Alex McLeish - Football Coach

Alexander McLeish (born 21 January 1959) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player. He played as a defender for Aberdeen during their 1980s glory years, making nearly 500 League appearances for the club, and won 77 caps for Scotland. McLeish started his managerial career with spells at Motherwell and Hibernian, before guiding Rangers to two championships and five cup wins in five years. McLeish spent ten months as manager of the Scotland national team which narrowly failed to qualify for the finals of the 2008 UEFA European championship. He then resigned this post in November 2007 to become manager of Birmingham City, who were in the Premier League at the time. Though Birmingham were relegated at the end of the season, McLeish guided them back to the Premier League in 2009. Birmingham then won the 2011 Football League Cup Final, but were relegated again from the Premier League at the end of the 2010–11 season. Following this relegation he resigned his post at Birmingham to become manager at their city rivals, Aston Villa. This made him the first manager to move directly from Birmingham City to Aston Villa, and only the second manager after Ron Saunders to manage both clubs. Having only narrowly avoided relegation in the 2011–12 Premier League season, his contract was terminated by Villa at the end of his first season. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article

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Motherwell FC	94/98

Hibernian FC	98/01

Rangers FC	01/06
Champions 03/04	6
Champions 05/06	8

Scotland	07
Euro 08 Qual 08	8
Friendlies 07	1

Birmingham City	07/11
EPL 07/08	24
FA Cup 07/08	1
Championship 08/09	46
League Cup 08/09	2
FA Cup 08/09	1
League Cup 09/10	2
EPL 09/10	38
FA Cup 09/10	5
League Cup 10/11	7
EPL 10/11	38
FA Cup 10/11	4

Aston Villa	11/12
League Cup 11/12	2
EPL 11/12	38
EPL Reserves 11/12	3
FA Cup 11/12	2

Nottingham Forest	12/13
Championship 12/13	6
FA Cup 12/13	1

RC Genk	14/15
Belgian 1 14/15	25
JL Playoffs 14/15	6

Scotland	18/19
Friendlies 18	6
Nations Lge C 18/19	4
Euro Qual 20	2