Tony Ricketts

{{Short description|Welsh football manager (born c. 1958)}}

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Tony Ricketts (born c. 1958) is a former semi-professional footballer.

As a player, at 24 years old, he was offered a two-year contract with Bristol City, which he refused. In 1989, he joined Bath City, where he became first a coach and then manager, spending seven years at the club in all. He played 700 games at conference level in his career.{{cite web |url=http://www.thefa.com/Womens/PremierLeague/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2003/03/43425.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20040514011652/http://www.thefa.com/Womens/PremierLeague/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2003/03/43425.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 May 2004 |title=Managers' Monthly: Tony Ricketts |publisher=The Football Association |date=19 March 2003 |accessdate=16 May 2008}}

After leaving Bath, Ricketts worked for the Gloucestershire FA running the county's representative teams, as well as the ladies and under-18s sides. From here he earned a job with the Bristol Rovers women's team, who at the time were in the FA Women's Premier League Southern Division. In his first season at Rovers the team finished runners-up to the league's only professional side, Fulham L.F.C., and in his second year the team cantered to the league title, winning it with a quarter of the season still to spare.

After managing the women's side he went on to manage Bristol Rovers' under-18s' team, and was later appointed manager at Weston-super-Mare.

He was manager of Paulton Rovers for 18 months from October 2015 to April 2017.{{cite web |url=http://nonleague.pitchero.com/uncategorized/ricketts-leaves-boss-paulton-rovers/ |title=Ricketts Leaves As Boss of Paulton Rovers |date=28 April 2017 |publisher=Non-League |accessdate=19 September 2019}}