Ian Miller (footballer, born 1955)

Ian Miller
Personal information
Full name Ian Miller[1]
Date of birth (1955-05-13) 13 May 1955 (age 69)[2]
Place of birth Perth, Scotland
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[3]
Position(s) Right winger
Youth career
Jeanfield Swifts
Bury
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1973–1975 Bury 15 (0)
1975 Nottingham Forest 0 (0)
1975–1978 Doncaster Rovers 124 (14)
1978–1981 Swindon Town 127 (9)
1981–1989 Blackburn Rovers 268 (16)
1989–1990 Port Vale 21 (1)
1990–1991 Scunthorpe United 12 (0)
1992 Stafford Rangers
Total 567+ (40+)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ian Miller (born 13 May 1955) is a Scottish former footballer who played his football in England as a winger. He made 660 league and cup appearances in the English Football League over an eighteen-year professional career, scoring 48 goals.

He began his career at Bury, helping the club to win promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1973–74. He was then at Nottingham Forest but did not feature for the first team before transferring to Doncaster Rovers in 1975. Voted onto the Fourth Division PFA Team of the Year in 1975–76, 1976–77 and 1977–78, he moved on to Swindon Town in 1978. He switched to Blackburn Rovers in 1981 and spent the next eight years with the club, lifting the Full Members Cup in 1987. He then had brief spells with Port Vale and Scunthorpe United before ending his career with non-League Stafford Rangers. He went into coaching straight after his retirement as a player and worked behind the scenes at a wide variety of clubs in the Football League.

  1. ^ "Ian Miller". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference spr was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Jackman, Mike (1994). Blackburn Rovers : the official encyclopaedia. Derby: Breedon. p. 163. Retrieved 14 April 2020.