- A. ^ : Managers are listed in chronological order. Caretakers are not included.
- B. ^ : Statistics are sourced to Danes (2009), Complete Record, up to and including the 2008–09 season, and to Soccerbase thereafter.
- C. ^ : Bretell won the Western League title in 1905.
- D. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n : Managers who also played for the club competitively.
- E. ^ : The club chose to operate with a committee between 1907 and 1910.
- F. a b c d : Managers who returned for a second term.
- G. ^ : Jack won the Southern League in 1913, and Third Division South in 1930.
- H. ^ : Matches played in the abandoned 1939–40 season and subsequent wartime competitions, including the 1945–46 Football League season, are generally not included by football statisticians.
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- I. ^ : Rae won the Third Division South title in the 1951–52 season.
- J. ^ : Rowley won the Third Division title in the 1958–59 season.
- K. ^ : Waiters won promotion from the Third Division in the 1974–75 season.
- L. ^ : Smith won promotion from the Third Division in the 1985–86 season.
- M. ^ : Warnock won promotion from the Third Division via the play-offs in the 1995–96 season.
- N. ^ : Sturrock won the Third Division in 2002, and the Second Division in 2004.
- O. ^ : Williamson achieved the unlikely feat of winning a league title in his first game as manager. He succeeded Paul Sturrock, who was in charge for 34 league games that season.
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