Colin Calderwood (born 20 January 1965) is a Scottish professional

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manager and former

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. He is the assistant manager at

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. As a player, he was a

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who notably played in the

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for

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and

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and in the

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for

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and

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. He was capped 36 times by

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and was part of their

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and

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squads. Following retirement, he became manager of

in 2003, guiding the club to promotion in 2006. He then became manager of Nottingham Forest helping the club win promotion in 2008. Calderwood was sacked by Forest in December 2008 and then moved to

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, working as first team coach. After a year with the Tyneside club, Calderwood became a manager again by moving to Hibernian, but he was sacked after just over a year in that job. He was associated with

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for several years, working as his assistant manager at Newcastle United,

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and

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. After a spell as assistant manager at Aston Villa, he returned to full-time management and had two-year spell in charge of

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Club career

Mansfield Town

Despite being born and raised in the

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area, Calderwood never played in the Scottish leagues. He started his career in the lower reaches of

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in England, with

. He played 100 league games for the club, three as substitute. His debut for Mansfield was spoiled by the club making an error in his registration which caused them to be deducted two league points.

Swindon Town

Swindon Town manager

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signed Calderwood from

in 1985, with a

tribunal setting the fee at £27,500. The 21-year-old Calderwood was installed as the club captain, and he made his debut on the first day of the season, a 1–0 defeat at

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on 17 August 1985. Although that season started badly, it ended with the Town breaking the League points record as they won the Fourth Division title. Calderwood's performance in Swindon Town's defence won him the Adver Player of the Year award from the

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. The following season, Calderwood helped Swindon Town to their achieve their second successive promotion, after beating Gillingham in the playoff final replay at

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. As Swindon gradually improved in Division Two, Calderwood led the defence, missing only thirteen league games over the next three years. At the end of this period, he led the Town to their first promotion to the top flight, after beating

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in the playoff final at Wembley in 1990. Shortly afterwards, Swindon were demoted to the Third Division due to an irregular payments scandal. The club were reinstated to the Second Division after an appeal. Calderwood was arrested and questioned by the police with regard to the scandal, though was not ultimately charged with anything. Swindon narrowly avoided relegation in the 1990–91 season, which Calderwood mostly missed after a tackle by

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player

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caused a serious injury. During the following two seasons, Calderwood returned to be an ever-present in the Swindon side. Now under the management of

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, Swindon were promoted to the newly founded

at the end of the 1992–93 season after a 4-3 playoff final victory over

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. Calderwood was picked for the Football League representative side, playing against their Italian counterparts.

Tottenham Hotspur

Calderwood's contract with Swindon expired in the summer of 1993. Former manager

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signed him for Tottenham Hotspur, with a tribunal setting the transfer fee at £1.25 million. This set a new Swindon Town club record for transfer fee received. Whilst at Tottenham Hotspur for five years Calderwood played with a succession of defenders including

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and

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. While at Tottenham he gained many of his

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caps, making his debut against

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in the

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section. Calderwood represented his country at

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and the

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, playing in all three matches at the first tournament and two matches at the second. He was a regular under Scotland manager Craig Brown. Despite not being part of Tottenham's squad for the 1999 Football League Cup Final he made four appearances during their victorious League Cup campaign. Two days after the final Calderwood moved on from Tottenham in March 1999, signing for

. He then had brief spells with Nottingham Forest and

before retiring. Calderwood's career was brought to an end by a broken leg suffered while with Nottingham Forest.

Coaching career

Northampton Town

Upon retirement as a player, Calderwood became

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manager at Tottenham. He became

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of Northampton Town on 9 October 2003. In his first two seasons in charge, Northampton reached the promotion playoffs. They finally won promotion in 2006 by finishing second in

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, setting a new club record for clean sheets in a single season, with 25.

