 Adams as manager of Bradford City in 2021 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Derek Watt Adams | ||
| Date of birth | 25 June 1975 | ||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder[2] | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Morecambe (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1991–1992 | Aberdeen | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–1995 | Aberdeen | 0 | (0) |
| 1995–1996 | Burnley | 2 | (0) |
| 1996–1998 | Ross County | 72 | (41) |
| 1998–2004 | Motherwell | 159 | (18) |
| 1999–2000 | → Ayr United (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | Aberdeen | 20 | (4) |
| 2005–2006 | Livingston | 25 | (0) |
| 2006–2009 | Ross County | 36 | (4) |
| Total | 318 | (67) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2007–2010 | Ross County | ||
| 2011–2014 | Ross County | ||
| 2015–2019 | Plymouth Argyle | ||
| 2019–2021 | Morecambe | ||
| 2021–2022 | Bradford City | ||
| 2022–2023 | Morecambe | ||
| 2023–2024 | Ross County | ||
| 2024– | Morecambe | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Derek Watt Adams (born 25 June 1975) is a Scottish football manager and former player who is the current manager of EFL League Two club Morecambe. Adams played professionally for six clubs, including Ross County and Motherwell, where he made over 300 league appearances during his playing career and has managed over 635 games thus far, achieving four promotions.
Adams became manager of Ross County in 2007, winning promotion from the Scottish Second Division in his first season, before reaching the Scottish Cup Final two years later. He joined Hibernian as assistant manager in 2010 before returning to Ross County the following year, where he won the Scottish First Division and was voted PFA Scotland Manager of the Year for the 2011–12 season. Adams then took on the managerial role at Plymouth Argyle in 2015 and led them to promotion from League 2 in 2017. Having been sacked by Plymouth in April 2019,[3] he became manager of Morecambe in November.[4] He would guide the club to promotion to League One in 2021, before leaving to take over at Bradford; after being sacked by Bradford, he would return to Morecambe once again. He left Morecambe in November 2023 to return to Ross County, but he resigned from that position in February 2024.
- ^ "Derek Adams". 11v11.com. AFS Enterprises. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ "Derek Adams". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ "Plymouth Argyle have appointed former Ross County boss Derek Adams as their new manager". Argyle Media. Plymouth Argyle FC. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
- ^ "DEREK ADAMS NAMED AS NEW SHRIMPS MANAGER" – Morecambe F.C., 7 November 2019