page_title: List of West Ham United F.C. managers
section_title: Alan Curbishley
hierarchical_section_title: List of West Ham United F.C. managers / Managers / Alan Curbishley
caption_attribution_description: English: West Ham manager Alan Curbishley signing autographs for fans before West Ham's 2-1 victory over Manchester United on 29 December 2007
context_page_description: West Ham United Football Club, an association football club based in Stratford, London, have had seventeen permanent managers in their history and an additional three caretaker managers. Up until 1989 the club had only had five different managers. Before the appointment of Gianfranco Zola in 2008 the club never had an overseas manager, with the only non-Englishman being the Scot, Lou Macari. The most recent manager is the Chilean Manuel Pellegrini, appointed in May 2018 on a three year deal - succeeding David Moyes, who was appointed on a short-term contract after Slaven Bilić was sacked in November 2017. Before Bilić, the club was managed by Sam Allardyce, who was appointed in May 2011 and left in May 2015. Numerous former West Ham players have taken on temporary managerial roles at the club, between permanent managers. Ronnie Boyce briefly took the reins, in February 1990, between Macari's resignation and the appointment of Billy Bonds. Former Hammer's player and board member Trevor Brooking was briefly in charge during two separate spells as caretaker manager in 2003, first during the illness of Glenn Roeder and again between Roeder's sacking and the appointment of Alan Pardew.
context_section_description: The new owners wasted little time is searching for a replacement, and on 13 December 2006, Alan Curbishley was appointed. During his 15 years as manager of Charlton Athletic, Curbishley produced an established mid-table side. He continued in the same vein at West Ham and in his first season in charge, 2006–07, they finished 15th in the Premier League. He was also required to deal with the controversy caused under Pardew's managership by the signings of Argentine internationals Javier Mascherano and Carlos Tevez. He rarely used Mascherano who made only five league appearances. He also had a poor relationship with Tevez. West Ham struggled and were embroiled in problems with the FA over the legalities concerning the contracts of Mascherano and Tevez. Curbishley finally consistently picked Tevez at the start of 2008. His 26 games and 7 goals proved to be vital. West Ham maintained their Premier League status only on the last day of the season, with Tevez scoring the only goal at Old Trafford against Manchester United. Many, including Lord Griffiths, who ruled on the legality of Tevez's contract, thought maintaining their Premier League had been as much to do with the efforts of Tevez as the management skills of Curbishley. Tevez left the club in the summer and Curbishley produced what he was renowned for; a comfortable mid-table finish of tenth place with a degree of stability in defence due to the performances of Lucas Neil and Matthew Upson.
  The start of the next season saw him in conflict with the management. Suffering financially due to the effects of the 2008–11 Icelandic financial crisis on chairman and owner, Björgólfur Guðmundsson, who had seen his wealth disappear, and because of the costly signings of players such as Kieron Dyer, Craig Bellamy and Freddie Ljungberg, the board saw fit to transfer players without the manager's approval. Anton Ferdinand and George McCartney were sold to Sunderland against Curbishley's wishes. As he was contractually in control of all first team transfers, Curbishley felt he had no choice but to resign, on 3 September 2008. Kevin Keen was appointed as caretaker while the search for a new manager went underway.
caption: Alan Curbishley
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