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• Stuart Malcolm (Caretaker)

  Took charge on Sunday November 26th, 2023

  

• Dick Campbell

  Took charge on Tuesday March 8th, 2016

  

  An extremely well known, legend of the Scottish game, Dick was our manager since 2016 and late 2023, leading us to two league titles and five seasons in the Championship.

• Todd Lumsden

  Took charge on Thursday April 16th, 2015

  

  Todd was assistant manager to Allan Moore and took charge of two games as caretaker manager before being appointed permanently on the 30th of April 2015, just prior to the end of the season play offs which we eventually lost to Queen's Park in the se

• Allan Moore

  Took charge on Wednesday June 25th, 2014

  

  Moore took over in the summer of 2014 after Paul Sheerin moved on to Aberdeen, and got off to a flyer with a superb run in the first several points of the season, but after Christmas things turned sours and the wins dried up and after an awful run of

• Paul Sheerin

  Took charge on Thursday May 27th, 2010

  

  Paul Sheerin was appointed player/ manager after Jim Weir's exit to Brechin, and after a slightly ropey start, Sheerin led the club to it's first ever title win - the Scottish League Two Championship. As well as being an excellent manager for the clu

• Jim Weir

  Took charge on Sunday November 1st, 2009

  

  Jim Weir was appointed in November of 2009 having previously been the manager of Montrose and having had a long playing career mainly with Hamilton and St. Johnstone. With the club stuck to the bottom of the table, Weir utilised the loan market to s

• Robbie Raeside (Caretaker)

  Took charge on Tuesday October 20th, 2009

  

  Raeside had returned to the club as player/ assistant manager until John McGlashan, having previously played at Gayfield for a brief spell in 2000. When McGlashan resigned in the September of 2009, Raeside took charge of the club for a brief spell pr

• John McGlashan

  Took charge on Thursday September 29th, 2005

  

  John McGlashan featured for us as a player in the 90s and early 00s before leaving the club in 2005 to become manager at Dundee Violet. After the clubs poor start to the 05-06 season, and Harry Cairney's subsequent resignation, McGlashan was brought

• Harry Cairney

  Took charge on Friday September 10th, 2004

  

  Brechin City legend Harry Cairney was appointed manager after Steve Kirk's resignation, following a spell as manager of Annan Athletic, then of the East of Scotland league. Cairney was unable to keep the club in the Second Divison and following a poo

• Jake Ferrier (Caretaker)

  Took charge on Sunday August 22nd, 2004

  

  Ferrier, well known in local footballing circles, joined the club as first team coach in May of 2000, having previously been assistant manager to John Young at Brechin City. Five months later, after the resignation of Dave Baikie, Ferrier took charge

• Steve Kirk

  Took charge on Tuesday October 7th, 2003

  

  Steve Kirk became first team manager after the departure of John Brownlie, having previously been his assistant and appearing on a couple of occaisions for the team. The former Motherwell hitman was able to keep the team up on the last day of the 03-

• John Brownlie

  Took charge on Friday September 29th, 2000

  

  After Dave Baikie's departure, John Brownlie was the man appointed as manager at Gayfield. The experieced former defender, who spent most of his career with Hibs and Newcastle, joined the Lichties after spells as manager of Cowdenbeath, Meadowbank an

• Jake Ferrier (Caretaker)

  Took charge on Monday September 18th, 2000

  

  Ferrier, well known in local footballing circles, joined the club as first team coach in May of 2000, having previously been assistant manager to John Young at Brechin City. Five months later, after the resignation of Dave Baikie, Ferrier took charge

• Dave Baikie

  Took charge on Tuesday June 10th, 1997

  

  After winning countless trophies in Junior football with Tayport, including the much coveted Scottish Junior Cup, chairman John Christianson appointed Dave Baikie in the summer of 1997 after the departure of Tommy Campbell. Baikie immediately changed

• Tommy Campbell

  Took charge on Friday December 6th, 1996

  

  After spending several relatively successful seasons at Forfar, Campbell was appointed manager in December of 1996 after John Brogan's departure, but he failed to make any sort of improvement and the club finished the season rock bottom, before Campb

• John Brogan

  Took charge on Wednesday January 25th, 1995

  

  Brogan was brought in as manager in the January of 1995, having previously spent 6 years as manager of Stirling Albion from 1988 to 1994. Unfortunately he wasn't able to improve on the performances of his predecessors and he left in late November 199

• Jimmy Cant (Caretaker)

  Took charge on Wednesday December 28th, 1994

  

  Club legend Jim Cant, who had previously spent 12 years at Gayfield through the 60s and 70s as a player, and was assistant to George Mackie, was put in temporary charge after Mackie left the club in late December of 1994, and oversaw several games be

• George Mackie

  Took charge on Saturday April 16th, 1994

  

  George Mackie was well known at Gayfield having spent 3 years at the club as a player in the 80s, and he was appointed co-manager alongside Donald Park following the departure of Jocky Scott. However with Park leaving fairly soon after their appointm

• Donald Park

  Took charge on Thursday April 14th, 1994

  

  Donald Park was appointed co-manager alongside George Mackie, having previously been in charge at Meadowbank Thistle following a successful playing career in the Scottish game. Park and Mackie took charge for the last 5 games of the 94-95 season befo

• Jocky Scott

  Took charge on Monday January 17th, 1994

  

  After a long playing career mainly spent at Dundee, followed by spells as manager at Dens Park as well as with Aberdeen and Dunfermline, Jocky Scott was appointed the new manager at Gayfield following Danny McGrain's departure. Unfortunately, Scott o

• Danny McGrain

  Took charge on Tuesday November 10th, 1992

  

  Following a 17 year playing career at Celtic, followed by a brief spell at Hamilton and then Clydebank as a coach, 62 time capped Danny McGrain was appointed manager in November of 1992. McGrain did manage to improve things slightly, and led the club

