Andy Preece

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Andy Preece
Personal information
Full name	Andrew Preece
Date of birth	27 March 1967 (1967-03-27) (age 42)
Place of birth	Evesham, England
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Northwich Victoria (manager)
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
?–1988 1988–1989 1989–1990 1990–1991 1991–1994 1994–1995 1995–1998 1998–2003 2003–2005 2005–2007	Worcester City Evesham United Northampton Town Worcester City Wrexham Stockport County Crystal Palace Blackpool Bury Carlisle United Worcester City	001 0(0) 00? 0(?) 051 0(7) 097 (42) 020 0(4) 129 (35) 166 (27) 040 (10) 00? 0(?)
Teams managed
1999–2003 2005–2007 2009–	Bury Worcester City Northwich Victoria
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Andrew Preece (born 27 March 1967) is an English former footballer. He is currently manager at Northwich Victoria.

[edit] Career

Born in Evesham, Worcestershire, Preece began his career as a junior with Worcester City, making his debut in the Conference aged 16. He subsequently played for Evesham United before joining Northampton Town in August 1988. He made just one appearance, as a substitute, before being released at the end of the following season.

In July 1989 he rejoined Worcester City and in March 1990 signed for Wrexham. In December 1991 he joined Stockport County for a fee of £10,000. He impressed enough (including scoring the winning goal in a giant-killing feat against Queens Park Rangers in the FA Cup) that he signed for Crystal Palace in June 1994, as strike partner to Chris Armstrong, for a fee of £350,000.

However, he struggled to establish himself and joined Blackpool for a fee of £200,000 in July 1995.

In July 1997 Preece joined Bury on a free transfer and in 1999 was appointed player-manager. He was released in December 2003 as Bury tried to cut costs^[1] and joined Carlisle United as a player.^[2] He was unable to prevent Carlisle's relegation to the Conference, but chose to remain with the Cumbrians for the following season.^[3]

In February 2005, Preece joined Worcester City as player-manager^[4] and led the side to three consecutive top ten finished in the Conference North and in 2006 to the second round of the FA Cup. He left Worcester in October 2007.^[5] He became caretaker manager of Northwich Victoria on 25 February 2009.^[6] On 14 May 2009, Precce agreed a one-year contract to take over permanently at Northwich.^[7]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Andy Preece career stats at Soccerbase
• Andy Preece management career stats at Soccerbase

v • d • e Bury F.C. – Managers Hargreaves (1887) · Hamer (1887–1907) · Montgomery (1907–15) · Cameron (1919–23) · Hunter (1923–27) · P. Smith (1927–30) · Paine (1930–34) · Bullock (1934–38) · Dean (1938–44) · Porter (1944–45) · Bullock (1945–49) · McNeil (1950–53) · Russell (1953–61) · Stokoe (1961–65) · Head (1965–66) · Shannon (1966–69) · Marshall (1969) · Hart (1970) · McAnearney (1970–72) · Brown (1972–73) · B. Smith (1973–77) · Stokoe (1977–78) · Hatton (1978–79) · Connor (1979–80) · Iley (1980–84) · Dobson (1984–89) · Ellis (1989–90) · Walsh (1990–95) · Ternent (1995–98) · Warnock (1998–99) · Redmond (1999–2000) · Preece (1999–2003) · Barrow (2003–05) · Casper (2005–08) · Brass (2008) · Knill (2008–)

v • d • e Worcester City F.C. – Managers Womack (1928–29) · Smith (1929–32) · Hair (1932–34) · Whitehouse (1934–35) · Keetley (1935–36) · Russell (1936–37) · Wallington (1937–38) · Gibbons (1938–46) · Jackson (1946–47) · Vinall (1947–50) · James (1950–53) · B. Jones (1953–57) · Paul (1957–58) · Thompson (1958–62) · McLennan (1962) · B. Jones (1962–69) · Stuart (1968–71) · Grant (1971–73) · Newton (1973) · Jackman (1973–74) · Radford (1974–75) · Clark (1975–84) · Shinton (1984) · Armstrong (1984–85) · Cooper (1985–86) · J. Jones (1986) · Rooney (1986–89) · Grifiths (1989) · Ferguson (1989–90) · Robertson (1990–91) · Lines (1991) · Bennett (1991–92) · Rooney (1992–98) · Allner (1998–1999) · Barton (1999–05) · Preece (2005–07) · Dryden (2007–)

v • d • e Northwich Victoria F.C. – Managers Boothway (1955–57) · Manley (?–?) · Ogden (1975–?) · J. King (198?–8?) · Wilson (?–?) · Gardiner (1998–2000) · Alexander (2000–01) · Quinn (2001–03) · Davis (2003) · McDonald (2003) · Teale (2003–04) · Burr (2004–07) · Redfearn (2007) · Warhurst (2007) · Maamria (2007–08) · Marsh (2008) · S. King (2008–09) · Preece (2009–)

v • d • e Northwich Victoria F.C. – current squad GK Jones · GK Tynan · GK Westhead · DF Brown · DF Grand · DF Meadowcroft · DF Stevens · DF Welch · MF Crowell · MF Elam · MF Mullan · MF Riley · MF Whitley · FW Allan · FW Bailey · FW Burns · FW Horrocks · FW Richards · Manager: Preece