Ian Edwin Stewart (born 10 September 1961) is a former

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from Northern Ireland.

Career

He played as winger for Queens Park Rangers,

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and

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in the 1980s, as well as Colchester United in their Football Conference/

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double in the 1991-92 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 year's World Cup runners up, and reigning European Champions, 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

in the summer of 1985 and joined

two years later. Stewart represented Northern Ireland in the 1986 Fifa World Cup in Mexico. He was the first British footballer to be endorsed by Nike. Today he works as a grassroots development officer for the Irish Football Association. He has a keen interest in music and puts on events around Northern Ireland.

Honours

Club

; Queens Park Rangers *

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Winner (1): 1982–83 ; Colchester United * Football Conference Winner (1): 1991–92

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Sporting Heroes profile
1961 births Living people Northern Ireland men's international footballers Queens Park Rangers F.C. players Newcastle United F.C. players Portsmouth F.C. players Aldershot F.C. players Colchester United F.C. players Association footballers from Belfast Men's association footballers from Northern Ireland 1986 FIFA World Cup players English Football League players Men's association football forwards Brentford F.C. players {{NorthernIreland-footy-bio-stub