page_title: List of West Ham United F.C. managers
section_title: Alan Pardew
hierarchical_section_title: List of West Ham United F.C. managers / Managers / Alan Pardew
caption_attribution_description: English: Alan Pardew, London, Feb 2012
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: Former Crystal Palace player and the manager of Reading, Alan Pardew was lined up to be the next manager. Reading and their chairman, John Madejski, were reluctant to let him leave. After serving a period of notice and gardening leave and with West Ham paying Reading £380,000 in compensation, he was appointed manager on 18 October 2003, their tenth permanent manager. Pardew set out to rebuild the side bringing in Nigel Reo-Coker, Marlon Harewood and Brian Deane. In his 1st season in charge they made the playoff final only to lose to Crystal Palace. His signings of Bobby Zamora, Matthew Etherington and veterans Chris Powell and Teddy Sheringham saw West Ham finishing in sixth position and subsequently beating Preston North End 1–0, thanks to a Zamora goal, in the 2005 playoff final to return to the Premier League. Of securing promotion, Pardew said, "It's a team effort. We defended well and we're back where we belong."
  In the 2005–06 season, having signed striker Dean Ashton he guided them to ninth place and an FA Cup final where they were beaten on penalties by Liverpool. In the close season, Pardew signed Carlton Cole from Chelsea, with Pardew saying of the deal, "This is a great coup for West Ham. Several clubs came in for Carlton and it is a great compliment to what we have achieved here, that he has signed for us."
  The 2006–07 season started poorly. Now back playing in Europe in the UEFA Cup, they were beaten in the first round 4–0 by Palermo. The team went ten games without a win and in October 2006 they were beaten in the League Cup by fourth tier side Chesterfield. The club were on their worst run of results for 74 years. Pardew was acting more like a highly paid player than a manager by turning up for training driving an expensive Ferrari car and was boasting of his wealth having earned £1.5 million in bonuses in the previous season. His actions did not help team morale.  There were accusations that several young players had got carried away with one successful season in the top flight. After a 4–0 away defeat to Bolton Wanderers, Pardew was sacked on 11 December 2006 by new chairman Eggert Magnússon.
caption: Alan Pardew
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