Scot Gemmill

This article is about the former Nottingham Forest and Scotland player. For the former St. Mirren and Clyde player, see Scott Gemmill.

Scot Gemmill

Personal information
Full name	Scotland 'Scot' Gemmill
Date of birth	(1971-01-02) 2 January 1971
Place of birth	Paisley, Scotland
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Nottingham Forest
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1990–1999	Nottingham Forest	245	(21)
1999–2004	Everton	97	(5)
2004	Preston North End	7	(1)
2004–2006	Leicester City	17	(0)
2006	Oxford United	1	(0)
2006–2007	New Zealand Knights	20	(0)
Total		387	(27)
International career
1995–2003	Scotland	26	(1)
Managerial career
2014-	Scotland U17
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 September 2009

Scotland 'Scot' Gemmill (born 2 January 1971) is a former Scottish footballer and a UEFA A Licensed Coach. He is currently the manager of the Scotland Under 17 Team. He played as a midfielder, most recently for the New Zealand Knights. He is the son of former Scottish international footballer Archie Gemmill, and was born in Paisley.

Domestic career

He started his career at Nottingham Forest as an apprentice on leaving school in the summer of 1987 and two years later he was given a professional contract by manager Brian Clough, who then gave him his first team debut on 30 March 1991 in a 3–1 defeat by Wimbledon at Plough Lane.

Gemmill established himself as a regular player in 1991–92, when he scored eight goals in 39 league games and also helped Forest win the ZDS Cup as well as finish runners-up in the Football League Cup. He remained a regular first team player until he was sold to Everton for £250,000 on 25 March 1999. During his 12 years at the City Ground he was involved in two promotion winning teams (1994 and 1998), three relegated teams (1993, 1997 and 1999), oversaw a third-place finish in 1995, a run to the quarter finals of the UEFA Cup in 1996, and played under five different managers.

By the end of the 2002–03 season, he had played 97 Premier League games for Everton but his first team chances had become increasingly limited since David Moyes replaced Walter Smith as manager in March 2002. He did not make a single league appearances for the Toffees in the 2003–04 season, during which he spent seven games on loan at Preston North End and scored once against Bradford, and at the start of 2004–05 he ended more than five years at Goodison Park when he signed for Leicester City on a free transfer. He played 17 games in two years at the Walkers Stadium before a one-game spell at Oxford United, before he finished his career with a one-year spell at the New Zealand Knights.

International career

Gemmill was part of the Scotland squads for the 1996 European Championships and 1998 World Cup but failed to make an appearance in either, a situation he described for the latter as "bittersweet" and "heartbreaking".

He won 26 caps for Scotland and scored one goal, against Hong Kong in a Reunification Cup match in 2002. Gemmill played his last game for Scotland in April 2003, in a 2–0 home friendly defeat to Austria, as a half-time substitute.

Coaching career

First steps in to coaching were as a player coach under Jim Smith at Oxford United [2006] He became player coach at the New Zealand Knights [2006] in the Australian Hyundai A-League. He is now working with Billy Stark coaching the Scotland Under 19 National Team. He is currently enrolled on the highly regarded League Managers Applied Management for Football Course.

In March 2014, he was appointed as manager/coach of the Scotland U17 team for the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship.

Honours

Nottingham Forest

• Full Members Cup winners: 1992

Football League Champions – 1997/98

External links

• Official profile from Knights FC
• Scot Gemmill career statistics at Soccerbase