Neil Maddison

Neil Maddison
Personal information
Full name	Neil Stanley Maddison
Date of birth	2 October 1969 (age 55)
Place of birth	Darlington, England
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s)	Central midfielder
Team information
Current team	Middlesbrough; (Academy Ambassador)
Youth career
1984–1988	Southampton
Senior career*
Years	Team
1988–1997	Southampton
1997–2001	Middlesbrough
2000	→ Barnsley (loan)
2001	→ Bristol City (loan)
2001–2007	Darlington
Total
Managerial career
2006	Darlington (joint caretaker)
2009	Darlington (joint caretaker)
2010	Darlington (joint caretaker)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Neil Stanley Maddison (born 2 October 1969) is an English football coach, former professional footballer and co-commentator. He is the academy ambassador and player welfare officer at Middlesbrough.

As a player, he was predominantly a central midfield who notably played in the Premier League for Southampton and Middlesbrough, before going on to play in the Football League with Barnsley, Bristol City and Darlington.

He would initially remain with Darlington following the end of his playing career and worked in a variety of roles at the club, as well as managing the first team on a temporary basis on three occasions. He has since worked with the Middlesbrough academy and has co-commentated on games for BBC Tees since the start of the 2013–14 season.

Playing career

Maddison signed as a trainee with Southampton in 1984 and stayed with them until 1997 when he made a £250,000 transfer to Middlesbrough where he spent time on loan to Bansley and Bristol City (where he scored once against Oldham Athletic).^[3] Then he went back to his home town club, Darlington. From there he has gone on to coach the youth team in Darlington and also has a role in the club's centre of excellence.

Coaching career

On 30 September 2006, David Hodgson was suspended by the club following a run of poor results and a possible approach from AFC Bournemouth, leaving Maddison and Martin Gray as joint caretakers for up to two weeks while an internal investigation was carried out.^[4] He remained in charge until Dave Penney was appointed on 30 October.^[5] On 5 January 2007, Darlington agreed to end Maddison's playing contract so he could concentrate on being youth coach full-time.

In February 2008, after Mick Tait had left Darlington, Maddison took over the role as reserve team coach with Craig Liddle taking the role of youth team coach.

On 8 May 2009, it was reported that Darlington's administrators, Brackenbury Clark and Company, had released the majority of the first team squad from their contracts to cut costs, with immediate effect, as well as the club's coaching staff and administrative staff including the caretaker manager Martin Gray, leaving Liddle and Maddison as joint temporary caretaker managers.^[6] They remained in these posts until Colin Todd was appointed on 20 May.^[7]

In May 2009, Maddison was appointed Darlington's centre of excellence manager.^{[citation needed]}

After Todd was dismissed from Darlington, Maddison was appointed to assist Liddle as temporary caretaker assistant manager as Liddle was appointed caretaker manager.

On 5 October 2009, the former Republic of Ireland manager Steve Staunton took over as the new permanent manager until the end of that season with the former Sunderland coach Kevin Richardson as his assistant.^[8] On 21 March 2010, Maddison joined Liddle as caretaker yet again after the sacking of Staunton,^[9] before Simon Davey was appointed manager on 1 April.^[10]

Since September 2018, Maddison has worked for Middlesbrough as their academy ambassador and player welfare officer.^[11]

Media career

Maddison has worked for BBC Tees as a co-commentator on Middlesbrough games.^[12]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition ^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]
Club	Season	League			FA Cup		League Cup		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Southampton
	1988–89	First Division	5	2	0	0	0	0	—		5	2
	1989–90	First Division	2	0	1	0	0	0	—		3	0
	1990–91	First Division	4	0	1	0	0	0	1^[a]	0	6	0
	1991–92	First Division	6	0	1	0	1	0	—		8	0
	1992–93	Premier League	37	4	1	0	1	0	—		39	4
	1993–94	Premier League	41	7	2	0	2	0	—		45	7
	1994–95	Premier League	35	3	4	0	2	0	—		41	3
	1995–96	Premier League	15	1	2	0	3	0	—		20	1
	1996–97	Premier League	18	1	1	0	4	0	—		23	1
	1997–98	Premier League	6	1	0	0	0	0	—		6	1
	Total		169	19	13	0	13	0	1	0	195	19
Middlesbrough
	1997–98	First Division	22	4	3	0	4	0	—		29	4
	1998–99	Premier League	21	0	1	0	1	0	—		23	0
	1999–2000	Premier League	13	0	0	0	2	0	—		15	0
	2000–01	Premier League	0	0	0	0	1	0	—		1	0
	Total		56	4	4	0	8	0	0	0	68	4
Barnsley (loan)	2000–01	First Division	3	0	0	0	0	0	—		3	0
Bristol City (loan)	2000–01	Second Division	7	1	0	0	0	0	—		7	1
Darlington
	2001–02	Third Division	30	1	3	0	1	0	2^[b]	0	36	1
	2002–03	Third Division	28	1	0	0	1	0	—		29	1
	2003–04	Third Division	32	1	1	0	1	0	1^[b]	0	35	1
	2004–05	League Two	24	1	2	0	1	0	1^[b]	0	28	1
	2005–06	League Two	1	0	0	0	0	0	—		1	0
	Total		115	4	6	0	4	0	4	0	129	4
Career total			350	28	23	0	25	0	5	0	403	28

^ Appearances in Full Members' Cup
^ ^a ^b ^c Appearances in EFL Trophy

Honours

Middlesbrough

Football League Cup runner-up: 1997–98^[18]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Neil Maddison". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
^ "Neil Maddison". ESPNsoccernet. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
^ "Bristol City 2–2 Oldham". BBC. 27 March 2001. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
^ "Quakers suspend manager Hodgson". BBC Sport. 30 September 2006. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
^ "Penney named as Darlington boss". BBC Sport. 30 October 2006. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
^ "Darlington put squad up for free". BBC Sport. 8 May 2009. Retrieved 8 May 2009.
^ "Houghton and Todd to lead Quakers". BBC Sport. 20 May 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
^ "Staunton appointed new Quakers boss". Darlington F.C. 5 October 2009. Archived from the original on 4 July 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2009.
^ "Darlington part company with manager Steve Staunton". BBC Sport. 21 March 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
^ "Simon Davey named as new Darlington manager". BBC Sport. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
^ "Club Strengthens Links With Grassroots Game on Teesside". Middlesbrough F.C. 11 September 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
^ Vickers, Anthony (4 June 2013). "Neil Maddison takes on BBC Radio Tees matchday role". Gazette Live. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
^ "Neil Maddison career appearances". Soccerbase. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
^ "Neil Maddison career appearances". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
^ "Neil Maddison career appearances". 11v11.com. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
^ "Neil Maddison career appearances". sporting-heroes.net. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
^ Neil Maddison at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
^ "Chelsea v Middlesbrough, 29 March 1998 - 11v11 match report". 11v11. AFS Enterprises. Retrieved 31 March 2024.