Overview
- Gateshead confirmed Cattermole as first-team manager on Tuesday after he signed a two-year contract and immediately began his duties.
- Chairman Graham Wood called Cattermole the 'standout candidate' and said the club did not need to look further after meetings with the player and his agent.
- Cattermole arrives after Rob Elliot's departure and takes his first senior managerial job following coaching roles at Middlesbrough, Burnley, Bristol Rovers and with the Northern Irish FA.
- He has said he will take a measured, learning-first approach, studying the inherited squad and the club's identity before making recruitment or tactical changes.
- The appointment continues Gateshead's recent pattern of offering ex–top-flight players their first managerial chance following the club's 2019 supporter-led rescue and prior successful first-time hires.