Jimmy Quinn (footballer, born 1959)

Jimmy Quinn
Personal information
Full name James Martin Quinn
Date of birth (1959-11-18) 18 November 1959 (age 65)
Place of birth Belfast, Northern Ireland
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1977–1978 Whitchurch Alport
1978–1980 Congleton Town
1980–1981 Oswestry Town
1981–1984 Swindon Town 49 (10)
1984–1986 Blackburn Rovers 71 (17)
1986–1988 Swindon Town 64 (30)
1988–1989 Leicester City 31 (6)
1989 Bradford City 35 (14)
1989–1991 West Ham United 47 (18)
1991–1992 AFC Bournemouth 43 (19)
1992–1997 Reading 182 (71)
1997–1998 Peterborough United 49 (25)
1999–2000 Swindon Town 7 (0)
2000 Northwich Victoria 7 (4)
2000 Hereford United 2 (0)
2000–2001 Highworth Town
2001 Hayes 11 (6)
2001–2003 Northwich Victoria 46 (8)
2003–2004 Shrewsbury Town 15 (4)
2005–2006 Nantwich Town
Total 659 (232)
International career
1985–1996 Northern Ireland 46 (12)
Managerial career
1994–1997 Reading
1998–2000 Swindon Town
2001–2003 Northwich Victoria
2003–2004 Shrewsbury Town
2005–2006 Egersunds IK
2006–2008 Cambridge United
2008 AFC Bournemouth
2011–2013 Nantwich Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

James Martin Quinn (born 18 November 1959) is a Northern Irish former footballer and manager.

Quinn was capped 46 times for his country and is one of Northern Ireland's top goalscorers, scoring twelve goals at senior level. He also enjoyed a successful club career, scoring 210 goals in the Football League, and has enjoyed some success as a manager, including winning promotion to the Football League with Shrewsbury Town in 2004 and taking Reading to the brink of the Premier League in 1995. He currently lives in Winsford, Cheshire with his youngest son Alex who is 15 and goes to the Winsford Academy.

  1. ^ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Jimmy Quinn (Player)". national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 8 September 2022.