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Full name
  
Scott Booth

Name
  
Scott Booth

Role
  
Football player


Playing position
  
Striker

Height
  
1.77 m

1987–88
  
Deeside Boys Club

Position
  
Forward

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Date of birth
  
(1971-12-16) 16 December 1971 (age 43)

Current team
  
Glasgow City (head coach)

Teams coached
  
Glasgow City F.C. (Manager, since 2015), Stenhousemuir F.C. (Manager, 2014–2015)

Similar People
  
Eoin Jess, Billy Dodds, Duncan Shearer, Eddie Wolecki, Craig Burley

Place of birth
  
Aberdeen, Scotland

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Scott Booth (born 16 December 1971 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish football coach and former player, who is currently head coach of Glasgow City in the Scottish Women's Premier League.

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A forward by position, he began his playing career at Aberdeen as a teenager, before moving to Germany in 1997 to play for Borussia Dortmund. After a spell in the Netherlands with FC Twente, he returned to Aberdeen in 2003 before retiring a year later.

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Aberdeen

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Booth started his career at his hometown club of Aberdeen, making his debut in 1990 aged 18 and emerging into the team alongside fellow youth graduate Eoin Jess.

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Seen as a favourite by the Dons fans, Booth was part of the Aberdeen side that came close to winning the League title on the final day of the Scottish Premier League in the 1990–91 season, and achieved further league runners-up finishes in 1993 and 1994, plus losing finals in the 1992–93 League Cup and Scottish Cup. He played in every game of the club's Scottish League Cup campaign in 1995 until an injury ruled him out of the final, in which Aberdeen defeated Dundee 2–0.

Germany, Netherlands and return

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In summer 1997, Booth left Pittodrie for a surprise move to Borussia Dortmund in Germany under the Bosman ruling. The success of fellow Scot Paul Lambert was perhaps one of the reasons behind the move; nevertheless, he never really got an extended run with the then-European champions after the coach who brought him in – Ottmar Hitzfeld – moved to another role at the club, although he got a brief taste of Champions League football alongisde the likes of Andreas Möller and Matthias Sammer, scoring against Sparta Prague. He is also notable for being the first Scot to win the Intercontinental Cup (albeit as an unused substitute in the match against Cruzeiro).

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Booth moved on loan to Dutch club FC Utrecht in 1998, seeking more playing time to secure his place in the Scotland squad for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. A year later he moved to another Eredivisie side, Vitesse Arnhem, again on loan, and contributed to a strong season where the club only missed out on Champions League qualification by a goal difference of two.

He thereafter left Borussia Dortmund permanently, returning to the Netherlands to sign with FC Twente for a fee equivalent to £400,000. He was to become a favourite in Enschede, playing there for four years and picking up a winner's medal when the Tukkers won the KNVB Cup in 2001 after a dramatic penalty shoot-out (in which he scored) in the final. In the following season he had to fight for his place, and was close to returning to Scotland to play under former manager Alex Smith; he also made his last appearances in continental competition in the 2001–02 UEFA Cup.

Booth rejoined Aberdeen in the summer of 2003. He was the club's top scorer in the 2003–04 season, but was hit by injury. He retired from playing at the end of his contract in 2004, aged 32. Over his two spells he made 229 appearances in all competitions for Aberdeen, scoring 70 goals.

International career

Booth won 22 caps for Scotland, scoring six goals, and was a member of Scotland's Euro 1996 and 1998 World Cup squads. He had previously played for the Under-21 team, and set a goalscoring record for the team.

International goals

Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first.

Commentator

After retiring from football, Booth began a career in broadcasting. He worked as a match co-commentator and pundit for Setanta Sports until its UK broadcasting operation went into administration. He has also worked for STV, BBC Radio Scotland and ESPN. Booth scaled back these commitments when he was appointed as a national youth team coach by the Scottish Football Association.

Coaching career

Having gained a UEFA Pro Licence, Booth was appointed by the Scottish Football Association as Scotland under-15 and under-16 assistant manager in December 2011, working under Mark Wotte.

He was appointed manager of Scottish League One club Stenhousemuir in February 2014. On 1 February 2015 he was relieved of his duties with the club sitting just above the relegation positions in League One.

Booth was appointed head coach of Scottish Women's Premier League club Glasgow City in July 2015, taking over from Eddie Wolecki Black.

The club won the (summer seasonal) League Championship in 2015 and 2016 — taking their run of consecutive titles to 10 — and also lifted the Scottish Women's Cup in November 2015 to clinch a fourth treble in a row, although in 2016 defeats to Hibernian in both finals brought the cup sequences to an end.

Honours

Aberdeen
  • Scottish League Cup: 1995–96
  • Borussia Dortmund
  • Intercontinental Cup: 1997
  • FC Twente
  • KNVB Cup: 2000–01
  • Managerial statistics

    As of 31 January 2015

    References

    Scott Booth Wikipedia