Martin Ling

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Martin Ling
Personal information
Full name	Martin Ling
Date of birth	July 15, 1966 (1966-07-15) (age 42)
Place of birth	West Ham, England
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Hibernian (scout)
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1983–1986 1986 1986–1991 1991 1991–1996 1996–2000 2000	Exeter City Swindon Town Southend United → Mansfield Town (loan) Swindon Town Leyton Orient Brighton & Hove Albion Total	117 (14) 002 0(0) 136 (30) 003 0(0) 150 (10) 148 0(8) 008 0(1) 564 (63)
Teams managed
2003–2009	Leyton Orient
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Martin Ling (born 15 July 1966) is an English football manager and former player, who is currently working for Scottish Premier League club Hibernian as a scout. He played in over 100 league matches for Exeter City, Southend United, Swindon Town and Leyton Orient. He then managed Orient for over five years from 2003 until early 2009.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Managerial career 3 Honours 3.1 As a Player 3.1.1 Promotions 3.2 As a Manager 3.2.1 Promotions 4 Managerial stats 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Playing career

Born in West Ham, Greater London, Ling started his career with Exeter City before a five year spell with Southend United. He first played for Orient in 1996, when he joined from Swindon Town. He was a left-winger in the Swindon side that won promotion to the Premier League (via the Division One playoffs) in 1993. He transferred to Brighton and Hove Albion in 2000 and played 8 games for them. Later that year he rejoined Orient as a coach. He played for Purfleet in the Isthmian League until September 2001.

[edit] Managerial career

He was appointed manager of Leyton Orient in December 2003 after a spell as caretaker manager. In the 2005–06 league campaign he guided Orient to automatic promotion from League Two on the final day of the season, and then successfully kept the club in League One in the following season. The following season, Ling was able to bring Leyton Orient to 14th position in League 1, after topping the table for three months early in the season. During tough times in the 2008–09 season he was heavily linked with the vacant manager job at Swindon Town during November 2008. However, no offer was said to have come from the club and Ling continued to do a sterling job at Leyton Orient with limited funds. On 18 January 2009, with Leyton Orient in 21st place and in the relegation zone, the decision was taken for Ling and his assistant Dean Smith to leave the club by mutual consent.^[1]

After leaving Orient, Ling was hired by Hibernian to set up a network of scouts in England for the Scottish Premier League club, while also identifying players himself.^[2] In May 2009 he applied for the vacant management position at Port Vale.^[2][3]

[edit] Honours

[edit] As a Player

[edit] Promotions

• 1986–87: Division 4 3rd (promotion to Division Three) - Southend United
• 1989–90: Division 4 3rd (promotion to Division Three) - Southend United
• 1992–93: Division 1 Playoff Winner (promotion to The Premiership) - Swindon Town
• 1995–96: Division 2 Champion (promotion to Division One) - Swindon Town

[edit] As a Manager

[edit] Promotions

• 2005–06: League Two 3rd (promotion to League One) - Leyton Orient

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Leyton Orient		September 27, 2003	January 18, 2009	218	82	74	62	37.61

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Martin Ling career stats at Soccerbase
• Martin Ling management career stats at Soccerbase

v • d • e Leyton Orient F.C. – Managers Omerod (1905–06) · Ivenson (1906) · Holmes (1907–22) · Proudfoot (1922–29) · Grimsdell (1929–30) · Proudfoot (1930–31) · Seed (1931–33) · Pratt (1933–34) · Proudfoot (1935–39) · Halsey (1939) · Wright (1939–45) · Hall (1945–45) · Wright (1945–46) · Hewitt (1946–48) · McBain (1948–49) · Stock (1949–59) · Carey (1961–63) · Fenton (1963–64) · Sexton (1965) · Graham (1966–68) · Bloomfield (1968–71) · Petchey (1971–77) · Bloomfield (1977–81) · Went (1981) · Knighton (1981–82) · Clark (1982–91) · Eustace (1991–94) · Sitton (1994–95) · Turner (1994–95) · Holland (1995–96) · Taylor (1996–2001) · Brush (2001–03) · Ling (2003–09) · Nugent (2009) · Williams (2009–)

This biographical article related to an English football midfielder born in the 1960s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.