Todd will take over on an eighteen-month deal, officially taking charge of the Tigers after the Billericay Town game on Saturday.

Born in Swansea, Todd began his playing days as a trainee with his home-town club Swansea City, turning professional in August 1999.

He played 43 times for the Swans and, after a spell in Ireland with Drogheda United, turned out 154 times for Exeter City and then played 67 games for Torquay United and 46 for Newport County before having spells with Forest Green Rovers, Eastleigh as a player.

In 2015, he was appointed caretaker-mnager of Eastleigh and after three victories from four matches, he was confirmed as the new manager.

After Todd’s appointment Eastleigh went on a run which saw them climb to third in the league and an FA Cup run which saw them knocked out by Bolton Wanderers in the Third Round.

Their exit from the competition saw their form dip and narrowly miss out on a play-off place, finishing seventh.

He then became assistant at Truro City working with manager Lee Hodges where they achieved a play-off position last year.

Todd told http://www.gloucestercityafc.com: “I’m really excited about the challenge ahead, for me personally it’s a real honour with the club looking to come home, to think that I’ll be the man to do that. Even though it’s very much a family and volunteer run club, Gloucester City is an ambitious club and you can tell that after meeting the board and hearing their vision for it. It is a blow obviously to the club with the previous manager leaving but that’s football and as one door closes another inevitably opens. With the vision the board have and me coming in, hopefully that will signal the start of a new era for the Football Club. With my experiences, I believe I’ve got a lot to offer and I cannot wait to get started.”

City Chairman Rod Jenner added: “Despite only closing applications yesterday, our proactivity during Marc’s discussions with Hereford have proved more than fruitful. We’d already sounded out potential candidates and the initial response we had after announcing Marc’s departure gave us that little bit extra to consider.

“We interviewed most of our short list at the end of last week in a few busy days, however Chris really was the stand out candidate for us. Knowing that he’d recently been interviewed for other positions at this level, we knew he’d be snapped up soon so decided to act quickly.

“As I’ve said before, we’ve had a plethora of applications, but we’d already worked out that we wanted a manager with experience at our level and above, someone who is a modern football coach and who has the experience of nurturing young talent. We needed someone with the guile to understand that winning football is both the ability to play attractively but also occasionally win ugly. With Chris, myself and the board firmly believe we have that.

“Chris understands the vision we have for Gloucester City and it’s great that we can welcome him aboard to work with Tom Webb and Mike Green. I’m very excited about this appointment and think that we’ve been able to turn what could have been a loss into a brilliant opportunity for positive change.”

Further to this, Gloucester confirmed that Todd will be working with Tom Webb and Mike Green, who will now become assistant-manager and coach respectively both on permanent deals.