Ian Porterfield

John Porterfield
Personnel
birthday	February 11, 1946
place of birth	Dunfermline ,  Scotland
date of death	September 11, 2007
Place of death	Farnham ,  England
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1964	Cowdenbeath FC	1 0(0)
1964-1967	Raith Rovers	117 (17)
1967-1977	Sunderland AFC	230 (17)
1976	→  Reading FC  (loan)	5 0(0)
1977-1979	Sheffield Wednesday	106 0(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1977-1988	Sheffield Wednesday
1978-1981	Rotherham United
1981-1986	Sheffield United
1986-1988	Aberdeen FC
1988-1989	Chelsea FC (assistant coach)
1989-1991	Reading FC
1991-1993	Chelsea FC
1993-1994	Zambia
1994-1995	Saudi Arabia
1995-1996	Zimbabwe
1996	Bolton Wanderers (Assistant Coach)
1996-1998	Oman (assistant coach)
1998-2000	Trinidad and Tobago
2003-2006	Busan I'Park
2006-2007	Armenia
1 Only league games are given.

John "Ian" Porterfield (born February 11, 1946 in Dunfermline , † September 11, 2007 in Farnham ) was a Scottish football player and football coach.

Career

Player career

Porterfield began his career with the Raith Rovers in Scotland . In 1967 he moved to the south to Sunderland , with Sunderland he won the FA Cup in 1973. Porterfield was the goalscorer in the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium in London to make the then second division club Sunderland 1-0 against the highly favored players of Leeds United . After ten years with the Black Cats, he became player-coach at Sheffield Wednesday . He gave up the coaching post a year later.

Coaching career

After his career as a player he was first coach at Rotherham United . After a year at Rotherham , he became a coach at Sheffield United . Porterfield made the march through from the fourth English division to the second highest English division. He was released in 1986. From 1986 to 1988 he returned to his native Scotland and looked after FC Aberdeen . After Aberdeen, he worked for a year as assistant coach at Chelsea FC and for a year as coach at Reading FC . After the years 1991 to 1993, where he was the head coach of the Blues, he went to Asia and Africa to further develop football there. Porterfield has coached Zambia , Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe . In January 1996 he returned to the UK and became an assistant coach with the Bolton Wanderers . The Scot was released in May due to a drinking scandal (drunk driving) and left his home in Oman to train the national team. He also coached the national soccer team of Trinidad and Tobago . In 2003 he became the coach of Busan I'Park in South Korea with which he became the South Korean Cup winner. From April 2006 until his death, the Scot was the coach of the Armenian national team .

successes

As a player

• 1 × English cup winner with Sunderland FC (1973)

As a trainer

• 1 × South Korean cup winner with Busan I'Park (2004)

illness

In March 2007, Porterfield was diagnosed with colon cancer. He died in a Surrey hospice on September 11, 2007 . Porterfield left behind his wife, Glenda.

Web links

• Obituary in the Times
• Entry at neilbrown.newcastlefans.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ barryhugmansfootballers.com: Profile Ian Porterfield , accessed June 25, 2020