This article is about the Scottish footballer. For the Irish footballer, see Barry Ferguson (Irish footballer).
Barry Ferguson MBE
Ferguson with Birmingham City, 2009 pre-season
Personal information
Full name
Barry Ferguson[1]
Date of birth
(1978-02-02) 2 February 1978 (age 46)[2]
Place of birth
Hamilton, Scotland
Height
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[3]
Position(s)
Midfielder
Youth career
Rangers SABC[4]
1994–1997
Rangers
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps
(Gls)
1997–2003
Rangers
151
(24)
2003–2005
Blackburn Rovers
36
(3)
2005–2009
Rangers
137
(20)
2009–2011
Birmingham City
72
(0)
2011–2014
Blackpool
80
(1)
2012
→ Fleetwood Town (loan)
6
(0)
2014–2015
Clyde
1
(0)
Total
484
(48)
International career
1997–1998
Scotland U21
12
(1)
1998–2009
Scotland
45
(3)
Managerial career
2014
Blackpool (caretaker)
2014–2017
Clyde
2018–2021
Kelty Hearts
2021–2022
Alloa Athletic
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Barry FergusonMBE[5] (born 2 February 1978) is a Scottish football coach, former player and pundit who was most recently the manager of Alloa Athletic.
Ferguson spent most of his playing career at Rangers, in two spells either side of a £7.5 million transfer to English club Blackburn Rovers. He totalled 431 games and 60 goals for Rangers, whom he captained between 2000 and 2003 and again between 2005 and 2009.[6] Ferguson won the Scottish Premier League, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup five times apiece for Rangers, including a treble in 2003, which earned him the honour of SFWA Footballer of the Year. He also helped Rangers to reach the 2008 UEFA Cup final.
Ferguson made 45 appearances for the Scotland national team, starting from 1998. In 2009, following behavioural incidents while on national duty, he was stripped of the captaincy of Rangers and told he would no longer be considered for international selection.[7][8]
Later in his career, he returned to England with Birmingham City, Blackpool and Fleetwood Town. Towards the end of his playing spell with Blackpool, he served as caretaker manager of the club. Ferguson was appointed player-manager of Clyde in June 2014; he resigned from this position in February 2017. He became manager of Kelty Hearts in October 2018, and he left them in May 2021 after guiding them to promotion to the SPFL for the first time. Ferguson then became manager of Alloa Athletic soon after, but left the club on 14 February after a run of one win in eleven games.
^"Professional retain list & free transfers 2012/13" (PDF). The Football League. 18 May 2013. p. 76. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
^Hugman, Barry J. (2005). The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946–2005. Queen Anne Press. p. 205. ISBN 1-85291-665-6.
^"Player Profile: Barry Ferguson". Birmingham City F.C. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
^"SABC continue to create stars for the future". Youth Football Scotland. 6 November 2013. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
^Cite error: The named reference MBE2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Cite error: The named reference gersBF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Scots end Gers pair's cap career". BBC Sport. 3 April 2009. Retrieved 15 August 2009.
^"Ferguson and McGregor No Longer Scotland Players". Scottish Football Association (The SFA). 3 April 2009. Retrieved 3 August 2009.
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