Jim Stewart (Scottish footballer)

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Jim Stewart
Personal information
Full name James Garvin Stewart [1]
Date of birth (1954-03-09) 9 March 1954 (age 69)
Place of birth Kilwinning, Scotland
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1970–1971 Troon
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1972–1977 Kilmarnock 136 (0)
1977–1980 Middlesbrough 34 (0)
1980–1984 Rangers 55 (0)
1983Dumbarton (loan) 2 (0)
1984–1986 St Mirren 9 (0)
1986 Partick Thistle 8 (0)
Total244(0)
International career
1974–1978 Scottish League XI 3 (0)
1977–1978 Scotland 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

James Garvin Stewart (born 9 March 1954) is a Scottish former football goalkeeper.

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Football career

Playing

He began his career with local side Troon, and he went on to play for Kilmarnock, Middlesbrough, Rangers, St Mirren and Partick Thistle. Stewart earned 2 caps for Scotland and was included in the squad at the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

Coaching

He was later the goalkeeping coach at Kilmarnock and Heart of Midlothian, who he left to rejoin Rangers in August 2007. [2] He worked with the SFA as a youth goalkeeping coach before joined the Scotland national football team setup under Gordon Strachan in 2013, on a part-time basis. [3] Stewart left Rangers in March 2017, following the appointment of Pedro Caixinha as team manager. [4] He was then the goalkeeping coach at Nottingham Forest from May 2017 to January 2018. [5] [6]

Personal life

His son Colin also played as a goalkeeper for Kilmarnock, and daughter-in-law Julie Fleeting is the all-time leading scorer for the Scotland women's national football team.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "Jim Stewart". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  2. "Stewart nets Gers coaching role". BBC Sport. BBC. 1 August 2007.
  3. "Craig Gordon: Scotland goalkeeper cherishing the Euros for those who missed out". BBC Sport. 11 June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021. Now days away from a first appearance at a major tournament, Gordon considers all of those who never made it, from former team-mates to his first coach at Tynecastle, Jim Stewart. "I actually feel sorry for him that he's going to miss out on this," he says of Scotland's goalkeeping coach of 16 years. "He had so long with Scotland. Stevie Woods has taken over now and he's a lucky charm, having managed to qualify for a finals so soon. Jim's been there and done it with the national team as player – I think it was the World Cup in '74 he went to – and then to be the goalkeeping coach and not make it – I do feel sorry for him."
  4. "Jim Stewart". Rangers.co.uk. Rangers Football Club. 16 March 2017.
  5. "Stewart joins coaching staff". Nottingham Forest FC. 27 May 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  6. Davies, Matt (30 January 2018). "Nottingham Forest goalkeeping coach Jim Stewart leaves as former Birmingham City keeper steps in". Nottingham Post. Retrieved 22 February 2018.