Gary Bollan

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Personal information
Gary Bollan
Full name	Gary Bollan
Date of birth	March 24, 1973 (1973-03-24) (age 35)
Place of birth	Dundee, Scotland
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position	Defender (Retired)
Club information
Current club	Clyde (Coach)
Youth clubs
1988–1989	Fairmuir Boys Club
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1989–1995 1995–1998 1997 1998–2001 2001–2003 2003–2004 2004 2004–2005 2005–06 2006–2007	Dundee United Rangers → Wolves (loan) St. Johnstone Livingston Dundee United Motherwell Clyde Brechin City Carnoustie	46 (4) 11 (0) 96 (7) 43 (1) 15 (0) 03 (0) 25 (2) 18 (0)
National team
	Scotland under-21
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Gary Bollan (born March 24, 1973 in Dundee) is a vastly experienced retired Scottish footballer, having played for seven senior Scottish clubs in his career, and is a former Under-21 internationalist. He is currently the Head of Clyde's Youth Development program.

1 Career
2 Honours
- 2.1 Scotland
- 2.2 Dundee United
3 External links

[edit] Career

Bollan came up through the youth system and into the first team at Dundee United as a teenager in the early 1990s. He sparked interest from Rangers, who signed him in January 1995. Bollan spent three years at Ibrox but made only a handful of appearances due to injury. He was transferred to St. Johnstone in 1998 and spent three years there before moving to Livingston when they won promotion to the SPL.

He returned to Dundee United in February 2003 for a year, before having a brief spell with Motherwell in 2004.

He spent the 2004-05 season as a player-coach for Clyde. He made his debut on the opening day of the season, in Clyde's derby win over rivals Partick Thistle. He is best known for his time at Broadwood Stadium, when he scored a free-kick from 40 yards to knock Falkirk out of the Scottish Cup. He was voted Clyde Man of the Match in their encounter with Celtic in the latter stages of the competition. He was briefly caretaker manager at the end of the season.

Bollan signed for Brechin in July 2005; however, he was made available for transfer by manager Michael O'Neill [1]. In November 2006 Gary Bollan signed for Carnoustie Panmure.

In July 2007, Bollan was appointed as Head of Youth Development at Clyde, though he has appeared in the dugout in a coaching role since January 2008, and was in joint-caretaker charge of the team alongside Dougie Bell after Colin Hendry resigned.

Bollan is the only player to have appeared for four Scottish clubs in European competition.^{[citation needed]}