Alan Devonshire’s Maidenhead United career in numbers

Alan Devonshire’s tenure as Maidenhead United manager will end on Saturday afternoon, his 913th game in charge of the Magpies.

Appointed for the first time to the York Road hot seat in the summer of 1996 to replace former player John Watt, Dev initially formed a joint partnership with former QPR player Martyn Busby at the Isthmian League Division 1 side (the equivalent of step 3 today).

Busby left in March 1997 and Devonshire pursued a solo career. Within weeks he had won United’s first first-team trophy since 1970 when Maidenhead claimed the Isthmian League Full Members Cup with a ‘giant-killing’ 3-0 win over Premier division side Aylesbury at Marlow. This was the first of five trophies Dev won from eight cup finals; he led Maidenhead to the first of four county cup successes in 1998 and when his side were promoted from the Isthmian League division 1 in 2000 they were narrowly beaten in extra time by Premier division side Farnborough in the final of the Isthmian League Cup.

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That promotion in 1999/00 – after a painful ear loss in his first full solo season in 1997/98 – took United into the Isthmian Premier League for the first time since the club joined the league in 1973. Taking the club to the highest level they had ever reached in the pyramid, he repeated the trick when reappointed in 2015 – after successes at Hampton & Richmond and Braintree Town – winning the National League South the following season with a remarkable 98 points, with averaged 2.3 points per game in what was then a 42-game season as Maidenhead reached Step 1 for the first time.

Eight seasons as a part-time team in the National League saw some lows but many more highs as Maidenhead competed against many former EFL sides before losing their battle to stay in the league on the final day of 2024/25 by just one point.

Alan Devonshire’s Maidenhead United record in numbers to date:

With Martyn Busy – Played 41 matches, won 15 drew 7 lost 19, scored 53 goals, goals
against 59.

As sole manager – Played 870 matches, won 351 drawn 189 lost 330, scored 1,269 goals,
goals against 1162.

Complete record at MUFC – Played 911 games, won 366, drawn 196, lost 349, goals
for 1322 goals versus 1221.

Promotion won – 2 (Isthmian League Division 1 1999/00, National League South
(as champion) 2016/17).

Trophies won – 5 (1996/97 Isthmian League Full Members Cup, Berks & Bucks
Senior Cup 1997/98, 1998/99, 2002/03, 2016/17).