Manager: Ian Holloway

Ian Holloway played 561 league games during a 19-year playing career as a midfielder with Bristol Rovers, Wimbledon, Torquay United, Brentford and QPR.

'Ollie' as he is affectionally known, made his senior debut in the Bristol Rovers midfield as a teenager in April 1981, when he came on as a substitute against Wrexham.

After 134 appearances and 17 goals in four years at Eastville, he left for Wimbledon, before moving to Brentford and spending a month on loan at Torquay United.

He returned to Rovers, by now playing at Twerton Park, in 1987, under Gerry Francis, and spent a second four-year spell in the Rovers' engine-room.

In four seasons, he missed only five games and was a key player as Rovers gained promotion to the Second Division in 1990.

He followed Francis to Loftus Road a year later and spent five years at QPR, making 147 appearances in the top-flight of the English game.

Ollie became a firm favourite with the Loftus Road fans, before returning to Rovers in their debut season at Bristol's Memorial Ground as player-manager in May 1996.

Holloway took over a club that was struggling both on and off the pitch.

In his first season in charge of Rovers, he led the club to 17th place in Division Two (now League One) then led the Pirates to the Second Division play-offs in his second season, when they lost to Northampton in the 1997-98 semi-finals.

Two seasons later Rovers narrowly missed out on a play-off berth.

In February 2001, midway through the 2000-01 season, Holloway was appointed manager of QPR, where he was given the seemingly impossible task of keeping the now-struggling team in Division One.

He failed to do so, as QPR finished second from bottom and were relegated to the third level for the first time in 34 years.

Despite the relegation, Holloway stayed on and rebuilt the side.

After steadying the ship in 2001-02, and a near miss in 2002-03, Holloway and QPR were promoted back to the second level in 2004, finishing second behind Plymouth Argyle.

Holloway's first full season in The Championship ended with a respectable 11th place, and during the following season 2005-06, the club continued to hover around mid-table.

He departed in February 2006 before being appointed as Argyle manager four months later.

The Pilgrims finished 11th in the Championship last season with 67 points from 46 games.

Ollie was named Leicester City boss at a 7pm press conference on Thursday, November 22. His first game in charge two days later saw the Foxes gain a 2-0 victory over Bristol City at Ashton Gate.

PLAYING CAREER	CLUB	APPEARANCES	GOALS
1981-1985	Bristol Rovers	127 (7)	17
1985-1986	Wimbledon	-	-
1986-1987	Brentford	32 (4)	2
1987	Torquay United	5	-
1987-1991	Bristol Rovers	214	30
1991-1996	Q.P.R.	151 (20)	5
1996-2000	Bristol Rovers	112 (11)	2
Total		664 (42)	58

MANAGERIAL CAREER	CLUB
1996-2001	Bristol Rovers
2001-2006	Q.P.R.
2006-2007	Plymouth Argyle
2007-Present	Leicester City

Assistant Managers: Tim Breacker and Des Bulpin

Head of Recruitment: Gary Penrice

Reserve Team Manager: Gerry Taggart

Goalkeeping Coach: Mike Stowell

Head Physio: Dave Rennie

Assistant Physio: Tom Freeman

Kit Man: Paul McAndrew

Academy Manager: Jon Rudkin

Academy Coach (U18): Steve Beaglehole

Academy Coach (U16): Trevor Peake