Paul Hartley

Paul Hartley

Hartley playing for Bristol City
Personal information
Full name	Paul James Hartley
Date of birth	(1976-10-19) 19 October 1976 (age 40)
Place of birth	Hamilton, Scotland
Height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Playing position	Midfielder
Youth career
0000–1993	Hibernian
1993–1994	Hamilton Academical
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1994–1996	Hamilton Academical	47	(11)
1996–1997	Millwall	44	(4)
1997–1998	Raith Rovers	50	(13)
1998–2000	Hibernian	36	(6)
1999–2000	→ Greenock Morton (loan)	3	(1)
2000–2003	St Johnstone	87	(12)
2003–2007	Heart of Midlothian	118	(31)
2007–2009	Celtic	62	(3)
2009–2010	Bristol City	40	(5)
2010–2011	Aberdeen	24	(4)
Total		511	(90)
National team
1997	Scotland U21	1	(0)
2004	Scotland B	1	(0)
2005–2010	Scotland	25	(1)
Teams managed
2011–2014	Alloa Athletic
2014–2017	Dundee
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Paul James Hartley (born 19 October 1976) is a Scottish football manager and former player, who was most recently the manager of Dundee.

As a player, Hartley won trophies with both Hearts and Celtic, and earned 25 caps for the Scottish national team.

As a manager, he also gained success, firstly taking Alloa Athletic from the bottom tier to the second tier in successive seasons as well as taking Dundee back into the Scottish top flight. In all achieving three successive promotions in his first three seasons in management.

Hartley was with Hibernian on an 'S' form; the club offered a six-month professional contract, which he rejected. Soon afterwards, Hartley started his senior career at Hamilton Academical, where he spent two seasons. Millwall paid £380,000 to gain his services in July 1996 and he spent one season there, concurrently playing for the Scotland U21 team. He returned to Scotland in 1997, when he joined Raith Rovers for £150,000, before joining Hibernian in 1998, whom he helped win the First Division in 1998–99.

In season 1999–2000, he spent a short spell on loan at Greenock Morton.

St Johnstone manager Sandy Clark, who had previously managed Hartley at Hamilton, signed Hartley for a £200,000 fee in 2000.Billy Stark, who succeeded Clark in 2001, started using Hartley as a central attacking midfielder during the 2001–02 season. This change of position from Hartley's previous role as a right winger, coincided with a significant upturn in his performances, but it was not enough to prevent St Johnstone's relegation to the First Division. Hartley's personal success continued as he was nominated for the SPFA First Division player of the year award in 2003, but his team failed to gain promotion back to the SPL in 2003.