Billy Horner

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Billy Horner
Full name	William Horner
Date of birth	7 September 1942 (1942-09-07) (age 66)
Place of birth	Cassop, England
Playing position	Central defender
Senior career¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1960-1969 1969-1975	Middlesbrough Darlington	187 (11) 218 0(5)
Teams managed
1974-1975 1976-1983 1984-1986	Darlington Hartlepool United Hartlepool United
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

William 'Billy' Horner (born 7 September 1942 in Cassop, England) is an English footballer and manager.

Horner played at Middlesbrough from 1960 to 1969, primarily as a defender. He moved on to Darlington where he played until 1975.

He was player-manager of Darlington during the 1974–75 season, in which the club had to apply for re-election. He left the club at the end of the season. In October 1976, he was named manager of Darlington's arch-rivals Hartlepool United and had two separate spells as manager: one from 1976-1983 and the other from 1984-1986. Although Hartlepool applied for re-election to the League on three occasions, Horner also guided the club to a respectable 9th place finish in 1980–81, during which the club had been promotion contenders. In his second spell at the club, Hartlepool finished 7th in 1985–86, in which they had also been a promotion contender for much of the season.

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	G	W	L	D	Win %
Darlington		August 1974	May 1975	46	13	23	10	28.3
Hartlepool United		October 1976	March 1983	307	95	135	77	30.9
Hartlepool United		December 1984	November 1986	94	30	43	21	31.9

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Darlington F.C. – Managers

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Hartlepool United F.C. – Managers

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