Sam Allardyce's managerial career in numbers

Sam Allardyce has been officially confirmed as the new England manager.

The 61-year-old has left Sunderland to succeed Roy Hodgson in the top job in English football.

We take at look at some of the numbers behind the career of the man now in charge of the Three Lions.

After starting his coaching career as a player/manager in Republic of Ireland with Limerick, Allardyce had a brief spell as caretaker at Preston North End in 1992.

However, his first permanent managerial role came in 1994 with Blackpool.

He then went onto manage Notts County, Bolton Wanderers, Newcastle United, Blackburn Rovers, West Ham and eventually Sunderland before getting the England job.

Since being promoted to the top flight for the first time with Bolton in 2001, Allardyce has taken charge of 467 Premier League games.

Harry Redknapp is the only Englishman to have managed more games in the Premier League than Big Sam.

Notts County were the first club to earn promotion with Allardyce at the helm. Big Sam guided them to the old Third Division title in 1998.

He then took Bolton to the Premier League in 2001, and later got West Ham back to the top flight via the play-offs in 2012.

The highest league position any team has finished under Sam Allardyce was Bolton, who finished sixth in 2005.

Allardyce was appointed Newcastle boss in May 2007 and took charge of the Magpies for 24 games until he was sacked in January 2008. His stint at St James' Park is the shortest of his managerial career to date.

Sunderland's future in the Premier League looked bleak when the club were seven points adrift of safety in January 2015. However, Allardyce's side lost just one of their final 11 games of the season and the Black Cats climbed out of the bottom three with a match to spare.