• Mickey Lawson

  Took charge on Monday December 23rd, 1991

  

  Lawson was appointed manager in December 1991 following the departure of Walter Borthwick, taking on his first managerial job following a 17 year playing career in the Scottish lower leagues. Unfortunately he lasted less than 12 months in the job bef

• Walter Borthwick

  Took charge on Wednesday May 22nd, 1991

  

  Walter Borthwick joined the club as manager in the summer of 1991, having spend most of the 80s as a first team coach at Hearts following a 16 year playing career including a 7 year spell at East Fife.Borthwick's reign at Gayfield only lasted

• Bobby Waddell (Caretaker)

  Took charge on Thursday April 18th, 1991

  

  Waddell previously played for the club and stepped in as caretaker manager between the sacking of Ian Gibson and appointment of Walter Borthwick.

• Ian Gibson

  Took charge on Friday April 20th, 1990

  

  After John Young's departure, Ian Gibson stepped up to become caretaker manager initially being being given the role of player/ manager for the 90-91 campaign. Gibson, who had joined the club in 1989 as a player from Raith Rovers, had previously been

• John Young

  Took charge on Wednesday December 17th, 1986

  

  Having previously spent the final two years of his playing career at Gayfield, and being assistant manager to Jimmy Bone, it was Young who stepped up to replace him in December 1986. During his two and a half seasons in charge Young struggled to prog

• Jimmy Bone

  Took charge on Thursday February 21st, 1985

  

  After the departune of George Fleming, ex Lichtie number 9 Jimmy Bone was enticed back to Gayfield as player/ manager in February 1985. Unfortunately Bone was unable to stop the slide and the Lichties finished bottom of the division in his first seas

• Graham Shaw (Caretaker)

  Took charge on Friday January 11th, 1985

  

  Shaw was signed in the summer of 1980 after leaving Hearts and he spent a total of five years at Gayfield. During his first three seasons he was a regular in the team before a bad injury kept him out for the majority of the 1983-84 campaign. The foll

• George Fleming

  Took charge on Monday December 12th, 1983

  

  George Fleming was appointed to succeed Ian Stewart and the former Hearts, Dundee United and St Johnstone man nearly managed to get the club promoted in his first season, finishing third. Fleming spent just over two years at Gayfield before being sac

• John Smith (Caretaker)

  Took charge on Monday November 21st, 1983

  

  John Smith was the reserve team coach at Gayfield at the time of Ian Stewart's departure, and he took the reigns on a temporary basis before the appointed of George Fleming in December 1983.

• Ian Stewart

  Took charge on Tuesday January 22nd, 1980

  

  Ian Stewart was appointed as the successor to Bert Henderson, but having taken over with the club in the relegation zone he failed in his attempts to keep us up. Stewart had two spells in his playing days at Gayfield, as well as turning out for Montr

• Charlie Dunn (Caretaker)

  Took charge on Saturday January 19th, 1980

  

  Dunn, who played for the club between 1959 and 1961, was the reserve team coach who took charge of a Second Division match against Clydebank in January 1980, after Albert Henderson had left the club.

• Albert Henderson

  Took charge on Monday October 1st, 1962

  

  Albert Henderson’s amazing 17 year 4 month reign as Arbroath boss, between October 1962 and January 1980, made him one of the longest serving and most popular managers in British football history.His record at Gayfield was without doubt quite

• John Prentice

  Took charge on Tuesday April 19th, 1960

  

  When the club decided it was time to appoint a full time manager again, former Hearts, Rangers, Falkirk and Dumbarton wing half was appointed 2 games before the end of the 1959-1960 season. In his two seasons at Gayfield, Prentice managed a 12th plac

• Chris Anderson

  Took charge on Sunday March 24th, 1957

  

  After helping previous manager Tommy Gray in a scouting role, former club captain Chris Anderson was kept on to help the committee with team selection, with Chairman Hugh Nelson quoting in the Guide after Gray left as saying "nothing will be done me

• Tommy Gray

  Took charge on Wednesday June 1st, 1955

  

  Arbroath didn't replace Alec Cheyne, who was full time, but instead asked long serving centre half and captain Tommy Gray to pick future teams in a part time capacity with a Wilfred Forrester acting as secretary.Gray was assisted by former cl

• Alec Cheyne

  Took charge on Sunday May 8th, 1949

  

  Alec Cheyne was brought to the club in May 1949 after Arch Anderson's move to Ayr United, having had a fairly illustrious playing career at Aberdeen, Chelsea, and Nîmes (where he was one of the first Scottish players to play abroad) as well as being

• Selection Committee

  Took charge on Saturday April 23rd, 1949

  

  In the early years of the club, the committee mebers picked the team, with the match secretary being nominally in control. In 1903 Bob McGlashan replaced Richard David as match secretary with increased responsibility for matchday selections before g

• Archie Anderson

  Took charge on Tuesday April 9th, 1946

  

  After 14 years as secretary at Blantyre Victoria, Archie Anderson was the man faced with succeeding Bob McGlashan, and he spent over 3 years at the helm, including our our Scottish Cup Semi Final appearance against Aberdeen in 1947.After rumours circ

• Bob McGlashan

  Took charge on Wednesday June 8th, 1927

  

  Few people can claim to have enjoyed as long and active an association with Arbroath Football Club as Bob McGlashan. The locally born man joined the club as a player in 1895 and subsequently filled the role of secretary and manager for a continuous p

• Selection Committee

  Took charge on Monday July 29th, 1878

  

  In the early years of the club, the committee mebers picked the team, with the match secretary being nominally in control. In 1903 Bob McGlashan replaced Richard David as match secretary with increased responsibility for matchday selections before g