 Hateley in 1994 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mark Wayne Hateley | ||
| Date of birth | (1961-11-07)7 November 1961 (age 64) | ||
| Place of birth | Derby,Derbyshire, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)[citation needed] | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Nottingham Forest | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1978–1983 | Coventry City | 93 | (25) |
| 1980 | →Detroit Express (loan) | 19 | (2) |
| 1983–1984 | Portsmouth | 38 | (22) |
| 1984–1987 | AC Milan | 66 | (17) |
| 1987–1990 | Monaco | 59 | (22) |
| 1990–1995 | Rangers | 165 | (87) |
| 1995–1997 | Queens Park Rangers | 27 | (3) |
| 1996 | →Leeds United (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 1997 | Rangers | 4 | (1) |
| 1997–1998 | Hull City | 21 | (3) |
| 1999 | Ross County | 2 | (0) |
| Total | 500 | (182) | |
| International career | |||
| 1979–1980 | England Youth | 7 | (5) |
| 1982–1984 | England U21 | 10 | (8) |
| 1984–1992 | England | 32 | (9) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1997–1998 | Hull City | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Mark Wayne Hateley (born 7 November 1961) is an English former professionalfootballer who played as astriker. He started his career withCoventry City in theFirst Division of English football. A spell followed atEnglish Second Division clubPortsmouth, where he ended the 1983–84 season as the club's top goalscorer. He then moved to Italian clubAC Milan, where he suffered several injuries (requiring four operations);[1] however, he did score the winning goal againstcity rivalsInter Milan in 1984.
In 1987, Hateley signed for French clubMonaco, winningLigue 1 in his first season at theMonegasque club. In 1990, he signed forScottish Premier Division clubRangers. In his five-year spell in Glasgow, he was a part of a title-winning squad in every season, and he attained personal success in the1993–94 season, as he was voted both theSFWA Footballer of the Year and theSPFA Players' Player of the Year, as well as the league's top goalscorer with 22 goals. He briefly rejoined the club in 1997, as there were no available forwards for theOld Firm match, but was sent off on his second debut. In 1999, Hateley was named as part ofRangers' greatest-ever team, and in 2003 he was inducted toRangers' Hall of Fame.
From 1984 to 1992, Hateley made 32 appearances for theEngland national team, scoring nine goals. He was a member of thesquads for the1986 FIFA World Cup andUEFA Euro 1988.
Hateley was born inDerby[2] on 7 November 1961. His father,Tony, was also a professional footballer who played as a striker for such clubs asNotts County,Aston Villa,Coventry City andChelsea.
Hateley trained withNottingham Forest whilst still at school; however, he was rejected by then-managerBrian Clough, who did not believe he was sufficiently talented.[3] Upon leaving school, he joinedCoventry City and started his career in professional football, playing over 90 games in theFirst Division before moving toPortsmouth in theSecond Division in the summer of 1983. He scored 22 league goals for them in the1983–84 season.[4]
On 28 June 1984, he was transferred toAC Milan for£1 million.[4] He scored a decisive and historic match-winning goal in a 2–1 win againstInter in theMilan Derby on 28 October 1984, beating out former Milan defenderFulvio Collovati with a header; this was the first time Milan had beaten Inter in the Derby in six years.[5][6][7][8]
Arsène Wenger then brought him toAS Monaco, his first signing for the club,[1] in 1987 and he was part of the team which won theFrench Division 1 title in the 1987–88 season.[9]Ayrton Senna lived in the apartment below him, andBoris Becker lived next door, during part of his time in Monaco. Senna playedfive-a-side football with Hateley.[1]
After three years at Monaco, a 28-year-old Hateley returned to Britain in a £1 million move toRangers on 19 July 1990, taking an 80% reduction compared to his pay at Milan.[1] ManagerGraeme Souness had attempted to bring him toIbrox three years earlier from Milan.[10] Hateley became a key part of the Rangers side, and was voted player of the year by the Scottish Football Writers in the1993–94 season. He scored 112 goals for theGers in all competitions, including two that clinched the championship on the final day in1991[11][12] and one in each of the narrowScottish Cup final victories in1992 and1993. Rangers were league champions in every season that Hateley played for them (scoring 85Scottish Premier Division goals in the process), as they went on a run ofnine successive titles, which lasted from 1989 until 1997.[13]
As for Hateley's renowned strike partnership at Rangers withAlly McCoist, Hateley said: "Alistair was the perfect partner for me. As a finisher, he was an unbelievable goal scorer. He linked with me. All the goal scorer does is he looks at the leader of the line and makes sure he's offset, fifteen yards away. It was a great partnership"[1] In the1992–93 season, Rangers scored 97 goals. McCoist won theEuropean Golden Boot, with 49 of them, and Hateley scored 29.[14] He finished in third place for theSFWA award in 1993.[15]
After making 218 appearances for Rangers, he moved toQueens Park Rangers in November 1995, for a fee of £1.5 million.[16] He had just recovered from having concurrent operations on his knee and ankle. Hateley said in 2021: "My dad always said to never make a decision when injured, or in ill-health, because invariably it will be the wrong decision, an emotional decision. I knew after literally ten days that it was the wrong move."[1]
In early 1997, with Rangers trying to win their ninth title in a row and with a long injury list, managerWalter Smith desperately needed a striker, and re-signed Hateley for £300,000 to play in the vital game against Rangers' biggest rivalsCeltic.[17] Rangers won the game 1–0, but Hateley was sent off for headbuttingStewart Kerr.[18] He played four times in his second spell at Rangers, scoring once, and transferred toHull City in July 1997, where he fulfilled the role of player-manager.[4][19] Hateley managed Hull from the summer of 1997 until November 1998.[20]
