Neil MacFarlane (footballer)

Neil MacFarlane
MacFarlane outside Palmerston Park, Dumfries in 2008
Personal information
Full name Neil MacFarlane[1]
Date of birth (1977-10-10) 10 October 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth Dunoon, Scotland
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[2]
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
Brentford B (head coach)
Scotland U19 (head coach)
Youth career
0000–1999 Glasgow Amateurs U21
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2000 Queen's Park 36 (0)
2000–2001 Kilmarnock 0 (0)
2000–2001Queen's Park (loan) 8 (0)
2001Clyde (loan) 7 (0)
2001–2002 Airdrieonians 28 (3)
2002–2006 Heart of Midlothian 73 (0)
2006 Aberdeen 6 (0)
2006–2007 Gretna 5 (0)
2007–2009 Queen of the South 61 (1)
2009–2010 Greenock Morton 16 (0)
2010 Airdrie United 1 (0)
2011 Annan Athletic 15 (1)
Total 256 (5)
Managerial career
2015 Coventry City (caretaker)
2018–2019 Kidderminster Harriers
2019– Brentford B
2024– Scotland U19
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Neil MacFarlane (born 10 October 1977) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player, who is head coach of Brentford B and Scotland U19. MacFarlane played as a defensive midfielder for a number of clubs at all four levels of the Scottish league system. After his retirement as a player in 2011, he became a coach and was appointed to his first managerial role at English non-League club Kidderminster Harriers in 2018. One year later, he was appointed head coach of Brentford B.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Soccerway was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Neil MacFarlane at WorldFootball.net