Warren Patmore is a former non-league

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most notable for his career with Yeovil Town where he is considered one of the club's greatest ever players, scoring 140 goals in 287 games for the Glovers, making him the club's third top goal-scorer of all time.Soccer stats for Warren Patmore
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Playing career

Patmore played for many league clubs including

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and

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. He then went to Northern Ireland to play for

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before finding first team football at non-league club Yeovil Town. In the summer of 2001 Patmore moved to

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, scoring on his debut for Rushden against

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. Patmore also played for the England non-league side on a number of occasions before ending his career at

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in 2003.

Managerial career

Patmore was an instant success with Management gaining two promotions in three seasons with Devon & Exeter Football League side

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. Looking for a return to

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Patmore applied unsuccessfully for the vacant managerial job at Taunton Town. However he was successful with his application for the managerial position at

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in June 2009. In what was only Wellington's second season in the Premier Division he guided them to a tenth-place finish. On 9 May 2010, Patmore resigned as Wellington manager, citing distance to travel as the main reason behind his resignation. In June 2010 he was appointed as the new manager of

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side

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, but left the club in November by mutual consent after issues with the chairman, and the club mid-table. He later managed Crediton United but left the club after leading the club to their highest placed league finish in 21 years of 4th, due to "club lacking the ambition to move forward". He subsequently took charge of Tiverton Town's reserve team, but quit at the end of the 2016–17 season.

Season by season

Honours

Managerial

Morchard Bishop

*Devon & Exeter Senior Division 3 League winners 2006–07 *Devon & Exeter Senior Division 4 League runners up 2007–08 (Champions Beacon Knights)

Crediton Utd

*South West Peninsula Football League 4th-place finish 2011-12

Tiverton Town Reserves

*Devon & Exeter Senior Premier Runners up 2012-13 *Devon & Exeter Senior Premier League Winners 2013-14 *Throgmorton Champion's Cup Winners 2013-14 *Southwest Peninsula League East Winners 2015-16

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Patmore, Warren 1971 births English men's footballers Footballers from Kingsbury, London Northwood F.C. players Cambridge United F.C. players Bashley F.C. players Millwall F.C. players Cobh Ramblers F.C. players Northampton Town F.C. players Dundalk F.C. players Ards F.C. players Yeovil Town F.C. players Rushden & Diamonds F.C. players Woking F.C. players Margate F.C. players Wellington A.F.C. players League of Ireland players English football managers Wellington A.F.C. managers Crediton United A.F.C. managers Elmore F.C. managers Living people Men's association football forwards