Jocky Scott

Jocky Scott

Scott as Dundee manager, 2009
Personal information
Full name	John Alexander Scott
Date of birth	(1948-01-14) 14 January 1948
Place of birth	Aberdeen, Scotland
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	Chelsea
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1964–1975	Dundee	275	(113)
1975–1977	Aberdeen	52	(17)
1977–1978	Seattle Sounders	39	(9)
1978–1981	Dundee	27	(4)
International career
1971	Scotland	2	(0)
Managerial career
1986–1988	Dundee
1988–1991	Aberdeen (co-manager)
1991–1993	Dunfermline Athletic
1994	Arbroath
1996	Hibernian (caretaker)
1998–2000	Dundee
2000–2001	Notts County
2002	Raith Rovers
2005	Plymouth Argyle (caretaker)
2008–2010	Dundee
2011	Stirling Albion
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Alexander (Jocky) Scott (born 14 January 1948) is a Scottish football coach and former player probably best known for his playing career, and three managerial spells with Dundee. Scott was most recently the manager of Scottish Football League club Stirling Albion.

Club career

Scott played for Scotland, Dundee and Aberdeen. He memorably scored a hat-trick when Aberdeen beat Rangers 5–1 in a Scottish League Cup semi final. He was capped twice for the Scotland national team in 1971. He was Soccer Bowl 1977 finalist with the Seattle Sounders (lost 1–2 to the New York Cosmos) in the North American Soccer League.

Managerial career

After his playing career Scott moved into management. He managed Aberdeen, Dundee (on three separate occasions), Arbroath, Dunfermline Athletic, Notts County, Raith Rovers and Stirling Albion.

He also had coaching roles at Sunderland, Plymouth Argyle and Hibernian. The latter two he also had spells as manager on a caretaker basis.

Aberdeen appointed Scott to their coaching team in September 2012.

Managerial stats

As of 24 February 2013

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
Dundee		August 1986	May 1988	20	10	6	4	050.00
Aberdeen		August 1988	February 1992	117	63	35	19	053.85
Dunfermline		23 September 1991	31 May 1993	8	2	2	4	025.00
Arbroath		1994	1994
Dundee		8 February 1998	28 June 2000	95	35	18	42	036.84
Notts County		28 June 2000	10 October 2001	71	28	19	24	039.44
Raith Rovers		2 January 2002	1 May 2002	17	5	4	8	029.41
Dundee		30 October 2008	20 March 2010	65	31	13	21	047.69
Stirling Albion		19 January 2011	5 December 2011	38	5	8	25	013.16
Total				431	179	105	147	041.53

• Caretaker spells not included.
• Jocky Scott co-managed with Alex Smith at Aberdeen.
• Statistics based on soccerbase information.
• No statistics currently available for Arbroath.

Honours

Aberdeen (as co-manager with Alex Smith)

• Scottish Cup winners 1989–90
• Scottish League Cup winners 1989–90

Dundee

• Scottish Challenge Cup winners 2009–10

External links

• Newcastle Fans profile
• Jocky Scott at Soccerbase
• Jocky Scott at the Scottish Football Association