Craig Brown (footballer)

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Craig Brown
Personal information
Full name	Craig Brown CBE
Date of birth	1 July 1940 (1940-07-01) (age 67)
Place of birth	Hamilton, Scotland
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1958–1962 1962–1968 1968–1971	Rangers Dundee Falkirk
Teams managed
1977–1986 1993–2001 2002–2004	Clyde Scotland under-16 Scotland under-19 Scotland Preston
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Craig Brown CBE (born July 1, 1940 in Hamilton) is a former Scottish professional football player and manager.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Managerial career 3 Honours 3.1 Player 3.2 Manager 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Playing career

He played for Scottish schools, youth and junior international teams, before joining Rangers in 1958 from Coltness United, aged just 19. He failed to find a regular first team place, and moved to Dundee in October 1960, where he won a League Championship medal. Brown stayed at Dundee for four and a half years, but was never a first team regular and only made 16 appearances for the Dark Blues. He signed for Falkirk in 1968 and went on to make 17 appearances at Brockville. He called time on his playing career in 1971 after five operations on his knee.

[edit] Managerial career

Brown quickly showed a keen interest in being involved in the coaching side of football and he became assistant manager of Motherwell in 1974. He got his first managerial job as part-time manager of Clyde in 1977, where he spent ten seasons - winning the Second Division championship in 1982 - whilst also working as a primary school head teacher then a lecturer in primary education. He returned to football full-time in 1986 when Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh appointed him as assistant manager. Brown was also in charge of Scotland's youth teams. In 1989, he coached Scotland's Under-16s to the final of the UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship and three years later coached the under-21s to the semi-finals of the 1992 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship.

Brown was appointed as manager of Scotland in December 1993, having been caretaker manager, with responsibility for games against Italy and Malta, since Roxburgh's resignation in November.

Following the failure of Roxburgh's side to go to the World Cup 94, however, Brown soon made up for this by taking Scotland to Euro 96. He also took Scotland to France 98, but resigned in 2001 having failed to take Scotland to Euro 2000 and World Cup 2002. He was replaced by German Berti Vogts. Under Brown, Scotland beat England in the last ever Euro Championship qualifier at the old Wembley in 1999 by one goal to nil, although they lost the tie on aggregate.

He then had a spell in club management when he was appointed as manager of Preston North End in 2002 but left by mutual consent on August 29, 2004 after a poor start to the league campaign. He later had a brief spell as football consultant at Derby County under former protégé Billy Davies.

Brown was made CBE in October 1999.^[1]

[edit] Honours

[edit] Player

• Scottish Football League: 1
  

1961-62

[edit] Manager

• UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship Runner-up: 1
  

1989

• UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship Semi-finals: 1
  

1992

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Craig Brown management career stats at Soccerbase

v • d • e Scotland squad - UEFA Euro 1996 1 Leighton • 2 McKimmie • 3 Boyd • 4 Calderwood • 5 Hendry • 6 Whyte • 7 Spencer • 8 McCall • 9 McCoist • 10 McAllister • 11 Collins • 12 Goram • 13 T. McKinlay • 14 Durie • 15 Jess • 16 Burley • 17 B. McKinlay • 18 Gallacher • 19 Jackson • 20 Booth • 21 Gemmill • 22 Walker • Coach: Brown

v • d • e Scotland squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup 1 Leighton • 2 McNamara • 3 Boyd • 4 Calderwood • 5 Hendry • 6 T. McKinlay • 7 Gallacher • 8 Burley • 9 Durie • 10 Jackson • 11 Collins • 12 Sullivan • 13 Donnelly • 14 Lambert • 15 Gemmill • 16 Weir • 17 B. McKinlay • 18 Elliott • 19 Whyte • 20 Booth • 21 Gould • 22 Dailly • Coach: Brown

v • d • e 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) •

v • d • e Scotland national football team – Managers Selection committee (1872–1954) • Beattie (1954) • Selection committee (1954–58) • Walker (1958) • Busby (1958) • Beattie (1959–60) • McColl (1960–65) • Stein (1965–66) • Prentice (1966) • McDonald (1966–67) • B. Brown (1967–71) • Docherty (1971–72) • Ormond (1973–77) • MacLeod (1977–78) • Stein (1978–85) • Ferguson (1985–86) • Roxburgh (1986–93) • C. Brown (1993–2002) • Vogts (2002–04) • Smith (2004–07) • McLeish (2007) • Burley (2008-–)

v • d • e Preston North End F.C. – Managers Parker (1906–15) • Hayes (1919–23) • Lawrence (1923–25) • Richards (1925–27) • Gibson (1927–31) • Hayes (1931–32) • Muirhead (1936–37) • Scott (1949–53) • Symon (1953–54) • Hill (1954–56) • Britton (1956–61) • Milne (1961–68) • Seith (1968–70) • Ball (1970–73) • Charlton (1973–75) • Catterick (1975–77) • Stiles (1977–81) • Docherty (1981) • Kelly (1981) • Lee (1981–83) • Kelly (1983–85) • Booth (1985–86) • Kidd (1986) • McGrath (1986–90) • Chapman (1990–92) • Beck (1992–94) • Peters (1994–98) • Moyes (1998–2002) • O'Hanlon (2002) • Brown (2002–04) • Davies (2004–06) • Simpson (2006–07) • Irvine (2007–)