City Appoint Highly Rated Assistant Head Coach

Lincoln City’s new assistant head coach Danny Butterfield photographed at the club’s BMW Soper of Lincoln Elite Performance Centre, Scampton, Lincolnshire. Picture: Chris Vaughan Photography Ltd for Lincoln City FC Date: December 23, 2022

This afternoon the Imps appointed the highly rated Danny Butterfield to replace the outgoing Mike Garrity as our new assistant head coach.

Butterfield was born in Boston and comes into the Imps from Southampton, where he was the Saints’ Academy loan manager. Danny is known in the world of football having played for a number of clubs, including Crystal Palace, Southampton and our rivals Grimsby Town.

Butterfield was named Southampton’s Under-18 team’s assistant manager in September 2016. In August of 2018, he resigned from his post as Southampton’s academy coach and hired on as the first-team coach of League Two outfit Milton Keynes Dons. Following a bad run of results, Butterfield’s contract with the club was terminated towards the end of 2019, along with manager Paul Tisdale and assistant Matt Oakley, who had led MK Dons to promotion from League Two in the 2018–19 campaign.

***Credit: Graham Burrell – A new assistant manager to assist Mark.***

He was hired as Mark Kennedy’s assistant manager of Macclesfield Town in January 2020. The two initially guided Town to safety after avoiding relegation from the Football League, but once the season was over, a deduction of 17 points doomed them to relegation, sparing Stevenage. In August, Butterfield and Kennedy left the team after declining new contracts. He joins up with Kennedy again at City, replacing Garrity as assistant manager who departed to join back up with Neil Critchley at Queens Park Rangers.

City Director of Football, Jez George said: “This is a fantastic appointment for the club on several levels. Danny has previously worked with Mark and has a close relationship with him but he also brings a wealth of expertise and experience to us from his previous roles at Southampton within their academy and loans department.

“He knows League One, he will help us in our recruitment processes and with the development pathways for our young homegrown players but most importantly, supporting Mark on a day to day basis with the coaching of the first team squad.

“We thank Southampton for their help and understanding, welcome Danny to Lincoln City and look forward to working with him.”