John Haselden

John James Haselden (3 August 1943 – 30 March 2020) was an English professional footballer, manager and physiotherapist. As a player, he was a central defender.

Haselden played the professional game for 13 years and played for Doncaster Rovers, Rotherham United and had a loan spell at Mansfield Town.

Haselden started his career at Rotherham United in 1961. He spent 7 years at Rotherham and played 99 games. He then moved to hometown club Doncaster Rovers in 1968.

Doncaster Rovers were Haselden's hometown club and he was to make 172 appearances in the next 6 years. He also scored 20 goals. He also had a loan spell at Mansfield between 1971 and 1972 where he played 4 games. In 1974, he retired from the game and joined Mansfield Town's coaching staff.

In 1987, Haselden had a run-out in a friendly at Reading, where he was working as a coach, at the age of 45.

Haselden was Mansfield Town's First Team Coach and in his first season as coach Mansfield won the Fourth Division title.

Haselden joined Huddersfield Town in early 1976 as a physiotherapist/coach under Tom Johnston. In April 1977, with Huddersfield's hopes of promotion now looking slim, the club's board of directors decided to make a change. They voted Johnston out of the manager's position and replaced him with Haselden. Johnston moved upstairs to General Manager and Haselden had the title of Team Manager. Haselden oversaw the remaining games of the 1976-77 season before he began planning for the following campaign.

In the pre-season of the 1977-78 season, Huddersfield won the Shipp Cup under Haselden's charge and debuted a new style of play, which saw the side playing out from the back. Results were not forthcoming and after slipping down to 91st in The Football League in September 1977, the board made another switch, with Haselden reverting to coach and Johnston returning as manager. Haselden was the club's shortest serving manager (lasting 160 days) until Danny Schofield was sacked in September 2022 after just 69 days in charge.

Johnston remained at the club until August 1978 and after he retired, fellow coach Mick Buxton took over as caretaker manager. When Buxton was given the role full-time in October, he made Haselden his assistant manager/physiotherapist and in their full season at the helm Town won the Fourth Division title. Town also gained promotion from Division Three in 1983. In the summer of 1986, Haselden was sacked for "economy reasons".

In 1986 Haselden joined Reading's coaching staff. He took caretaker charge of Reading in 1991 for a couple of weeks. He left Reading in 1993 to join Nottingham Forest.

As of 9 April 2009.

Haselden joined Forest as a physiotherapist where he worked for nine years before leaving to join Aston Villa in 2002. He left in 2004 for Notts County. He spent 4 years at Notts before being replaced by Paul Smith in July 2008.

Doncaster Rovers

• Fourth Division champions: 1968–69

Mansfield Town

• Fourth Division champions: 1974–75

Huddersfield Town

• Third Division runners-up: 1982–83
• Fourth Division champions: 1979–80

Reading

• Simod Cup: 1987–88