Alan Irvine (soccer player, 1958)

Alan Irvine
Alan Irvine (2008)
Personnel
Surname	James Alan Irvine
birthday	July 12, 1958
place of birth	Glasgow ,  Scotland
position	wing
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1977-1981	FC Queen's Park	88 0(9)
1981-1984	Everton FC	60 0(4)
1984-1987	Crystal Palace	109 (12)
1987-1989	Dundee United	24 0(3)
1989-1992	Blackburn Rovers	58 0(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2007	Everton FC (assistant coach)
2007-2009	Preston North End
2010-2011	Sheffield Wednesday
2011-2014	Everton FC (youth coach)
2014	West Bromwich Albion
2015-2016	Blackburn Rovers (Assistant Coach)
2016-2017	Norwich City (Assistant Coach)
2017	Norwich City (interim coach)
2017-2018	West Ham United (Assistant Coach)
1 Only league games are given.

James Alan Irvine (born July 12, 1958 in Glasgow ) is a former Scottish football player and current coach .

Career

As a player

Alan Irvine began his career at Queen's Park FC in his hometown of Glasgow . In 1981 he moved to Everton in the Premier League and played there for three years before going to league rivals Crystal Palace . In 1987 he moved back to Scotland for Dundee United . His last stop was the Blackburn Rovers from 1989 to 1992.

As a trainer

In July 2007 Irvine was assistant coach at Everton FC , for whom he had played from 1981 to 1984 himself. In November of the same year, however, he left the club and became the head coach of Preston North End . After two years, he took over Sheffield Wednesday in January 2010 . After his release in February 2011, he returned to Everton and became a youth coach.

From July to December 2014 he was the coach of the Premier League club West Bromwich Albion . From March to June 2017, he headed ten games for Norwich City in the Football League Championship as interim coach .

Web links

• Alan Irvine in the database of weltfussball.de
• Alan Irvine in the ran.de database
• Alan Irvine in the soccerbase.com database