Mark Hateley
Hateley in 1994
Personal information
Full name Mark Wayne Hateley
Date of birth (1961-11-07) 7 November 1961
Place of birth Derby, Derbyshire, England
Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)[1]
Position(s) 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 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
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 professional footballer who played as a striker. He started his career with Coventry City in the First Division of English football. A spell followed at English Second Division club Portsmouth, where he ended the 1983–84 season as the club's top goalscorer. He then moved to Italian club A.C. Milan, where he suffered several injuries (requiring four operations);[2] however, he did score the winning goal against city rivals Inter Milan in 1984.

In 1987, Hateley signed for French club Monaco, winning Ligue 1 in his first season at the Monegasque club. In 1990, he signed for Scottish Premier Division club Rangers. 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 the 1993–94 season, as he was voted both the SFWA Footballer of the Year and the SPFA 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 the Old Firm match, but was sent off on his second debut. In 1999, Hateley was named as part of Rangers' greatest-ever team, and in 2003 he was inducted to Rangers' Hall of Fame.

From 1984 to 1992, Hateley made 32 appearances for the England national team, scoring nine goals. He was a member of the squads for the 1986 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1988.

Early life

Hateley was born in Derby[3] on 7 November 1961. His father, Tony, was also a professional footballer who played as a striker for such clubs as Notts County, Aston Villa, Coventry City and Chelsea.

Club career

Hateley trained with Nottingham Forest whilst still at school; however, he was rejected by then-manager Brian Clough, who did not believe he was sufficiently talented.[4] Upon leaving school, he joined Coventry City and started his career in professional football, playing over 90 games in the First Division before moving to Portsmouth in the Second Division in the summer of 1983. He scored 22 league goals for them in the 1983–84 season.[5]

On 28 June 1984, he was transferred to A.C. Milan for £1 million.[5] He scored a decisive and historic match-winning goal in a 2–1 win against Inter in the Milan Derby on 28 October 1984, beating out former Milan defender Fulvio Collovati with a header; this was the first time Milan had beaten Inter in the Derby in six years.[6][7][8][9]

Arsène Wenger then brought him to AS Monaco, his first signing for the club,[2] in 1987 and he was part of the team which won the French Division 1 title in 1987–88.[10] Ayrton Senna lived in the apartment below him, and Boris Becker lived next door, during part of his time in Monaco. Senna played five-a-side football with Hateley.[2]

After three years at Monaco, a 28-year-old Hateley returned to Britain in a £1 million move to Rangers on 19 July 1990, taking an 80% reduction compared to his pay at Milan.[2] Manager Graeme Souness had attempted to bring him to Ibrox three years earlier from Milan.[11] Hateley became a key part of the Rangers side, and was voted player of the year by the Scottish Football Writers in 1993–94. He scored 112 goals for the Gers in all competitions, including two that clinched the championship on the final day in 1991[12][13] and one in each of the narrow Scottish Cup final victories in 1992 and 1993. Rangers were league champions in every season that Hateley played for them (scoring 85 Scottish Premier Division goals in the process), as they went on a run of nine successive titles, which lasted from 1989 until 1997.[14]

As for Hateley's renowned strike partnership at Rangers with Ally 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"[2] In 1992–93, Rangers scored 97 goals. McCoist won the European Golden Boot, with 49 of them, and Hateley scored 29.[15]

After making 218 appearances for Rangers, he moved to Queens 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."[2]

In early 1997, with Rangers trying to win their ninth title in a row and with a long injury list, manager Walter Smith desperately needed a striker, and re-signed Hateley for £300,000 to play in the vital game against Rangers' biggest rivals Celtic.[17] Rangers won the game 1–0, but Hateley was sent off for headbutting Stewart Kerr.[18] He played four times in his second spell at Rangers, scoring once, and transferred to Hull City in July 1997, where he fulfilled the role of player-manager.[5][19] Hateley managed Hull from the summer of 1997 until November 1999.[20]

Hateley ended his playing career with Ross 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 in Derby and going through a divorce. I was having to fly from East Midlands into Glasgow and then I had twenty minutes to make a connection to get up there, and I could never make it."[2]

International career

On 2 June 1984, Hateley was capped for England at senior level for the first time in a 2–0 friendly defeat to the USSR. In his next game, eight days later, he scored in a 2–0 victory over Brazil, 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 the 1986 World Cup, scoring important goals against Finland and Northern Ireland. However England started slowly in the tournament itself and after two disappointing results (a defeat against Portugal and a draw against Morocco), Hateley was among players dropped, being replaced by Peter Beardsley. England won their next match against Poland and Hateley thereafter fell out of favour. He made the last of his 32 appearances in a 2–2 friendly draw with Czechoslovakia in 1992.[23]

Style of play

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.[6]

Personal life

Hateley is once divorced.[2] He has four children: Emma, Lucy, Faye and Tom. Tom, who was born in Monaco during father's spell at AS 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.[2]

In 2021, Hateley released his autobiography Hitting the Mark: My Story.[25]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[1][26]
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Continental Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Coventry City 1978–79 First Division 100000–10
1979–80 401000–50
1980–81[27] 1933062–285
1981–82 34134421–4018
1982–83 3593200–3811
Total 932511683—11234
Detroit Express (loan) 1980[28] NASL 192–––192
Portsmouth 1983–84 Second Division 38222142–4425
Milan 1984–85 Serie A 21771––288
1985–86 22841–423011
1986–87 23250––282
Total 6617162—4286[29]21[29]
Monaco 1987–88 Ligue 1 281430––3114
1988–89 18611–20217
1989–90 13211–20163
Total 592252—406824
Rangers 1990–91 Scottish Premier Division 33103242214215
1991–92 30212220103523
1992–93[30] 37195243835427
1993–94[31] 42226452225530
1994–95 23131022202815
1995–96[32] 0000222042
Total 1658517101911176218112
Queens Park Rangers 1995–96 Premier League 1421010–162
1996–97 Division One 1314200–173
Total 2735210—335
Leeds United (loan) 1996–97 Premier League 600000–60
Rangers 1996–97 Scottish Premier Division 4100000041
Hull 1997–98 Division Three 900050–140
1998–99 1230010–133
Total 2130060—273
Ross County 1999–2000 Scottish Second Division 200000–20
Career total 50018056233816258619227

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year[33]
National teamYearAppsGoals
England 198463
198583
198673
198740
198860
199210
Total329

Honours

Monaco

Rangers

England under-21

Individual

References

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