Willie Donachie

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Personal information
Willie Donachie
Full name	William Donachie
Date of birth	October 5, 1951 (age 55)
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Position	Left-back
Club information
Current club	Millwall
Number	Manager
Youth clubs
-1968	Manchester City
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1968-1979 1979-1981 1981-1982 1982 1982-1984 1984-1990	Manchester City Portland Timbers Norwich City Portland Timbers Burnley Oldham Athletic	351 (2) 11 (0) 60 (3) 169 (3)
National team**
1972-1980	Scotland	35 (0)
Teams managed
2006-	Millwall
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of November 22, 2006. ** National team caps and goals correct as of November 22, 2006.

William Donachie (born 5 October 1951) is a Scottish former professional footballer and current manager of Football League One side Millwall. He won 35 full caps for Scotland, playing in the 1978 World Cup.

Donachie was born in Glasgow, but began his football career in England as a junior with Manchester City, turning professionl in December 1968. He made his first team debut in February 1970 and replaced Glyn Pardoe at left-back in City's side and quickly established himself as a regular in the side. In April 1972 he made his full debut for Scotland against Peru at Hampden Park, having previously made two appearances for Scotland's Under-23 side.

He played in two League Cup finals for City and went on to make 347 appearances before leaving in 1979 to play for NASL side Portland Timbers.

He returned to England in September 1981, joining Norwich City for a fee of £200,000, but rejoined Portland in March 1982. In November the same year he joined Burnley and in July 1984 joined Oldham Athletic where he became player-assistant manager to Joe Royle. Under Royle and Donachie Oldham enjoyed considerable success at Boundary Park, taking the unfashionable minnows to the Premier League, League Cup Final and epic FA Cup semi Finals against Manchester United in the 1990's.

When Royle left to manage Everton in 1995, Donachie followed as his assistant before being appointed First Team Coach at Sheffield United. Towards the end of the 1997-98 season he rejoined Royle at Manchester City.

In May 2001 Royle was sacked, but Donachie opted to stay at Manchester City as First Team Coach under new manager Kevin Keegan. However, in November 2001 he left to become assistant to Terry Yorath at Sheffield Wednesday ^[1]. He resigned from his post at Hillsborough on October 28, 2002 to link up again with Joe Royle, who by now was manager of Ipswich Town. Ipswich paid Wednesday £50,000 compensation for this move ^[2].

Donachie left Portman Road in June 2006 after Jim Magilton was appointed as manager, this coming after Donachie had stated his interest in the job himself ^[3], and joined Millwall as assistant to Nigel Spackman. He was appointed manager of Millwall on November 22, 2006 after being caretaker manager following Spackman's sacking on 25 September 2006 ^[4].

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Preceded by: Nigel Spackman	Millwall Manager 2006-present	Succeeded by: Incumbent

	Scotland squad - 1974 FIFA World Cup
1 Harvey \| 2 Jardine \| 3 McGrain \| 4 Bremner \| 5 Holton \| 6 Blackley \| 7 Johnstone \| 8 Dalglish \| 9 Jordan \| 10 Hay \| 11 Lorimer \| 12 Allan \| 13 Stewart \| 14 Buchan \| 15 Cormack \| 16 Donachie \| 17 Ford \| 18 Huchison \| 19 Law \| 20 Morgan \| 21 McQueen \| 22 Schaedler \| Coach: Ormond

	Scotland squad - 1978 FIFA World Cup
1 Rough \| 2 Jardine \| 3 Donachie \| 4 Buchan \| 5 McQueen \| 6 Rioch \| 7 Masson \| 8 Dalglish \| 9 Jordan \| 10 Hartford \| 11 Johnston \| 12 Blyth \| 13 Kennedy \| 14 Forsyth \| 15 Gemmill \| 16 Macari \| 17 Johnstone \| 18 Souness \| 19 Robertson \| 20 Clark \| 21 Harper \| 22 Burns \| Coach: MacLeod