Full name Scot Gemmill Parents Archie Gemmill Years Team Height 1.85 m | Playing position Role Footballer Name Scot Gemmill Position Midfielder | |
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Date of birth (1971-01-02) 2 January 1971 (age 44) | ||
Scotland "Scot" Gemmill (born 2 January 1971) is a former Scottish footballer and a UEFA A Licensed Coach. He is currently the manager of the Scotland under-21 team. He played as a midfielder for Nottingham Forest, Everton, Preston North End, Leicester City, Oxford United, New Zealand Knights and Scotland. He is the son of former Scottish international footballer Archie Gemmill, and was born in Paisley.
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Club career
Gemmill started his career at Nottingham Forest as an apprentice on leaving school in the summer of 1987 and two years later he was given a professional contract by manager Brian Clough, who then gave him his first team debut on 30 March 1991 in a 3–1 defeat by Wimbledon at Plough Lane.
Gemmill established himself as a regular player in 1991–92, when he scored eight goals in 39 league games and also helped Forest win the ZDS Cup as well as finish runners-up in the Football League Cup. He remained a regular first team player until he was sold to Everton for £250,000 on 25 March 1999. During his 12 years at the City Ground he was involved in two promotion winning teams (1994 and 1998), three relegated teams (1993, 1997 and 1999), oversaw a third-place finish in 1995, a run to the quarter finals of the UEFA Cup in 1996, and played under five different managers.
By the end of the 2002–03 season, he had played 97 Premier League games for Everton but his first team chances had become increasingly limited since David Moyes replaced Walter Smith as manager in March 2002. He did not make a single league appearances for the Toffees in the 2003–04 season, during which he spent seven games on loan at Preston North End and scored once against Bradford, and at the start of 2004–05 he ended more than five years at Goodison Park when he signed for Leicester City on a free transfer. He played 17 games in two years at the Walkers Stadium before a one-game spell at Oxford United, before he finished his career with a one-year spell at the New Zealand Knights.
International career
Gemmill was part of the Scotland squads for the 1996 European Championships and 1998 World Cup but failed to make an appearance in either, a situation he described for the latter as "bittersweet" and "heartbreaking".
He won 26 caps for Scotland and scored one goal, against Hong Kong in a Reunification Cup match in 2002. Gemmill played his last game for Scotland in April 2003, in a 2–0 home friendly defeat to Austria, as a half-time substitute.
Coaching career
His first steps in to coaching were as a player/coach under Jim Smith at Oxford United in 2006. He then became player/coach at the New Zealand Knights in the Australian Hyundai A-League.
In March 2014, he was appointed as head coach of the Scotland U17 team for the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship. Gemmill was appointed Scotland U21 head coach in September 2016.