Ian Stewart (Northern Irish footballer)

Ian Stewart
Personal information
Full name	Ian Edwin Stewart
Date of birth	10 September 1961 (age 63)
Place of birth	Belfast, Northern Ireland
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Retired
Senior career*
Years	Team
1980–1985	Queens Park Rangers
1982–1983	→Millwall (loan)
1985–1987	Newcastle United
1987–1988	Portsmouth
1988	→ Brentford (loan)
1988–1992	Aldershot
1992	Colchester United
1992–1993	Harrow Borough
International career
1982–1987	Northern Ireland
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ian Edwin Stewart (born Belfast, 10 September 1961) is a former footballer from Northern Ireland.

Career

He played as winger for Queens Park Rangers, Newcastle United, Portsmouth and Aldershot F.C. in the 1980s, as well as Colchester United in their Football Conference/FA Trophy double in the 1991/1992 season, scoring several important goals during the Trophy success in particular. He made his league debut for QPR as substitute against Blackburn Rovers in October 1980. On 17 November 1982 he scored his first international and Northern Ireland's winning goal versus that years World Cup runners up West Germany in a European Championship qualifying match at Windsor Park, Belfast. One year later in the return game in Hamburg he created the winning goal for Norman Whiteside in another 1-0 win.

Stewart was a crowd favourite at QPR but moved to Newcastle United in the summer of 1985 and joined Portsmouth F.C. two years later.^[2] Stewart represented Northern Ireland in the 1986 Fifa World Cup in Mexico. He was the first British footballer to be endorsed by Nike. Today Ian works as a Grassroots development officer for the Irish Football Association. Ian has a keen interest in music and puts on events around Northern Ireland.