Career
He played professionally for Swindon Town and Torquay United as a midfielder. He is currently manager of Cirencester Town. Hughes began his career as an apprentice at Swindon Town, making his league debut on 30 August 1980 away to Reading.
Hughes made 42 starts for Torquay over the course of the 1983-1984 season and he then joined Cheltenham Town in July 1984, helping the Gloucestershire club to promotion as Southern League champions in to the Football Conference.
In August 1988, Hughes moved to Gloucestershire rivals Gloucester City for a fee of £4000 making his debut on 20 August 1988 against Ashtree Highfield. Following the sacking of manager Brian Godfrey, he left Gloucester for the first time and joined Barry Town.
Hughes returned on Godfrey"s reappointment to Gloucester and then stepped up to work under future boss John Murphy in a player coaching role before leaving Gloucester for the second time to link up with Witney Town. Hughes returned to Gloucester City to assist manager Leroy Rosenior and was eventually pushed up to his first full managerial position following Rosenior"s departure in November 1998.
He was sacked by Gloucester in February 2000 however and returned to Witney to take charge of the Oxfordshire club in the Hellenic League.
In 2002 Hughes was appointed manager at Cirencester Town for the first time - becoming manager at a club who had just moved to their new Corinium Stadium home. At the end of the 2003-2004 season, he helped Cirencester gain promotion to the Southern Premier Division At the end of the 2005-2006 season, Hughes resigned as manager at the club He returned however to become boss at Cirencester once again in September 2008, taking over from Adrian Viveash.
Hughes again earned Cirencester promotion when at the end of the 2009-2010 season they were promoted in to the Southern Premier Division once again as Southern League South & West Division play off winners.
At the end of the 2011-2012 season, Cirencester were however relegated back in to the South & West Division with Hughes at the helm. A two season stay in the South & West Division ended in April 2014 when Hughes once again guided Cirencester to promotion into the Southern Premier Division as champions ahead of second place Merthyr Town.