Colin Dobson

Colin Dobson

Personal information
Full name	Colin Dobson
Date of birth	9 May 1940 (1940-05-09)
Place of birth	Eston, England
Playing position	Inside-forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1961–1966	Sheffield Wednesday	177	(49)
1966–1972	Huddersfield Town	155	(50)
1971	→ Brighton & Hove Albion (loan)	4	(0)
1972–1976	Bristol Rovers	62	(4)
National team
1961	England under-23s	2	(0)
Teams managed
	Bahrain
	Al Rayyan
1994-1995	Al Arabi
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Colin Dobson (born 9 May 1940 in Eston, Yorkshire) is an English former footballer, who played as an inside-forward. He has also had a long carer in coaching and coached domestic and national teams in Arabia. He is currently a scout at Stoke City.

Club career

Dobson played for Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield Town, Brighton & Hove Albion (on loan) and Bristol Rovers before becoming Bristol Rovers player-coach.

International career

Dobson won two England under-23 caps in 1961.

Coaching career

Dobson left Rovers to become the youth coach at Coventry City. He acted as Port Vale's coach on a voluntary basis from December 1983 to March 1984. Later he became the coach of Bahrain and then Qatar side Al Rayyan before returning to England to take up the youth coach position at Aston Villa. He also was the youth coach at Portuguese Sporting Lisbon, the youth coach and chief scout at Gillingham, a coach back at the Coventry City youth set-up before taking up the position as first team coach of Kuwaitee Al Arabi. In September 1995 he returned to Port Vale as a temporary coach, but departed in May 1996.