Derek McInnes

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Derek McInnes
Personal information
Full name	Derek John McInnes
Date of birth	July 5, 1971 (1971-07-05) (age 38)
Place of birth	Paisley, Scotland
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	St. Johnstone (Manager)
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1988–1995 1995–2000 1998 1999–2000 2000–2003 2003–2006 2006–2007 2007–2008	Greenock Morton Rangers → Stockport County (loan) Toulouse West Bromwich Albion Dundee United Millwall St. Johnstone	221 (19) 035 0(1) 013 0(0) 003 0(0) 088 0(6) 074 0(3) 013 0(1) 030 0(0)
National team
2002	Scotland	002 0(0)
Teams managed
2007–	St. Johnstone
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:23, 14 May 2009 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Derek John McInnes (born 5 July, 1971 in Paisley, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish football player and manager. He is currently the manager of St. Johnstone, having last played in December 2007. McInnes featured prominently for Greenock Morton, Rangers, West Bromwich Albion and Dundee United during his playing career. He won two caps for the Scotland national football team while with West Brom.

Contents 1 Playing career 1.1 Early career 1.2 Return to Scotland 1.3 International career 2 Mangerial career 3 Career statistics 3.1 Managerial stats 4 Honours 4.1 Player 4.2 Manager 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Playing career

[edit] Early career

He began his professional career in 1988 at Greenock Morton, where he played in 221 league games in seven seasons before moving to Rangers. He spent almost five years at Ibrox, amassing 53 appearances for the club. During his time in Glasgow, McInnes had a loan spell at English club Stockport County, where he made 13 league appearances. He was also briefly at French side Toulouse.

McInnes joined West Bromwich Albion in the summer of 2000, but a cruciate ligament injury ended his season in October. He returned the following season to captain Albion to a place in the Premier League. He also won Albion's Goal of the Season award at the end of the promotion campaign, for his 25-yard strike against Sheffield United in the Battle of Bramall Lane.^[1] McInnes played in the majority of Albion's Premier League games during 2002-03 but was unable to prevent them from being relegated. In all he made 100 appearances and scored six times for the West Midlands side.

[edit] Return to Scotland

McInnes joined Dundee United on 11 July 2003, and was immediately installed as team captain by manager Ian McCall. In his first full season at Tannadice, McInnes missed only three league and one cup game. He helped the club to a fifth-place finish in the Scottish Premier League and scored twice - his first coming in the Scottish Cup against Dunfermline and his second in a league match against Hearts. After an unsteady start to the 2004-05 season, McInnes began to take control again in the centre of midfield. He then picked up an injury with a third of the season remaining but managed to return to the first team for the Scottish Cup final at the end of the season.

In April 2006, United manager Craig Brewster announced that McInnes was free to leave the club at the end of the season, despite having a year of his contract left to run.^[2] On 24 June 2006, it was announced that McInnes had finally come to an agreement to be released from his contract and he subsequently joined Millwall. The then-Lions boss Nigel Spackman gave McInnes the captain's armband with the comment: "Every Millwall player on that pitch should be a Derek McInnes."^[3]

McInnes left Millwall on a free transfer during the January 2007 transfer window, returning to Scotland to sign for St. Johnstone late on New Year's Day.^[4] He made his debut for the Perth club on 6 January, against Ayr United in the Scottish Cup at McDiarmid Park.

[edit] International career

International recognition came late to McInnes as he made his Scotland debut on 21 August 2002, coming on for the last ten minutes against Denmark in a friendly. Three months later, against Portugal, he was sub again, coming on midway through the first half.

[edit] Mangerial career

McInnes was appointed manager of St. Johnstone on 27 November 2007, after Owen Coyle and his assistant, Sandy Stewart, departed for Burnley a few days earlier.^[5] Stewart had been in charge for one game, in a caretaker manager capacity, before opting to follow Coyle to Lancashire. On May 2nd 2009, McInnes secured promotion to the Scottish Premier League for St. Johnstone, ending their seven year spell in the First Division.^[6]

[edit] Career statistics

[edit] Managerial stats

Updated: October 13th, 2008

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
St. Johnstone		November 27, 2007	Present	35	16	11	8	45.71

[edit] Honours

[edit] Player

Greenock Morton

• Scottish Second Division champions: 1994-95

Rangers

• Scottish Cup winner: 1998-99

St Johnstone

• Scottish Challenge Cup winner: 2007-08

[edit] Manager

St Johnstone

• Scottish First Division winner: 2008-09

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Profile page at St. Johnstone's official website
• Derek McInnes career stats at Soccerbase

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