John Ritchie (Scottish footballer)

Infobox Football biography
playername = John Ritchie


fullname = John Brough Ritchie
dateofbirth = birth date|1947|6|12|df=y
cityofbirth = Auchterderran
countryofbirth = Scotland
height =
nickname =
position = Goalkeeper
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1964–1967
1967–1971
1971–1974
1974–1975
1975–1981
clubs = Cowdenbeath
Brechin City
Bradford City
Dundee United
Brechin City
Career
caps(goals) = 099 (0)
128 (0)
064 (0)
000 (0)
159 (0)
450 (0)
manageryears = 0000–1993
managerclubs = Brechin City

John Brough Ritchie (born 12 July 1947 in Auchterderran) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Career

Ritchie began his career in the mid 1960s with Cowdenbeath and went on to play over 100 matches for the Central Park side before moving to Brechin City in 1967. After a similar length of time at Glebe Park, Ritchie moved south in the early 1970s to English side Bradford City, where he averaged around 20 league matches in each of his three seasons. A return to Scotland in 1974 with Dundee United brought no games and Ritchie returned to Brechin shortly afterwards, completing another six years before his retirement in 1981. Overall, Ritchie played in exactly 450 league matches.

Upon retiring, Ritchie stayed with Brechin as a member of the coaching staff, assisting Ian Fleming when the club won Scottish Division Two in the early 1980s and becoming manager later in the same decade. Winning Division Two in the 1989–90 season, Ritchie left in 1993 to take up a coaching position with Hibernian and moved to a similar role with Dunfermline Athletic in 1999. Made redundant from East End Park in April 2004, [cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/d/dunfermline_athletic/3610837.stm|title=Youth boss departs Pars|date=2004-04-08|publisher=BBC Sport website|accessdate=2008-05-30] and later linked with the vacant Arbroath job, [cite news|url=http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2004/08/31/sportstory6282633t0.asp|title=Lichties committee discuss new manager|date=2004-08-31|publisher=The Courier|accessdate=2008-05-30] Ritchie returned briefly to Glebe Park in 2004–05 in a coaching capacity. [cite news|url=http://www.brechinadvertiser.co.uk/2738/City-battle-the-elements.1142472.jp|title=City battle the elements|date=2005-01-06|publisher=Brechin Advertiser|accessdate=2008-05-30] He is currently a coach with Scottish Junior club, Thornton Hibs.huh

Honours

Brechin City

As a manager:
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References

External links

* [http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player/johnritchie1.htm Independent profile]