Personal information | |||
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Full name | James Martin Quinn | ||
Date of birth | 18 November 1959 | ||
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.