List of Margate F.C. managers

He held the post for two years before being controversially sacked over claims his outside business interests were interfering with his management of the team.

Les Riggs was the next manager and remained in the job for six years but resigned over budget restrictions.

Over the following decade, a number of managers came and went in quick succession as the club's financial problems increased.

[1] In the late 1980s and early 1990s former professional players such as Tommy Taylor and Mark Weatherly managed the club with little success, but in 1996, former Dover Athletic manager, Chris Kinnear, took charge and oversaw the club's rise to the Conference National, the highest level of non-league football.

The club experienced various off-field problems during this period and had fallen back to the Isthmian League Premier Division by the time Kinnear was dismissed in 2006, with former Gillingham player Robin Trott taking over.