👏 good luck Kevin..
@jonsmartuk: Good luck Kevin, looking forward to seeing you at the Bucks head, time to move forward!
@bobbynoakess: fantastic appointment, good luck gaffer
@PADavies80: Brilliant appointment and great honest guy
@Jakeg633: Announce promotion push
@adjm95x: Up the bucks! 😃😃
@joshwithers108: Fantastic manager and a genuinely great man. Couldn’t have hired someone better
@MorganMCFC115: About time
@chesterfc1960: Great appointment for you guys.
@peckham_steve: The board get a lot of stick, but in this instance they’ve moved quickly to get a fantastic manager….there’s a long way to go this season, but this is very positive news 😊
@KarlJLatham: Great appointment on paper this is. Will be interesting to see how he gets on.
@MarkBirney6: Rare sentence warning ahead. Well done to the board for not messing around with the new appointment👏👏
@ChrisMaddison13: What a coup for Telford. One of the brightest managers in NL football.
@Claffers91: Buzzing with the appointment but he’s bo miracle worker, he needs backing with investment
@Garethwebb1: Good luck Kevin….such a decent, honest chap. Hope he is very successful with you guy’s 👏
@RedheadSimon: Very good appointment. Good luck Kevin.
@alanjenkins96: Good luck with this one. COYW ⚽️⚽️
@fearlessidzine: Telford back in the NL soon. Great appointment.
@AndrewSlaughte1: Very good appointment is that! @telfordutd
@karl_woodgate: Lovely, not before time!
@andydurrant75: Good appointment for Telford. Knew he wouldn’t be out of work long.
@TheRealBenBruce: Telford absolutely landed a huge win here.
@Berty23: And with that I become a Telford fan. A bit annoying that it is further from Warwick than Brackley but there you go!
@wwfcscott: Fantastic news for the club, looking forward to seeing what he can do.
@LukeF125: This is a phenomenal appointment.
@MichaelClarke89: Dreams can come true! 😍⚽️
@Darren_J96; Spectacular news. Been almost a decade of wanting this but finally done!
@JasonBoyd97: The Bucks are back!!
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