Chris Innes
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 Innes playing for Sydney FC in a trial match, 2009 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 13 July 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1996 | Blackburn United | 44 | (8) |
| 1996–1998 | Stenhousemuir | 35 | (2) |
| 1998–2003 | Kilmarnock | 75 | (3) |
| 1999 | → St Mirren (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 1999 | → Falkirk (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2003–2005 | Dundee United | 45 | (2) |
| 2005–2008 | Gretna | 89 | (12) |
| 2008–2009 | Livingston | 30 | (1) |
| 2009–2010 | St Mirren | 21 | (3) |
| 2010–2011 | Inverness Caledonian Thistle | 13 | (1) |
| 2011 | East Fife (trial) | 1 | (0) |
| 2012 | Arbroath | 12 | (2) |
| Total | 376 | (34) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Chris Innes (born 13 July 1976) is a Scottish football coach and former professional player who is the youth team coach at Motherwell.
Career[edit]
Innes was born on 13 July 1976, in Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland. He started his career at Stenhousemuir after joining the Warriors from Blackburn United in 1996 and moved to Kilmarnock for £50,000 in 1998. In 1999, he went out on loan twice, to St Mirren for 3 months and to Falkirk for just over a week. In 2003, he moved Dundee United where he played exactly fifty times.
Innes signed for Gretna on a free transfer in 2005. Although he missed out on United's Scottish Cup final appearance that season as he had already left for Gretna, Innes made it the following season when the Black and Whites were runners-up against Hearts. Innes was made captain of the rising club from the borders and helped the side gain promotion from the Scottish Third Division to the Scottish Premier League. After a season of bad results and financial difficulties for Gretna, Innes was made redundant on 25 March 2008. Gretna's reason for releasing their captain was because he had "attracted interest from other clubs".[1]
One of those clubs was New York Red Bulls of MLS, whom Innes trained with in April 2008. However, he decided against a move to the U.S. after failing to settle and returned to Scotland after two weeks, with St Johnstone and Dunfermline Athletic amongst several clubs keen to sign him.[2] In June 2008, Innes was thought to be near completing a move back to Tayside with Dundee,[3] but Livingston announced on their website in July 2008 that he had signed for them.[4] On 31 July 2009, Innes left Livingston to re-sign for St Mirren.
St Mirren[edit]
Innes scored his first St Mirren goal against Hibernian on 21 November 2009 and netted his second for the club against Kilmarnock on 2 January 2010. His third goal for the Buddies came against Aberdeen on 12 January, resulting in a 1–0 win, just a week after his second, ramming in a volley from an Andy Dorman corner.
On 10 June 2010, St Mirren announced that Innes was to leave the club when his contract expired.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle[edit]
Innes joined newly promoted SPL club Inverness Caledonian for the 2010–11 season on 20 July 2010, ahead of interest from former club Kilmarnock, Dundee and Falkirk. At the end of the 2010–11 season Innes announced that he would be leaving the club due to wanting to spend more time with his family in Edinburgh.
East Fife[edit]
Following his departure from Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Innes had trial period at East Fife playing for them in a Scottish Second Division fixture against Brechin City.[5] However, he decided against joining them permanently as he wanted to join a full-time club.[6]
Arbroath[edit]
On 8 February 2012, Innes signed for Scottish Second Division club Arbroath until the end of the season. The deal was confirmed by manager Paul Sheerin via Twitter. He then left the club after this deal expired in May 2012.
Career statistics[edit]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Other | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Stenhousemuir | 1996–97 | 2 | 0 | N/A | N/A | – | 2 | 0 | |||
| 1997–98 | 30 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 33 | 2 | ||
| Total | 32 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 2 | |
| Kilmarnock | 1998–99 | 4 | 1 | – | – | – | 4 | 1 | |||
| 1999–2000 | 5 | 0 | – | – | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |||
| 2000–01 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | 29 | 0 | ||
| 2001–02 | 20 | 1 | – | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 2 | ||
| 2002–03 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 22 | 1 | ||
| 2003–04 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 75 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 89 | 4 | |
| St Mirren (loan) | 1998–99 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 10 | 0 | ||
| Falkirk (loan) | 1999–00 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | |||
| Dundee United | 2003–04 | 29 | 1 | – | 2 | 0 | – | 31 | 1 | ||
| 2004–05 | 16 | 1 | – | 3 | 1 | – | 19 | 2 | |||
| Total | 45 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 3 | |
| Gretna | 2004–05 | 11 | 2 | – | – | – | 11 | 2 | |||
| 2005–06 | 31 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 39 | 8 | ||
| 2006–07 | 26 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 2 | |
| 2007–08 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 23 | 0 | |||
| Total | 75 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 89 | 4 | |
| Livingston | 2008–09 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 1 |
| 2009–10 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 1 | |
| St Mirren | 2009–10 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Career total | 273 | 19 | 16 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 315 | 21 | |
Honours[edit]
Kilmarnock
- Scottish League Cup runner-up: 2000–01
Gretna
- Scottish First Division: 2006–07
- Scottish Second Division: 2005–06
- Scottish Third Division: 2004–05
- Scottish Cup runner-up: 2005–06
References[edit]
- ^ "Gretna's Innes is made redundant". BBC Sport. 25 March 2008.
- ^ "Chris Innes to train with the Red Bulls". Soccer by Ives. 7 April 2008.
- ^ Roache, Ian (11 June 2008). "Dundee near Innes signing". The Courier (Dundee). Archived from the original on 3 July 2008. Retrieved 11 June 2008.
- ^ "Chris Innes signs for Livi". 15 July 2008.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Point Apiece". eastfifefc.info. East Fife F.C. 17 September 2011. Archived from the original on 24 April 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ "Fifers have to move on from Innes". scottishfootballleague.com. Scottish Football League. 26 October 2011. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ "Chris Innes". Soccerbase. CenturyComm. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
External links[edit]
- Chris Innes at Soccerbase
- 1976 births
- Living people
- Scottish men's footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- Stenhousemuir F.C. players
- Kilmarnock F.C. players
- St Mirren F.C. players
- Falkirk F.C. players
- Dundee United F.C. players
- Gretna F.C. players
- Livingston F.C. players
- Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. players
- East Fife F.C. players
- Arbroath F.C. players
- Scottish Premier League players
- Scottish Football League players
- Sportspeople from Broxburn, West Lothian
- Footballers from West Lothian
- Blackburn United F.C. players