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Bryan Hamilton
Personal information
Full name Bryan Hamilton
Date of birth 31 December 1946 (1946-12-31) (age 63)
Place of birth Belfast, Northern Ireland
Playing position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
Distillery
Linfield
1971-1976 Ipswich Town 153 (43)
1976-1977 Everton 041 0(5)
1977-1978 Millwall 049 0(6)
1978-1980 Swindon Town 024 0(1)
1980-1985 Tranmere Rovers 109 0(6)
Total 376 (61)
National team
1969-1980 Northern Ireland 050 04
Teams managed
1980-1985 Tranmere Rovers
1985-1986 Wigan Athletic
1986-1987 Leicester City
1989-1993 Wigan Athletic
1994-1998 Northern Ireland
2000 Norwich City
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Bryan Hamilton (born 31 December 1946) is a Northern Irish former professional football player and manager. He gained 50 caps for Northern Ireland between 1969 and 1980, and later managed the national team for four years.

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Biography

Playing career

Born in Belfast, Hamilton began his career at Distillery, before moving on to Linfield. He was named Ulster Footballer of the Year and Northern Ireland Football Writers' Association Player of the Year for the 1970/71 season.[1] In 1971 he signed for Ipswich Town,[2] where he spent five years and made over 150 appearances for the club. In 1976 he signed for Everton, before moving onto short spells at Millwall and Swindon Town.

Managerial career

Hamilton became player/manager of Tranmere Rovers in 1980. The club remained in the Fourth Division throughout this period, with three top half finishes during his five-year period in charge, culminating in a finish of 6th in 1984-85.

He was appointed manager of Wigan Athletic in 1985. The 1985-86 season saw Wigan emerge as contenders for promotion to the Second Division, a feat which looked likely for virtually the entire campaign. However, when Wigan had completed their fixtures Derby County had three games in hand, two of which would be won to pip the Latics by a single point. His achievements with Wigan did not go unnoticed, and he would move to Leicester City soon afterwards. However, he was unable to keep Leicester in the First Division and soon left the club, briefly returned to Wigan in 1987.

Hamilton was appointed manager of Northern Ireland in 1994, succeeding Billy Bingham. In the Euro 96 qualifiers, Northern Ireland were in contention for qualification and were only narrowly pipped into second place by the Republic of Ireland. The 1998 World Cup qualifiers provided a far worse return despite a promising early draw with Germany - who would later beat Northern Ireland for the first time in two decades - and Hamilton left the job at the end of the qualifiers.

In April 2000 he was appointed manager of Norwich City, but resigned on 4 December. He returned to Ipswich as coach in 2001, but left the club in 2002.[3] In November 2006, he was appointed Technical Director of the Antigua and Barbuda Football Association.

Hamilton is now a media pundit working mainly with Eurosport, BBC Radio 5 Live, Setanta Sports, Today FM, Sky Sports and Anglia Television.

References

  1. ^ M. Brodie (ed.), Northern Ireland Soccer Yearbook 2009-2010, p. 102. Belfast:Ulster Tatler Publications
  2. ^ Bryan Hamilton Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database
  3. ^ Bryan Hamilton Flown From The Nest

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Tranmere Rovers F.C. – Managers

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Wigan Athletic F.C. – Managers

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Leicester City F.C. – Managers

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Northern Ireland national football team – Managers

Doherty (1951–62) · Peacock (1962–67) · Bingham (1967–71) · Neill (1971–75) · Clements (1975–76) · Blanchflower (1976–79) · Bingham (1980–94) · Hamilton (1994–98) · McMenemy (1998–99) · McIlroy (2000–03) · Sanchez (2004–07) · Worthington (2007–)
Norwich City F.C. – Managers

Bowman (1905–07) · McEwen (1907–08) · Turner (1909–10) · Stansfield (1910–15) · Buckley (1919–20) · O'Hagan (1920–21) · Gosnell (1921–26) · Stansfield (1926) · Potter (1926–29) · Kerr (1929–33) · Parker (1933–37) · Young (1937–38) · Jewell (1939) · Young (1939–45) · Lochhead (1945–46) · Spiers (1946–47) · Lochhead (1947–50) · Low (1950–55) · Parker (1955–57) · Macaulay (1957–61) · Reid (1961–62) · Swindin (1962) · Ashman (1962–1966) · Morgan (1966–69) · Saunders (1969–73) · Bond (1973–80) · Brown (1980–87) · Stringer (1987–92) · Walker (1992–94) · Deehan (1994–95) · O'Neill (1995) · Megson (1995–96) · Walker (1996–98) · Rioch (1998–2000) · Hamilton (2000) · Worthington (2000–06) · Grant (2006–07) · Duffy (2007) · Roeder (2007–09) · Gunn (2009) · Butterworth (2009) · Lambert (2009–)

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