Gareth Ainsworth
English footballer and manager
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| March 2025 | Joined Gillingham FC as head coach. |
| November 13 2024 | Appointed manager of Shrewsbury Town |
| November 13 2024 | Gareth Ainsworth was appointed head coach of Shrewsbury Town, who were positioned at the bottom of League One at the time of his appointment. |
| October 28 2023 | Ainsworth was dismissed from his position as Queens Park Rangers head coach following a 2–1 home loss against Leicester City, which was the club's sixth consecutive defeat and left them second-to-last in the league table after 14 matches in the 2023–24 season. |
| July 2023 | Released debut album with The Cold Blooded Hearts, produced by Yes keyboardist Geoff Downes. |
| February 2023 | Left Wycombe Wanderers to become head coach of QPR. |
| February 21 2023 | Returned to Queens Park Rangers as manager |
| February 21 2023 | Gareth Ainsworth was appointed as Queens Park Rangers head coach on a three-and-a-half-year contract, taking over a team that finished the 2022–23 Championship season in 20th place. |
| April 2022 | Won the League One Manager of the Month award after his team picked up 17 points and scored 13 goals from seven games. |
| 2020 | Reached EFL League One play-offs with Wycombe Wanderers. |
| 2020 | Led Wycombe Wanderers to promotion from League One, securing the club's first-ever Championship place. |
| February 2020 | Signed a new 'long-term' contract with Wycombe. |
| December 2019 | Graduated from the University of Liverpool with a Diploma in Professional Studies in Football Management. |
| November 2019 | Began fronting the band The Cold Blooded Hearts. |
| November 2019 | Named League One Manager of the Month after his team picked up ten points from four games without conceding a goal. |
| 2018 | Led Wycombe Wanderers to promotion from League Two. |
| June 2018 | Extended his contract by three years to remain as Wycombe boss. |
| January 2018 | Won League Two's Manager of the Month award after leading his side to four wins in four games. |
| 2017 | Achieved EFL League Two third-place promotion with Wycombe Wanderers. |
| November 2016 | Won the League Two Manager of the Month award for guiding the team from 21st to sixth place with four successive victories. |
| March 2015 | Won the League Two Manager of the Month award after Wycombe picked up fourteen points in six unbeaten games. |
| January 2015 | Signed a five-and-a-half-year contract and was named LMA Manager of the Year for League Two. |
| 2014 | Won LMA Football League Two Manager of the Year award. |
| April 2013 | Signed a new two-year managerial contract and announced his retirement as a player. |
| April 2013 | Retired from regular playing appearances to focus on management. |
| November 8 2012 | Appointed as Wycombe Wanderers' manager on a permanent basis. |
| October 6 2012 | Led Wycombe to victory over Torquay United, personally providing the cross for the opening goal of the game. |
| September 24 2012 | Ainsworth appointed as Wycombe Wanderers's caretaker manager following the sacking of Gary Waddock, with the team having picked up only four points from seven league games. |
| 2010 | Achieved Football League Two third-place promotion with Wycombe Wanderers and was named to the PFA Team of the Year for League Two. |
| 2010 | Named in the PFA League Two Team of the Year. |
| October 21 2010 | Represented the English Football League at the unveiling of the Footballers' Battalions memorial on the site of the Battle of the Somme. |
| February 2010 | Joined Wycombe Wanderers. |
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