Alex Neil (soccer player)

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Alex Neil
Alex Neil.jpg
Neil as a player from Hamilton Academical (2009)
Personnel
Surname Alexander Francis Neil
birthday June 9, 1981
place of birth Bellshill ,  Scotland
size 171 cm
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1999-2000 Airdrieonians FC 16 (5)
2000-2004 Barnsley FC 121 (4)
2004-2005 Mansfield Town 41 (1)
2005-2015 Hamilton Academical 211 (4)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2013-2015 Hamilton Academical
2015-2017 Norwich City
2017– Preston North End
1 Only league games are given.

Alexander Francis "Alex" Neil (born June 9, 1981 in Bellshill ) is a former Scottish football player and current coach of the English second division club Preston North End .

Player career

Alex Neil began his playing career in the Scottish First Division in 1999/2000 with the Scottish second division Airdrieonians FC . In July 2000 he moved to the English second division club Barnsley , with whom he was relegated to the third division in 2001/02 . In the two subsequent seasons, the club missed the return to the second division.

On July 29, 2004, Neil signed a contract with the English fourth division club Mansfield Town , which he left after only one season to join the Scottish second division Hamilton Academical in August 2005 . His first season in Scotland he finished with his new club as third in the table. In the Scottish First Division 2007/08 , Neil won the championship with his team and thus secured promotion to the first division. After the class remaining in the first two seasons in the Scottish Premier League had been achieved, the club rose in 2010/11 as bottom of the table back in the second division.

Coaching career

Hamilton Academical

On April 6, 2013, Neil was hired on an interim basis as a player -coach at Hamilton Academical after the club had separated from long-time coach Billy Reid. On May 24, 2013 he was employed after five wins in seven games. In his first full season as player-coach, he led his team into the play-offs as runner-up in the Scottish Championship 2013/14 and achieved promotion to the first division in the play-off against the penultimate of the Scottish Premiership 2013/14 Hibernian Edinburgh .

Norwich City

After a good start in the Scottish Premiership 2014/15 , Neil accepted an offer from English second division Norwich City on January 9, 2015 after almost ten years in Hamilton and became the new coach of the relegated Premier League. He got off to a good start with his new team in the Football League Championship 2014/15 . Thanks to five wins in five games in February 2015, he was named Manager of the Month in the second division. Neil led Norwich as third in the table in the play-offs and secured promotion to the Premier League with a 2-0 final victory over Middlesbrough FC . As penultimate, the club rose a year later from the Premier League 2015/16 . After City did not play a direct return to the first division as hoped in the 2016/17 season , the club announced the separation from Alex Neil on March 10, 2017.

Preston North End

On July 4, 2017, Neil was introduced as the new coach of second division Preston North End .

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manager Billy Reid exits Hamilton Accies (BBC Sport)
  2. ↑ Alex Neil is named Hamilton player-manager (BBC Sport)
  3. ↑ Promotion to the Scottish Premiership (BBC Sport)
  4. ↑ Alex Neil: Norwich City appoint Hamilton player-manager as boss (BBC Sport)
  5. ↑ Alex Neil named Sky Bet Championship Manager of the Month (The Football League)
  6. ↑ Promotion to the Premier League (BBC Sport)
  7. ↑ Norwich City: Manager Alex Neil sacked by Championship club (BBC Sport)
  8. ↑ Alex Neil: Preston North End appoint ex-Norwich boss as manager (BBC Sport)
personal data
SURNAME Neil, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neil, Alexander Francis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Bellshill , Scotland