Nottingham Forest

Calderwood was appointed as manager by Nottingham Forest in May 2006. Calderwood enjoyed an unbeaten league start to his Forest campaign and won the managerial monthly award for August 2006. Forest led

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by seven points in late November 2006. This lead was squandered, and the club finished in fourth place, 11 points behind leaders Scunthorpe United. Forest lost 5–4 on aggregate to

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in the promotion playoffs. In the 2007–08 season, Forest failed to win any of their first six competitive games of the season. Forest went on a good run of form after this, losing just once in fifteen games. Calderwood won a manager of the month award during this run, but he decided to sell the award trophy on

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to raise funds for presents to hospital patients in

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. The auction was said to have raised around £2,000. After this, there was a spell of inconsistent results, particularly away from home, which led to Forest dropping into the promotion play-off zone. Forest were nine points short of the automatic promotion places with just four games remaining, which led Calderwood to admit that automatic promotion was unlikely. Forest won six out of their last seven games, which was enough to earn a second-place finish and automatic promotion to the

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. Calderwood was sacked by Forest in December 2008, as the club had secured just four wins by Christmas.

Newcastle United

Calderwood was appointed first team coach at

on 26 January 2009. Newcastle were relegated from the

at the end of the

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. Calderwood then worked as an assistant manager to

as Newcastle gained promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt by winning the 2009–10 Football League Championship.

Hibernian

On 18 October 2010, Calderwood left Newcastle to become manager of

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side Hibernian. After three losses in his first three matches in charge, including an

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defeat by rivals Hearts, Calderwood's first win as Hibs boss came in a shock 3–0 win against Rangers at Ibrox. Despite this surprise victory, Calderwood suffered criticism after Hibs went on a poor run of results, winning just two of his first fourteen matches as manager. This prompted speculation that he had offered to resign, which was denied. A five match winning run lifted Hibs up into eighth place in the SPL and earned Calderwood the SPL monthly award for February 2011. Hibs finished the 2010–11 season in tenth place. In June 2011,

and

both approached Hibs with a view to appointing Calderwood as their assistant manager. Calderwood was sacked by Hibs on 6 November 2011, having won just 12 games out of 49.

Birmingham City

Calderwood was appointed assistant manager at

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club Birmingham City on 24 November 2011, working with Chris Hughton for a third time. When Hughton left for Premier League club

on 7 June 2012, Calderwood went with him as assistant manager. He left the club when Hughton was dismissed on 6 April 2014.

Brighton and Hove Albion

In early February 2015, he was appointed assistant manager at

, rejoining Hughton for a fourth time. He resigned from the club on 12 November 2016 to take up a position elsewhere.

Aston Villa

After Brighton played out a 1–1 draw with

on 18 November, it was confirmed that Calderwood would become assistant manager at Villa, working with

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Cambridge United

Calderwood was appointed manager at Cambridge United on 19 December 2018. He joined the club on an initial 18-month contract. Cambridge avoided relegation in his initial period in charge. Calderwood signed 11 new players ahead of the 2019–20 season. His new-look squad had a goalless draw at Bradford City on the opening day, before upsetting Championship side Brentford in the League Cup first round in a penalty shootout. After a 4–0 win at Mansfield Town, Calderwood signed a two-year contract extension with Cambridge on 20 September 2019. The team then had a poor run of results and he was sacked by Cambridge on 29 January 2020, following a 4–0 defeat to Salford City. He left with the team 18th in

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Blackpool

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head coach

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brought Calderwood in to be co-assistant with Mike Garrity in October 2020. He remained in the role until June 2021, after assisting Blackpool's promotion to The Championship.

Northampton Town

Calderwood returned to Northampton as assistant manager on 17 June 2021.

Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first.''

Manager

Honours

As player

Promotions * 1985–86:

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Champion (promotion to Division 3) - Swindon Town * 1986–87: Division 3 Playoff Winner (promotion to Division 2) - Swindon Town * 1989–90: Division 2 Playoff Winner (promotion to Division 1) - Swindon Town * 1992–93: Division 1 Playoff Winner (promotion to The Premiership) - Swindon Town

As manager

Promotions * 2005–06:

Runner-up (promotion to

) - Northampton Town * 2007–08:

Runner-up (promotion to

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) - Nottingham Forest Individual * League One Manager of the Month: August 2006, November 2007, April 2008 * League Two Manager of the Month: January 2006

References

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