{"id":820,"date":"2026-06-01T12:40:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=820"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:40:42","slug":"dave-challinor-stockport-county-manager-leaves-league-one-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"Dave Challinor: Stockport County manager leaves League One club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Stockport County manager Dave Challinor has left the club by mutual consent after almost five years in charge.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Challinor, 50, led the Hatters from the National League to England&#8217;s third tier, but they missed out on promotion to the Championship this season with defeat by Bolton Wanderers in the League One play-off final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Stockport defender returned to Edgeley Park as manager in November 2021 and won 144 of his 268 games in the dugout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alongside his two promotions with the club, he previously went up a division five more times &#8211; once at Colwyn Bay in his first campaign as a manager, three times with Fylde and once with Hartlepool.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stockport County manager Dave Challinor has left the club by mutual consent after almost five years in charge. Challinor, 50,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}