Jimmy Calderwood

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Jimmy Calderwood
Personal information
Full name James Calderwood
Date of birth 28 February 1955 (1955-02-28) (age 53)
Place of birth    Glasgow, Scotland
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current club Aberdeen (Manager)
Youth clubs
1971–1972 Birmingham City
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1972–1980
1979
1979-1980
1980–1982
1982–1987
1987–1989		 Birmingham City
→ Cambridge United (loan)
Sparta Rotterdam
Willem II Tilburg
Roda JC
Heracles Almelo		 145 (4)
008 (0)
10 (0)
44 (1)
124 (1)   
Teams managed
1996–1997
1997–1999
1999–2004
2004–present		 Willem II Tilburg
NEC Nijmegen
Dunfermline Athletic
Aberdeen

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

Jimmy Calderwood (born 28 February 1955) is a former professional association footballer and current manager of Scottish club Aberdeen F.C.. His son is Scott Calderwood.

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[edit] Playing career

Born in Govan, Glasgow, Calderwood started his professional career with Birmingham City as an apprentice in 1971, making his first team debut against Stoke City in 1972. He made 159 appearances for the club before spending a short time on loan at Cambridge United in 1979. His contract with Birmingham was cancelled at the end of the 1979–80 season,[1] and he accepted an 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.

[edit] Managerial career

After a few assistant coaching positions, Calderwood moved into management in his own right by taking over Dutch club Willem II Tilburg in 1996, before moving to NEC Nijmegen in 1997. After a two year spell there, Scottish First Division side Dunfermline Athletic moved to make him their new manager. Calderwood spent five seasons at East End Park where he led the club to promotion to the SPL by finishing as runners-up in his 1st season in charge. He also lead them to their highest ever SPL position, finishing fourth in 2003–04. That season the side also reached the Scottish Cup final, guaranteeing their return to European competition for the first time in 35 years as opponents Celtic had already earned Champions League qualification.

In the summer of 2004 Willie Miller, returning to Pittodrie as Director of Football, brought Calderwood to Aberdeen to replace Steve Paterson as manager.[2]

Since his arrival in the Granite City, Calderwood has overseen an improvement in Aberdeen's fortunes on the playing field. They narrowly missed out on qualifying for European competition in 2004–05 and 2005–06 but finished the 2006–07 league campaign in third place, ensuring UEFA Cup qualification in 2007–08.

On 31 August 2007 he was linked with the vacant manager's position at Leicester City. Calderwood later dismissed this, insisting he and his assistant Jimmy Nicholl 'love' being with Aberdeen.[3]

In December 2007, Calderwood led Aberdeen to the last 32 of European competition for the first time since 1986 with a surprising 4–0 demolition of FC Copenhagen at Pittodrie. With this great achievement, the Dons were rewarded by drawing 'German Giants' Bayern Munich. Calderwood led his team this time once again to a shock result, drawing 2-2 with Bayern at Pittodrie on 14th February 2008, a remarkable achievement and hailed by many pundits and ex-players as Aberdeen's greatest night since Gothenburg in 1983, with Jimmy himself describing the night as his biggest in football. Ironically, Bayern pulled off a convincing 5-1 win against Calderwood's team in Germany the following week, but the severe thrashing which sent the Dons out of the UEFA Cup was compensated by the amazing European nights produced by the players.

On Monday 14 January 2008 Jimmy Calderwood signed a 3½ year contract to end a month of speculation about his future. Along with Calderwood, Assistant Manager Jimmy Nicholl and Coach Sandy Clark both signed similar 3½ year contracts.


[edit] Mangerial honours

[edit] Dunfermline Athletic F.C. 1999-2004

[edit] Manager awards

[edit] Managerial stats

As of 17 June 2007.
Team Nat From To Record
G W L D Win %
Willem II Tilburg Flag of the Netherlands 1996 1997 ? ? ? ? ?
NEC Nijmegen Flag of the Netherlands 1997 1999 ? ? ? ? ?
Dunfermline Athletic Flag of Scotland 30 November 1999 28 May 2004 202 77 78 47 38.12
Aberdeen Flag of Scotland 28 May 2004 Present 127 56 39 32 44.09

[edit] References

  1. ^ Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books, p. 77. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9. 
  2. ^ "Calderwood agrees Dons move", BBC Sport website, 28 May 2004. 
  3. ^ Dons boss plays down link, Sky Sports 2007-09-04. Retrieved on 2007-09-05.

[edit] External links

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Dunfermline Athletic F.C. – Managers

Knight (1922–25) • Paterson (1925–30) • Knight (1930–36) • Taylor (1936–38) • Wilson (1938–39) • Archibald (1939–46) • McAndrew (1947) • Calder (1947–48) • Terris (1948–49) • Lees (1949–51) • Younger (1951–52) • Ancell (1952–55) • Dickson (1955–60) • Stein (1960–64) • Cunningham (1964–67) • Farm (1967–70) • Stevenson (1970) • Wright (1970–72) • Miller (1972–75) • Thomson (1975) • Melrose (1975–80) • Stanton (1980–82) • Thomson (1982) • Forsyth (1982–83) • Leishman (1982–90) • Munro (1991) • Scott (1991–93) • Paton (1993–99) • Campbell (1999) • Nicholl (1999) • Calderwood (1999–2004) • Hay (2004–05) • Leishman (2005–06) • Kenny (2006–07) • McIntyre (2008–)
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Aberdeen F.C. – current squad

1 Langfield • 5 Diamond • 6 Severin • 7 J. Smith • 10 Mackie • 11 Duff • 14 Foster • 15 Touzani • 16 Miller • 17 D. Smith • 18 Mair • 19 Young • 21 Considine • 22 Maguire • 24 de Visscher • 33 S. Smith •  Bossu •  Stewart •  McDonald • Manager: Calderwood
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