Mallinder retired from playing in 2001 after a 12-year career at Sale Sharks.
After nearly 400 games for Sale and two England caps, Mallinder joined the side's coaching ranks, taking Sale Sharks from 11th to second in the Premiership in a single season and led them to their first ever trophy, the 2005 Challenge Cup.
Aiming for a new challenge, he accepted a head coaching role at Northampton Saints in 2007 and continued his winning attitude.
In each of Jim’s first three seasons in charge, Saints secured a National League One and National Trophy double in 2007/08, before winning the European Challenge Cup in 2008/09 and the LV= Cup in 2009/10, when the team finished second in the Premiership table.
That success paved the way for a run all the way to the Heineken Cup final in 2011, where Saints came within a whisker of claiming the European crown. But Mallinder’s greatest success was still to come as Northampton lifted the Aviva Premiership trophy in 2014 having fallen just short in the final the previous year.
In June 2014, Mallinder signed a new five-year contract that would keep him at Northampton until 2019, but due to the club's string of results in the 2017 season, the Saints board agreed that a change in management was in the best interest of the club and Mallinder left the Saints with immediate effect in December 2017.
In June 2018, Mallinder joined England Rugby as a pathway performance coach.
(LS June 15, 2018)
Career
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Sale Sharks Coach |
2001 - 2004 |
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England Saxons Coach |
2006 - 2007 |
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Northampton Saints Number 30 |
2007 - 2017 |
