Job Advert - First Team Manager

Blyth Spartans AFC is seeking applications for the role of First-Team Manager with immediate effect.

Our community club is facing a challenging but exciting future as we continue our total reset and rebuilding project. The last few seasons have been traumatic, culminating in relegation down to the Northern Premier League Eastern Division and along the way surviving an existential threat to the entire future of the club. We are currently precariously placed in the relegation places of that league.

Now under community ownership we are planning a new era, with the vision of building “an outstanding inclusive community club, playing football at the highest sustainable level”.

We are developing innovative plans off the pitch, and we are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic first-team manager to lead the vital footballing side of this project. Their first challenge will to be ensure that we avoid a third successive relegation; in the process, we want to make progress towards our longer-term development aims.

We need someone with vision, character and dynamism - alongside proven successful experience as a coach and manager and extensive contacts within the game. Budgets will initially still be tight as we rebuild and grow the club, but we want someone who can manage the financial side while recruiting and developing an exciting young playing squad to compete in the league this season and beyond.

If you believe you can deliver what we need, then we want to hear from you.

Please apply with your current CV and an explanation of why you think you're right for this role.

The deadline for applications is 3:00pm on Tuesday, 4th November 2025. We plan to hold interviews on Thursday, 6th November with a view to making an immediate appointment and having our new manager in post for the game on 8th November.