Mark Edward McGhee was born on 25 May 1957 and is a Scottish former professional football player and coach.
44 Facts About Mark McGhee
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Mark McGhee was part of the Aberdeen side which won the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup and 1983 UEFA Super Cup, as well as three Scottish league titles.
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Mark McGhee began his professional career in 1975 at Morton, where he developed into a very promising centre forward.
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Mark McGhee returned north in March 1979 as Alex Ferguson's first major signing for Aberdeen.
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Mark McGhee made his debut for The Dons on 1 April 1979 against former club Morton.
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Mark McGhee won his first major honour the following season when Aberdeen won the Scottish Premier Division, the first time in 15 years that a club outwith the Old Firm had finished Scottish Champions.
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At Aberdeen Mark McGhee went on to win a further league title in 1984 as well as a hat-trick of successive Scottish Cup wins from 1982 to 1984.
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Mark McGhee won the European Super Cup the following season, with him scoring against Hamburg in the second leg at Pittodrie.
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Mark McGhee won a further Scottish Premier Division title in 1986 as Celtic pipped Hearts on goal difference.
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Mark McGhee won a further Scottish Cup in 1989 and was Celtic's top scorer that season, finishing joint top scorer in the Scottish Premier Division alongside Aberdeen's Charlie Nicholas.
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Mark McGhee joined Newcastle United for a second time in 1989.
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Mark McGhee quickly forged a successful partnership up front with Micky Quinn, and their goals saw Newcastle come close to gaining promotion to the First Division, finishing third in the Second Division.
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Mark McGhee finally retired from playing in 1993 due to injury.
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Mark McGhee officially retired as a player in 1993 and won the Division Two title with the Royals the following season and quickly adapted to the second flight during the next campaign, taking the team as high as second place by December 1994.
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Mark McGhee's move in December 1994 came despite having agreed to a long-term contract to remain at Reading.
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Mark McGhee remained at Filbert Street post-relegation and set about launching a promotion campaign but did not see the season out after being approached by Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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Mark McGhee left to take control at Wolves in December 1995, less than 12 months after arriving at Leicester.
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Mark McGhee moved to Wolves on 13 December 1995, taking his assistant Colin Lee along with him, following the sacking of Graham Taylor.
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Mark McGhee quickly added midfielders Simon Osborn and Steve Corica and tried to implement a more passing game than the direct tactics of his predecessor.
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Mark McGhee was given further funds to invest in the summer and brought in Iwan Roberts to boost the attack.
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Mark McGhee cut McGhee's spending power and dismissed his own son Jonathan as chairman, who had been instrumental in bringing McGhee to the club, thus undermining his job security.
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Mark McGhee managed a total of 156 competitive games for Wolves; 64 of them were won, 38 drawn and 54 lost.
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On 6 July 2000, Mark McGhee joined Coventry City, who were at the time managed by Gordon Strachan, as a scout.
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Mark McGhee swiftly won the Division Two title in his first season and led the club to the Division One play-offs in the following campaign.
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Mark McGhee was appointed manager of Brighton on 28 October 2003, just 13 days after leaving Millwall.
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Mark McGhee inherited the team left by Steve Coppell, who had moved to Reading.
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Gordon Strachan, a longtime friend and former teammate of Mark McGhee, recommended him for the then-vacant Scotland job in November 2007.
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Mark McGhee's sensitive handling of the death of club captain Phil O'Donnell, who collapsed on the pitch during a game with Dundee United and never regained consciousness, enhanced his profile within the club and the wider community.
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On 23 May 2008, Hearts made an official approach to Motherwell asking them permission to speak to Mark McGhee about making him their new manager, which Motherwell refused.
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Mark McGhee was expected to move, but Mark McGhee changed his mind before flying to Lithuania to meet with Romanov.
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On 12 June 2009, Mark McGhee was confirmed as the new manager of Aberdeen.
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Mark McGhee did not apologise for the performance, much to the ire of the fans.
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Mark McGhee's tenure ended with McGhee being statistically the second least successful Aberdeen manager, only ahead of Alex Miller, with just 17 wins from 62 matches.
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On 18 January 2012, Mark McGhee was appointed manager of Bristol Rovers on a two-and-a-half-year contract.
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Mark McGhee joined the coaching staff of the Scotland national side on 18 January 2013, as assistant to his close friend Gordon Strachan.
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Mark McGhee said that he hoped to continue in the role on a part-time basis after being appointed Motherwell manager in October 2015.
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Mark McGhee was appointed manager of Motherwell for a second time on 13 October 2015.
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Mark McGhee won the SPFL manager of the month award for March 2016.
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On 13 November 2017, Mark McGhee was appointed manager of League Two club Barnet.
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Two months later, Graham Westley took over as Head Coach with Mark McGhee moving to a "head of technical" role at the club.
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Mark McGhee left the club at the end of the season after the appointment of Lee Bradbury.
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On 27 January 2021, Mark McGhee joined National League side Stockport County as joint-assistant manager with Dave Conlon, assisting Simon Rusk who replaced long serving manager Jim Gannon.
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Mark McGhee departed the club with the sacking of Simon Rusk on 27 October 2021.
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Mark McGhee was winless in his first 12 games as manager, and finally ended that streak with a league win over Hibernian in May 2022.