Alex Smith (footballer born 1939)

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Alex Smith
Personal information
Full name Alexander Smith
Date of birth December 25, 1939 (1939-12-25) (age 68)
Place of birth    Cowie, Scotland
Youth clubs
Gowanhill United
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1958–


0000–1967		 Kilmarnock
Stenhousemuir
Stirling Albion
Albion Rovers		    
Teams managed
1968–1974
1974–1986

1986–1988
1988–1992
1992–1994
0000–2002
2000–2002
2002–2005		 Stenhousemuir
Stirling Albion
Scotland under-18
St Mirren
Aberdeen
Clyde
Scotland under-21
Dundee United
Ross County

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Alexander "Alex" Smith MBE (born 25th December 1939) was a Scottish football player and manager.

Smith was born in Cowie, a mining village close to Stirling, and played in the same youth team as Billy Bremner. He was best man at Bremner's wedding. His playing career was journeymanlike, and he played for Kilmarnock, Stenhousemuir, Stirling Albion and Albion Rovers.

During his management career, which began in 1969, he has been the manager of Stenhousemuir, Stirling Albion, St Mirren, Aberdeen, Clyde, Dundee United and Ross County.

His major achievements as manager include the Scottish Cup in 1987 (with St Mirren) and 1990 (with Aberdeen), and the Scottish League Cup (again with Aberdeen) in 1989.

In the 2005 book on Scottish football, The Final Whistle? he was described as "the nearest thing the Scottish game has to a father figure".

Smith has been involved with Scotland at a number of levels, managing the Scotland under-18 and under-21 sides. He also took charge of the Scotland B squad in January 2007, alongside Bobby Williamson.[1]

He is also co-proprietor of locally-reknowned pub 'Smiths' located just outside Stirling.


Contents

[edit] Managerial statistics

Team From To Record
G W L D Win %
Stenhousemuir August 01, 1968 September 01, 1974
Stirling September 01, 1974 December 16, 1986
St Mirren December 17, 1986 May 31, 1988
Aberdeen August 01, 1988 February 10, 1992
Clyde August 01, 1992 June 01, 1994
Scotland under-21 March 14, 2002
Dundee United August 08, 2000 October 07, 2002 99 31 45 23 31.31
Ross County November 27, 2002 June 11, 2005 112 39 45 28 34.82

Source: Soccerbase

[edit] Managerial honours

[edit] St Mirren

1986-87

[edit] Aberdeen

1989-90
1989-90

[edit] Dundee United

March 2001, May 2001, January 2002

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Gow & McGregor given Scots chance", BBC Sport website, 2007-01-30. 
Preceded by
N/A		 Stenhousemuir manager
1968-1974		 Succeeded by
Unknown
Preceded by
Unknown		 Stirling Albion manager
1974-86		 Succeeded by
George Peebles
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St. Mirren F.C. – Managers

Humphries (1970–72) • Cunningham (1972–75) • Ferguson (1975–78) • Clunie (1978–81) • McFarlane (1981–83) • Miller (1983–86) • Smith (1986–88) • Fitzpatrick (1988–90) • Bone (1994–96) • Fitzpatrick (1996) • Munro (1996) • Fitzpatrick (1996–98) • Hendrie (1998–2002) • Coughlin (2002–03) • MacPherson (2003–)
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Aberdeen F.C. – Managers

Philip (1903–23) • Travers (1923–38) • Halliday (1938–55) • Shaw (1955–59) • Pearson (1959–65) • Turnbull (1965–71) • Bonthrone (1971–75) • MacLeod (1975–77) • McNeill (1977–78) • Ferguson (1978–86) • Porterfield (1986–88) • Smith (1988–92) • Scott (1988–92) • W. Miller (1992–95) • Aitken (1995–97) • A. Miller (1997–98) • Burkinshaw (1998–99) • Hegarty (1999) • Skovdahl (1999–2002) • Speirs (2002) • Paterson (2002–04) • Calderwood (2004–)
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Clyde F.C. – Managers

Moreland (1930's) • Thomson (193?–37) • Travers (1938–56) • Haddow (1956–63) • Prentice (1963–66) • White (1966–67) • Wright (1967) • Robertson (1968–73) • Anderson (1973–76) • Clinton (1976–77) • McNeill (1977) • Brown (1977–87) • Clark (1987–92) • Smith (1992–96) • Speirs (1996–98) • McDonald (1998) • Maitland (1998–02) • Kernaghan (2002–04) • Reid (2004–05) • Roberts (2005–06) • Miller (2006–07) • Hendry (2007-08) • Brown (2008-Present) •
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Dundee United F.C. – Managers

Reilly (1909–15) • Dainty (1915–17) • Reilly (1917–22) • O'Rourke (1922–23) • Brownlie (1923–31) • Reid (1931–34) • Brownlie (1934–36) • Greig (1936–38) • Brownlie/Irving (1938–39) • McKay (1939) • Allan (1939–40) • Cram (1941–44) • Littlejohn (1944) • McGillivray (1944–45) • MacFadyen (1945–54) • R Smith (1954–57) • Gallacher (1957) • Gray (1957–58) • A McCall (1958–59) • Kerr (1959–71) • J McLean (1971–93) • Golac (1993–95) • Kirkwood (1995–96) • T McLean (1996–98) • Sturrock (1998–2000) • A Smith (2000–02) • Hegarty (2002–03) • I McCall (2003–05) • Chisholm (2005–06) • Brewster (2006) • Levein (2006–)
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Ross County F.C. – Managers

Wilson (1987–96) • Cooper (1996–02) • Smith (2002–05) • Robertson (2005) • Speirs (2005–06) • Leitch (2006–07) • Campbell (2007) • Adams (2007–-) •
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