Alexander Francis Neil (born 9 June 1981) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is currently head coach of EFL Championship club Millwall. Neil began his professional career at Airdrieonians in 2000, playing half a season in the Scottish Football League First Division before moving to Barnsley. He played 142 games across all competitions in his four-year spell at Barnsley, and then signed for Mansfield Town on a free transfer. After a season at Mansfield, he returned to Scotland's First Division with Hamilton Academical, featuring in 246 matches across a decade and winning promotion to the Scottish Premier League in 2008. He became Hamilton's player-manager in 2013 and led them to promotion to the Scottish Premiership in 2014. In January 2015 he was appointed manager of Norwich City, as the second youngest manager in the Football League at the time. Neil guided Norwich to promotion to the Premier League, by winning the 2015 Football League Championship play-off final. Norwich suffered relegation the following season, and in March 2017, Neil was sacked. He was appointed Preston North End's manager on 4 July 2017 and led the team to seventh place in the 2017–18 Championship. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article TacticsPlayersComments (0)Country coachesQuery squads on the database: Filter Player Pos:---Goalkeeper------Defender--- Right-back Centre-back Sweeper Left-back Either side back---Midfielder--- Right-midfield Defensive MF Box-to-Box MF Attacking MF Left-midfield Either side MF---Forward--- Right-wing Striker Left-wing Either side wing --- Today Top Games --- Accrington Stanley - Barrow Al-Hilal - Al-Khaleej Club Anderlecht - Charleroi SC Birmingham City - Derby County Bradford City - Wigan Athletic Cardiff City - Exeter City Coventry City - Swansea City Egypt - South Africa Grimsby Town - Oldham Athletic Leicester City - Watford Luton Town - Wycombe Wanderers Manchester United - Newcastle United Middlesbrough - Blackburn Rovers Millwall - Ipswich Town Newcastle Jets - Macarthur FC Norwich City - Charlton Athletic Oxford United - Southampton Plymouth Argyle - Reading Portsmouth - Queens Park Rangers RC Genk - Club Brugge Sheffield Wednesday - Hull City Standard Liege - Sint-Truidense West Bromwich Albion - Bristol City Wrexham - Sheffield United Zambia - Comoros --- Tomorrow Top Games --- AA Gent - Westerlo Aberdeen FC - Dundee United FC Adelaide United - Western Sydney Wanderers Al-Nassr - Al-Okhdood Club Arsenal - Brighton & Hove Albion Brentford - Bournemouth Burnley - Everton Chelsea - Aston Villa Dundee FC - Falkirk FC Hibernian FC - Heart of Midlothian FC Lecce - Como Liverpool - Wolverhampton Wanderers Livingston FC - Celtic FC Nigeria - Tunisia Nottingham Forest - Manchester City Palermo - Padova Parma - Fiorentina Pisa - Juventus Rangers FC - Motherwell FC Ross County - St Johnstone FC Royal Antwerp FC - Zulte-Waregem St Mirren - Kilmarnock FC Udinese - Lazio Uganda - Tanzania West Ham United - Fulham --- Recent games --- Australia - A-LeagueEngland - FA Premier LeagueEngland - League CupGermany - Frauen-BundesligaGreece - Super League GreeceItaly - Serie CItaly - Supercoppa ItalianaPortugal - Primeira LigaRomania - Liga ISpain - La LigaTurkey - Turkish Super Lig------ - Africa Cup of Nations select match 23-Dec --- Melb City 1:1 Macarthur select match 22-Dec --- Fulham 1:0 Not.Forest select match 23-Dec --- Arsenal 1:1 C Palace select match 22-Dec --- Leverkusn 0:3 Bayern select match 22-Dec --- Pans kos 0:2 Levadiakos select match 22-Dec --- U.Brescia 2:0 Inter U23 select match 22-Dec --- Napoli 2:0 Bologna select match 22-Dec --- Alverca 0:3 Porto22-Dec --- Benfica 1:0 Famalicão23-Dec --- Guimaraes 1:4 Sporting select match 22-Dec --- Craiova 5:0 M Ciuc select match 22-Dec --- Athletic 1:2 Espanyol select match 22-Dec --- Basaksehi 5:1 Gaziantep22-Dec --- Gençler 4:3 Trabzon select match 22-Dec --- Mali 1:1 Zambia22-Dec --- S. Africa 2:1 Angola22-Dec --- Egypt 2:1 Zimbabwe23-Dec --- DR Congo 1:0 Benin23-Dec --- Senegal 3:0 Botswana23-Dec --- Nigeria 2:1 Tanzania23-Dec --- Tunisia 3:1 Uganda24-Dec --- Burkina F 2:1 Eq Guinea24-Dec --- Algeria 3:0 Sudan Stories Potential Bruno Fernandes exit Celebrate the World Cup 2026 EPL promoted clubs Club World Cup Qualification A-League 2025 ending Transfer talk Liverpool 2025 Season Liverpool Influence in the Champions League Sports-Themed Online Games