2000–2001 → Cowdenbeath (loan) Position Defender 1998–2002 Livingston Current team Kelty Hearts F.C. | Years Team Role Footballer Name Tam Courts | |
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Date of birth (1981-08-10) 10 August 1981 (age 34) | ||
Place of birth Kirkcaldy, Scotland Playing position | ||
Thomas "Tam" Courts (born 10 August 1981) is a Scottish footballer who is currently player/manager of Kelty Hearts in the Scottish Junior Football Association, East Region. He has previously played in the Scottish Football League First Division for Livingston.
Career
Courts began his professional career at Livingston and made his first team debut in February 1999 against Clyde in a Scottish Football League Second Division game. With Livingston promoted as champions that year, Courts made four league appearances in the First Division the following season before departing for a loan spell at Cowdenbeath.
Courts dropped into Junior football with local Fife sides Kelty Hearts and Hill of Beath Hawthorn after his eventual release by Livingston in 2002. A further spell in the SFL with East Fife in 2006–07 ended with Courts being loaned back to Hill of Beath before joining Kelty for a second time in late 2007.
After the sacking of Willie Newbigging in October 2013, Courts was appointed player-manager of Kelty Hearts at the age of 32.
Since becoming player-manager at Kelty Hearts, Courts saved the club from relegation before winning the Super League title for the first time in the clubs history. A second place then followed the next year and the club are currently on course to regain the Super League once again.
Courts has also played for the Scotland Junior international team and captained the squad in the 2013 Umbro Quadrangular Trophy in the Republic of Ireland.