Graham Alexander
Alexander as manager of Fleetwood Town in 2013
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Graham Alexander | ||
| Date of birth | 10 October 1971 | ||
| Place of birth | Coventry, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Right back / Defensive midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Scunthorpe United (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1988–1990 | Scunthorpe United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1990–1995 | Scunthorpe United | 159 | (18) |
| 1995–1999 | Luton Town | 152 | (15) |
| 1999–2007 | Preston North End | 354 | (52) |
| 2007–2011 | Burnley | 154 | (20) |
| 2011–2012 | Preston North End | 18 | (2) |
| Total | 837 | (107) | |
| National team | |||
| 2002–2009 | Scotland | 40 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2011–2012 | Preston North End (caretaker) | ||
| 2012–2015 | Fleetwood Town | ||
| 2016– | Scunthorpe United | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Graham Alexander (born 10 October 1971) is a former professional footballer. He is the manager of League One club Scunthorpe United.
For most of his career, Coventry-born Alexander played as a specialist at right back, but was also deployed in defensive midfield, as he did early on in his career with Scunthorpe. He is the fourth oldest player to score in Premier League history. He was also a penalty kick specialist. On 16 April 2011, in Burnley's win over Swansea City in a Championship match, Alexander became only the second outfield player in English football history to have made 1,000 professional appearances, after Tony Ford. He is fifth on the list of footballers in England and Scotland by number of league appearances.
Alexander was appointed manager of Fleetwood Town in December 2012. He won the 2013–14 League Two playoffs and promotion to League One, but was sacked by Fleetwood in September 2015. In March 2016, he was appointed the manager of Scunthorpe United.
Alexander began his career in the late 1980s as a youth player with Scunthorpe United. He made his first-team debut on 27 April 1991, coming on as a substitute for Mark Hine, and signed his first professional contract the same year. In 1991–92, he established himself as a member of Scunthorpe's first team, usually playing at right back.
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