Justin Edinburgh

Justin Edinburgh

Edinburgh in 2016
Personal information
Full name	Justin Charles Edinburgh[1]
Date of birth	(1969-12-18)18 December 1969[1]
Place of birth	Basildon, England
Date of death	8 June 2019(2019-06-08) (aged 49)
Position(s)	Left back[1]
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1988–1990	Southend United	37	(0)
1990	→ Tottenham Hotspur (loan)	0	(0)
1990–2000	Tottenham Hotspur	215	(1)
2000	→ Portsmouth (loan)	1	(0)
2000–2003	Portsmouth	34	(1)
2003–2006	Billericay Town
Total		287	(2)
Teams managed
2003–2006	Billericay Town (player-manager)
2006	Fisher Athletic
2007–2008	Grays Athletic
2009–2011	Rushden & Diamonds
2011–2015	Newport County
2015–2017	Gillingham
2017	Northampton Town
2017–2019	Leyton Orient
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Justin Charles Edinburgh (18 December 1969 – 8 June 2019) was an English professional football player and manager. He played as a left back.

Life and career

Edinburgh was born in Basildon.^[1] He started his playing career at Southend United in 1988. He was loaned to Tottenham Hotspur in 1990 and signed a contract with the club that same year. During his time at Totteham between 1990 and 2000, Edinburgh made 258 appearances for the club and scored once. He also won two trophies with Spurs, the 1990–91 FA Cup and the 1998–99 Football League Cup. He signed for Portsmouth in 2000. He left the club in 2003 to become player-manager of Billericay Town.

After retiring from playing, Edinburgh moved into full-time management, starting in 2006. He managed many lower-league and non-league clubs, including Rushden & Diamonds, Newport County, Gillingham and Northampton Town. He was the manager of Leyton Orient at the time of his death in June 2019.

Edinburgh was married and had two children. He died of a cardiac arrest on 8 June 2019, at the age of 49.^[2]

Managerial statistics

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	From	To	Record					Ref.
			P	W	D	L	Win %
Grays Athletic	5 January 2007	20 February 2008	63	24	13	26	038.1	[3]
Rushden & Diamonds	10 February 2009	7 July 2011	116	48	34	34	041.4	[4][5][6]
Newport County	4 October 2011	7 February 2015	181	75	46	60	041.4	[7]
Gillingham	7 February 2015	3 January 2017	101	39	26	36	038.6	[7][8]
Northampton Town	16 January 2017	31 August 2017	25	6	6	13	024.0	[9][10][11]
Leyton Orient	29 November 2017	8 June 2019	82	45	21	16	054.9	[7]
Total			568	237	146	185	041.7	—

Honours

As a player

Tottenham Hotspur

• FA Cup: 1990–91^[12]
• FA Charity Shield: 1991 (shared)^[13]
• Football League Cup: 1998–99^[14]

As a manager

Newport County

• FA Trophy runner-up: 2011–12^[15]
• Conference Premier play-offs: 2013^[16]

Leyton Orient

• National League: 2018–19^[17]
• FA Trophy runner-up: 2018–19^[18]

Individual

• Conference Premier/National League Manager of the Month: April/May 2013,^[19] November 2018,^[20] March 2019^[21]
• Leyton Orient Hall of Fame^[22]

References

1. "Justin Edinburgh". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
2. "Justin Edinburgh: Leyton Orient manager dies at the age of 49". BBC Sport. 8 June 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
3. "Grays and Edinburgh part company". BBC Sport. 20 February 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
4. "Hill resigns as Rushden manager". BBC Sport. 10 February 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
5. "Rushden & Diamonds enter administration". BBC Sport. 7 July 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
6. "Rushden: Results/matches: 2008/09". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 3 April 2017. Individual seasons accessed via dropdown menu.
7. "Managers: Justin Edinburgh". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
8. "Gillingham 2–0 Sheffield United". BBC Sport. 7 February 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
9. "Northampton Town: Justin Edinburgh named new manager of League One club". BBC Sport. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
10. "Justin Edinburgh: Northampton Town part company with manager". BBC Sport. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
11. "Northampton Town FC: Matches". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
12. "Spurs v Forest, 1991". Tottenham Hotspur F.C. 9 August 2004. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
13. "The F.A. Community Shield 1991 – Final". leballonrond.fr. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
14. "Nielsen nicks it for Spurs". BBC News. 22 March 1999. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
15. "FA Trophy: Newport County 0–2 York City". 12 May 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
16. Hughes, Dewi (5 May 2013). "Wrexham 0–2 Newport". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 18 April 2014.
17. "Leyton Orient 0 – 0 Braintree Town". BBC Sport. 27 April 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
18. Stevens, Rob (19 May 2019). "AFC Fylde 1–0 Leyton Orient". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
19. "Newport boss Justin Edinburgh wins manager of month award". 13 May 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
20. "Justin Edinburgh named National League Manager of the Month". The Non League Football Paper. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
21. "National League March awards". The Non League Football Paper. 5 April 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
22. "Hall of Fame". Leyton Orient. Retrieved 12 October 2023.

Other websites

• Justin Edinburgh at Soccerbase