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Ronnie Jepson
Personal information
Full name	Ronald Francis Jepson
Date of birth	May 12, 1963 (age 43)
Place of birth	Audley, England
Nickname	Rocket Ronnie
Playing position	Striker
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1988 1988-1990 1989 1990-1991 1991-1993 1993-1995 1996-1997 1997-1998 1998-2000	Nantwich Town Port Vale → Peterborough United (loan) Preston North End Exeter City Huddersfield Town Bury Oldham Athletic Burnley	unknown 022 0(0) 018 0(5) 038 0(8) 054 (21) 107 (36) 047 0(9) 009 0(4) 059 0(3)
Teams managed
2005-	Gillingham
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Ronald Francis "Ronnie" Jepson (born May 12, 1963 in Audley, England) is a football manager, currently manager of Gillingham in Football League One. In 2006 he obtained the UEFA Pro Licence qualification.

A relative latecomer to the professional game at 25, when he transferred from Nantwich Town, he started his league career at Port Vale, and then moved on to Exeter City where he established himself with 21 goals in 54 games.

In 1993 Huddersfield Town paid Exeter £70,000 for his services, and whilst there he formed a successful strike partnership with Andy Booth, scoring 36 goals and helping the side to get promotion in 1995. When he was at Huddersfield he earned the nickname Rocket Ronnie. Moves followed to Bury, Oldham Athletic and Burnley, where an achilles problem at the end of the 2000-2001 season ended his playing days. Stan Ternent, who had signed Jepson at both Bury and Burnley, then appointed him to his first coaching role as reserve coach at the Clarets.

In May 2004, Ternent's contract at Burnley was not renewed by the club and Jepson was let go along with him. In December of the same year, Ternent became manager at Gillingham, and Jepson joined him, again as assistant manager. Although the Gills' fortunes improved, they narrowly failed to escape relegation from the Football League Championship. Ternent left the club during the summer, but Jepson remained, as assistant to new manager Neale Cooper.

The 2005-06 season did not start well for Gillingham, and following a run of bad results and an FA Cup defeat to non-league Burscough, Cooper resigned and Jepson was appointed manager on 15 November 2005, initially on a caretaker basis, but he signed a two year contract within the first two months, although this was not made public until several months later. Jepson turned the season around, and the Gills, having flirted with relegation danger, finally finished in 14th place with 60 points.

During the close season Jepson's assistant Mick Docherty, who had been on a short-term contract, signed a new two-year contract for the role, and Jepson was able to make long term adjustments to the playing squad.

• Ronnie Jepson management career stats at Soccerbase

Preceded by Neale Cooper

Gillingham F.C. Manager 2005–

Succeeded by Incumbent

Gillingham F.C. - Current Squad
1 Jack | 2 Jupp | 3 Jackman | 4 Flynn | 5 Sancho | 6 Cox | 7 Crofts | 8 Bentley | 9 Mulligan | 10 McDonald | 11 Southall | 12 Easton | 13 Larrieu | 14 Johnson | 15 Howell | 16 Clohessy | 17 Pugh | 18 Stone | 19 Collin | 20 Chorley | 21 Jarvis | 22 Spiller | 23 Bastians | 24 Ndumbu-Nsungu | 26 Tonge | Manager: Jepson