Hateley ended his playing career withRoss County in September 1999, playing two games for them.[21][22] "It was a great time. I really did enjoy myself up there. It was a logistic nightmare for me, because I was staying down inDerby and going through a divorce. I was having to fly fromEast Midlands intoGlasgow and then I had twenty minutes to make a connection to get up there, and I could never make it."[1]
On 2 June 1984, Hateley was capped forEngland at senior level for the first time in a 2–0 friendly defeat to theSoviet Union. In his next game, eight days later, he scored in a 2–0 victory overBrazil, to date England's only away victory against Brazil. By the end of 1984, he had been capped six times by England and scored three goals. He played a significant role in England's successful qualifying campaign for the1986 FIFA World Cup, scoring important goals againstFinland andNorthern Ireland. However England started slowly in the tournament itself and after two disappointing results (a defeat againstPortugal and a draw againstMorocco), Hateley was among players dropped, being replaced byPeter Beardsley. England won their next match againstPoland and Hateley thereafter fell out of favour. He made the last of his 32 appearances in a 2–2 friendly draw withCzechoslovakia in 1992.[23]
A traditional target man, Hateley was a physical centre-forward who was known in particular for his strength in the air and ability to score goals with his head.[5]
Hateley has been married twice,[1] and has four children from his first marriage. Hateley's sonTom, who was born inMonaco during his father's spell atAS Monaco, is also a footballer.[24]
Paul Gascoigne lived with Hateley for two weeks, after signing for Rangers in July 1995 for a club-record £4.3 million.[1]
In 2021, Hateley released his autobiographyHitting the Mark: My Story.[25]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Continental | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Coventry City | 1978–79 | First Division | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | |
| 1979–80 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 5 | 0 | |||
| 1980–81[27] | 19 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | – | 28 | 5 | |||
| 1981–82 | 34 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | – | 40 | 18 | |||
| 1982–83 | 35 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 38 | 11 | |||
| Total | 93 | 25 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 3 | — | 112 | 34 | |||
| Detroit Express (loan) | 1980[28] | NASL | 19 | 2 | – | – | – | 19 | 2 | |||
| Portsmouth | 1983–84 | Second Division | 38 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | – | 44 | 25 | |
| Milan | 1984–85 | Serie A | 21 | 7 | 7 | 1 | – | – | 28 | 8 | ||
| 1985–86 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 1 | – | 4[c] | 2 | 30 | 11 | |||
| 1986–87 | 23 | 2 | 5 | 0 | – | – | 28 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 66 | 17 | 16 | 2 | — | 4 | 2 | 86[29] | 21[29] | |||
| Monaco | 1987–88 | Ligue 1 | 28 | 14 | 3 | 0 | – | – | 31 | 14 | ||
| 1988–89 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 1 | – | 2[d] | 0 | 21 | 7 | |||
| 1989–90 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | 0 | 16 | 3 | |||
| Total | 59 | 22 | 5 | 2 | — | 4 | 0 | 68 | 24 | |||
| Rangers | 1990–91 | Scottish Premier Division | 33 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2[d] | 1 | 42 | 15 |
| 1991–92 | 30 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1[d] | 0 | 35 | 23 | ||
| 1992–93[30] | 37 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8[e] | 3 | 54 | 27 | ||
| 1993–94[31] | 42 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2[e] | 2 | 55 | 30 | ||
| 1994–95 | 23 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2[e] | 0 | 28 | 15 | ||
| 1995–96[32] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2[e] | 0 | 4 | 2 | ||
| Total | 165 | 85 | 17 | 10 | 19 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 218 | 112 | ||
| Queens Park Rangers | 1995–96 | Premier League | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 16 | 2 | |
| 1996–97 | Division One | 13 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 17 | 3 | ||
| Total | 27 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | 33 | 5 | |||
| Leeds United (loan) | 1996–97 | Premier League | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 6 | 0 | |
| Rangers | 1996–97 | Scottish Premier Division | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Hull City | 1997–98 | Division Three | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | 14 | 0 | |
| 1998–99 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 13 | 3 | |||
| Total | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | 27 | 3 | |||
| Ross County | 1999–2000 | Scottish Second Division | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | |
| Career total | 500 | 180 | 56 | 23 | 38 | 16 | 25 | 8 | 619 | 227 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1984 | 6 | 3 |
| 1985 | 8 | 3 | |
| 1986 | 7 | 3 | |
| 1987 | 4 | 0 | |
| 1988 | 6 | 0 | |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 32 | 9 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 June 1984 | Maracanã Stadium,Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |  Brazil | 2–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
| 2 | 17 October 1984 | Wembley Stadium,London, England |  Finland | 1–0 | 5–0 | 1986 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 3 | 3–0 | |||||
| 4 | 27 February 1985 | Windsor Park,Belfast, Northern Ireland |  Northern Ireland | 1–0 | 1–0 | |
| 5 | 22 May 1985 | Helsinki Olympic Stadium,Helsinki, Finland | Finland | 1–1 | 1–1 | |
| 6 | 6 June 1985 | Estadio Azteca,Mexico City, Mexico |  Italy | 1–1 | 1–2 | Ciudad de México Cup |
| 7 | 17 May 1986 | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum,Los Angeles, United States |  Mexico | 1–0 | 3–0 | Friendly |
| 8 | 2–0 | |||||
| 9 | 24 May 1986 | Swangard Stadium,Burnaby, Canada |  Canada | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | ||||
| Hull City |  | 15 July 1997 | 11 November 1998 | 76 | 17 | 14 | 45 | 022.37 |
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