Ally Dawson

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Ally Dawson
Personal information
Full name	Alistair Robert Dawson
Date of birth	(1958-02-25) 25 February 1958
Place of birth	Johnstone, Scotland
Height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Playing position	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1975–1987	Rangers	218	(6)
1987–1990	Blackburn Rovers	40	(0)
1990–1991	Limerick	3	(0)
1990–1991	Airdrieonians	10	(1)
1991–1992	St. Andrews	6	(0)
National team
1980–1983	Scotland	5	(0)
Teams managed
1991–1992	St. Andrews
1999–2002	Hamilton Academical
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Alistair Robert "Ally" Dawson (born 25 February 1958 in Johnstone, Scotland) is a retired Scottish professional football defender who spent most of his career at Rangers.

In 2011, Dawson was inducted into Rangers' Hall of Fame.^[1]

Playing career

Dawson was signed as a sixteen-year-old in 1975 by manager Jock Wallace and made his debut in a pre-season tour in Canada. He was a full back who could play on either side of the pitch.

He never went on to fulfill his potential, partly because of a serious injury sustained during another club tour of Canada, when he fractured his skull. He recovered, and became a centre back. He made a total of 316 appearances for Rangers, scoring 8 goals. He received two Scottish Cup winner's medals, in 1979 and 1981, and four League Cup winner's medals – in 1979, 1984, 1985 and 1987. He was capped five times by Scotland, all while at Rangers.^[2]

After 12 years at the club, Dawson left Rangers for Blackburn Rovers in 1987 for £25,000. He signed for Limerick F.C. in 1990 and returned to Scotland later that season with Airdrie, before becoming Player/Manager of Maltese league club Luxol St. Andrews.

Managerial career

He went on to manage Hamilton Academical for a three-year spell between 1999 and 2003 where he won the Scottish Third Division title.

Honours

As manager

Hamilton Academical

Scottish Third Division : 2000-01

References

↑ "Hall of Fame inductees". Rangers Football Club. Rangers.co.uk. 5 March 2014.
↑ "Ally Dawson". www.londonhearts.com. London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 8 July 2015.

External links

Ally Dawson career at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
Ally Dawson at scottishfa.co.uk

Hamilton Academical F.C. – managers

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Buchanon (1922–23)
Duncan (1923–25)
McAndrew (1925–46)
McStay (1946–51)
Wylie (1951–53)
Cox (1953–56)
Lowe (1956–59)
Paton (1959–68)
Crines (1968–69)
Lamont (1969)
Ewing (1969–70)
Shearer (1970–71)
Simpson (1971–72)
Smith (1972–78)
McParland (1978–82)
Blackley (1982–83)
Auld (1983–84)
Lambie (1984–88)
Dempsey (1988–89)
G. Miller (1989)
Lambie (1989–90)
G. Miller (1990)
McLaren (1990–92)
Munro (1992–96)
Clark (1996–99)
C. Miller (1999–00)
Dawson (2000–02)
Hillcoat (2002–03)
Maitland (2003–05)
Reid (2005–13)
Neil (2013–15)
Canning (2015–)

Rangers F.C. – Hall of Fame

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