Jim Leaver
Appointed Manager: August 1939
Departed:

WWII ended football for Mossley: May 1940

First game in charge: 26th August 1939
v Stockport County Reserves home W 2-1
Last game in charge: 27th April 1940
v Macclesfield away W 4-3
Games in charge: Played 30 Won 8 Drawn 8 Lost 14
Honours with Mossley none

Clubs as Player:

Blackburn Rovers (Youth)
Blackpool
Watford
Mossley
Stalybridge Celtic

Previous Clubs as Manager   Stalybridge Celtic
Later Clubs as Manager   none

Born on 26th December 1898 in Blackburn, ex Football League player James 'Jim' Leaver signed for Mossley as a player in August 1928 and was immediately appointed club captain.

He went on to make 141 appearances, scoring 6 goals from full back and wing half before departing for Stalybridge Celtic in the closed season of 1932. He was appointed manager of Celtic but returned to Mossley in the same capacity in 1939 in the ill fated war-time season.

Leaver was a former professional Former Blackpool (106 - 4) and Watford (35 - 3) player who had begun his career with his home town club Blackburn Rovers.

James Leaver died in 1959.