Below is a list of our permanent first-team managers.
| 1920 | Harry Marshall |
| 1920-22 | Jack Smith |
| 1923-25 | Arthur Chadwick |
| 1925-26 | Harold Bray |
| 1926-31 | Angus Wylie |
| 1931-35 | Joe Smith |
| 1935-39 | Billy Butler |
| 1939 | Johnny Cochrane |
| 1939-47 | Joe Edelston |
| 1947-52 | Ted Drake |
| 1952-55 | Arthur Smith |
| 1955-63 | Harry Johnston |
| 1963-69 | Roy Bentley |
| 1969-71 | Jack Mansell |
| 1972-77 | Charlie Hurley |
| 1977-84 | Maurice Evans |
| 1984-89 | Ian Branfoot |
| 1989-91 | Ian Porterfield |
| 1991-94 | Mark McGhee |
| 1995-97 | Jimmy Quinn & Mick Gooding |
| 1997-98 | Terry Bullivant |
| 1998-99 | Tommy Burns |
| 1999-03 | Alan Pardew |
| 2003-09 | Steve Coppell |
| 2009 | Brendan Rodgers |
| 2009-13 | Brian McDermott |
| 2013-14 | Nigel Adkins |
| 2014-15 | Steve Clarke |
| 2015-16 | Brian McDermott |
| 2016-present | Jaap Stam |