Jim Jefferies

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Jim Jefferies
Personal information
Full name James Jefferies
Date of birth November 22, 1950 (1950-11-22) (age 57)
Place of birth    Musselburgh, Scotland
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current club Kilmarnock (Manager)
Youth clubs
1965–1967 Gorgie Hearts
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1967–1981
1967–1968
1968–1969
1981–1983		 Hearts
→ Haddington Athletic (loan)
→ Gala Fairydean (loan)
Berwick Rangers		 227 (5)


060 (0)   
Teams managed
1983–1988
1988–1990
1990–1995
1995–2000
2000–2001
2002–		 Gala Fairydean
Berwick Rangers
Falkirk
Hearts
Bradford City
Kilmarnock

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

Jim Jefferies (born November 22, 1950 in Musselburgh, East Lothian) is the Scottish football manager of Kilmarnock F.C..

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[edit] Career

Also a former player, whose defensive versatility often counted against him in the attacking Hearts team in the 1970s, Jefferies has enjoyed considerably greater success as a manager than during his playing career.

He began his senior managerial career with Berwick Rangers in September 1988, despite a great deal of financial turmoil during that time he turned the struggling team around including a club record breaking 21 game unbeaten league run in season 1988-89. In the 1990 close season he took over at Falkirk guiding them to the Scottish Division One title (and promotion to the Scottish Premier Division) in 1994.

In August 1995, Jefferies moved to Hearts. He was manager of the Hearts team which won the Scottish Cup in 1998, undoubtedly his greatest success in the game.

Jefferies moved south of the border in November 2000 to replace Chris Hutchings as manager of Premiership strugglers Bradford City. He was given the task of selling players by chairman Geoffrey Richmond and was unable to prevent them from going down. He resigned in December 2001 after a poor start to the season left them with no hope of a promotion challenge.

In February 2002, he returned to management back in his native Scotland with Kilmarnock. He has kept Kilmarnock in a respectable position despite the necessity of drastically reducing the club's wage bill, reaching the final of the CIS Insurance Cup in 2007. Following Alex McLeish's departure from Rangers at the end of the 2005-06 season, Jefferies is currently the longest-serving manager in the Scottish Premier League.

[edit] Honours

[edit] Player

Heart of Midlothian

[edit] Managerial

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Heart of Midlothian
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Berwick Rangers F.C. – Managers

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Falkirk F.C. – Managers

Craig (1935–50) • Duffy (1988–89) • Lamont (1989–90) • Jefferies (1990–95) • Lambie (1995–96) • Collins (1996) • Bannon (1996) • Totten (1996–2002) • McCall (2002–03) • Coyle & Hughes (2003) • Hughes (2003–)
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Heart of Midlothian F.C. – Managers

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Bradford City A.F.C. – Managers

Campbell (1903–05) • O'Rourke (1905–21) • Menzies (1921–26) • Veitch (1926–28) • Foster (1928) • O'Rourke (1928–30) • Peart (1930–35) • Ray (1935–37) • Westgarth (1938–43) • Sharp (1943–46) • Barker (1946–47) • Milburn (1947–48) • Steele (1948–52) • A Harris (52) • Powell (1952–55) • Jackson (1955–61) • Brocklebank (1961–64) • B Harris (1965–66) • Watson (1966–67) • Hair (1967–68) • McAnearney & Hallett (1968) • Wheeler (1968–71) • Wilson (1971) • Edwards (1971–75) • Kennedy (1975–78) • Napier (1978) • Mulhall (1978–81) • McFarland (1981–82) • Cherry (1982–87) • Dolan (1987–89) • Yorath (1989–90) • Docherty (1990–91) • Stapleton (1991–94) • Lawrence (1994–95) • Kamara (1995–98) • Jewell (1998–2000) • Hutchings (2000) • McCall (2000) • Jefferies (2000–01) • Smith (2001) • Law (2002–03) • Four senior players (2003) • Robson (2003–04) • Todd (2004–07) • Wetherall (2007) • McCall (2007–)
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Kilmarnock F.C. – Managers

Spence (1919–37) • McGrory (1937–45) • Smith (1945–47) • Mather (1947–48) • Hastings (1948–50) • McDonald (1950–57) • Waddell (1957–69) • McCrae (1969–73) • Fernie (1973–77) • Sneddon (1977–81) • Clunie (1981–85) • Morrison (1985–89) • Fleeting (1989–90) • Burns (1990–94) • Totten (1994–96) • Williamson (1996–02) • Jefferies (2002–)
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Kilmarnock F.C. – current squad

1 Combe • 2 Fowler • 3 Hay • 4 Lilley • 5 Wright • 6 Ford • 8 Locke • 10 Wales • 11 Invincibile • 12 Johnston • 13 Harpur • 14 Morgan • 15 Murray • 16 Dodds • 17 Gibson • 18 Di Giacomo • 20 Fernández • 21 O'Leary • 23 Hamill • 24 Bryson • 25 Adams • 27 Clancy • 28 Campbell • 29 Flannigan • 30 Corrigan • 34 Taouil • 36 Rascle •  Osman •  Russell •  Skelton • Manager: Jefferies
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