Steve Paterson

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Steven William (Steve) Paterson (born on 8th April 1958 in Elgin) is a former Scottish footballer and football manager.

During his professional playing career, he was a central defender and joined Manchester United from Nairn County in July 1975 and made a total of 6 league appearances for the Red Devils over four seasons. He also had spells playing for clubs in Hong Kong and Japan, before his playing career was cut short by persistent injury problems.

His management career began in the Highland League with Elgin City, before he moved on to Huntly. In the summer of 1995 he joined Inverness Caledonian Thistle, who were at that time playing in the Scottish Football League Third Division. Paterson spent seven and a half years at Caley Thistle, their longest-serving manager to date. During this time he took the club from the Third Division to Division One and presided over the team's famous victories against Celtic and Hearts in the Scottish Cup.

In November 2002 Paterson was strongly linked with the vacant manager's job at Dundee United, but he stayed at Caley Thistle for another month until he was offered the manager's position at Aberdeen. This move was not without controversy, as Paterson and his assistant Duncan Shearer were each supposed to have agreed a five-year contract with Caley Thistle not long before their departure to the Dons.

Paterson and Shearer left Aberdeen after around eighteen months and Paterson's most recent managerial post was with Highland League side Forres Mechanics, which he left in the summer of 2006. In October 2006 he was annouced as the new manager of Peterhead.

Preceded by Sergei Baltacha	Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC manager 1995-2002	Succeeded by John Robertson
Preceded by Ebbe Skovdahl	Aberdeen FC manager 2002-2004	Succeeded by Jimmy Calderwood
Preceded by Iain Stewart	Peterhead FC manager 2006-	Succeeded by Incumbant