Jimmy Calderwood

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Jimmy Calderwood (born 28 February 1950 in Glasgow) is a former football player and is currently a football manager.

He started his professional career with Birmingham City in 1971, making his debut against Stoke City in 1972. He made 159 appearances for the Blues until switching to Cambridge United in 1979. He spent a short time in Cambridge before accepting the offer to move to the Netherlands, where he spent almost 10 years playing for Sparta Rotterdam, Willem II Tilburg, Roda JC and Heracles Almelo before retiring in 1989.

After a few assistant coaching positions, Calderwood moved into management in his own right by taking over Dutch club NEC Nijmegen in 1997. After a two year spell there, Scottish Premier League side Dunfermline Athletic moved to make him their new manager. Calderwood spent five seasons at East End Park where he led the club to their highest ever SPL position, finishing 4th in 2003-04, guaranteeing their return to European competition for the first time in 35 years.

In the summer of 2004 Willie Miller, returning to Pittodrie as Director of Football, brought Calderwood to Aberdeen to replace Steve Paterson as manager.

Preceded by: Dick Campbell	Dunfermline Athletic FC manager 1999-2004	Succeeded by: David Hay
Preceded by: Steve Paterson	Aberdeen FC manager 2004-	Succeeded by: Incumbent

Aberdeen F.C. - Current Squad
1 Langfield | 2 Hart | 4 Anderson | 5 Diamond | 6 Severin | 7 J. Smith | 8 Nicholson | 9 Lovell | 10 Mackie | 11 Clark | 14 Dempsey | 15 Touzani | 16 Miller | 17 D. Smith | 18 Winter | 19 Foster | 20 Soutar | 21 Considine | 22 Macaulay | 24 Donald | 25 Maguire | 26 Daal | Manager: Calderwood