Ian McDonald (footballer, born 1953)

For other people with similar names, see Ian McDonald (disambiguation).

Ian McDonald
Personal information
Full name	Ian Clifford McDonald
Date of birth	(1953-05-10) 10 May 1953
Place of birth	Barrow-in-Furness, England
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1971–1973	Barrow	36	(2)
1973–1974	Workington	42	(4)
1974–1975	Liverpool	0	(0)
1975	Colchester United	5	(2)
1975–1977	Mansfield Town	56	(4)
1977–1981	York City	175	(29)
1981–1988	Aldershot	340	(50)
Teams managed
1991–1992	Aldershot (caretaker)
2013–2014	Workington
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Ian Clifford McDonald (born 10 May 1953) is an English former footballer and manager.

Career

Born in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, McDonald began his career with his hometown club Barrow before joining Workington. A move to Liverpool followed but he did not break into the first team, and was loaned to Colchester United before joining Mansfield Town in July 1975, with whom he won the Third Division title in 1976-77.

He moved to York City where he became a regular in midfield before joining Aldershot in November 1981, in exchange for Malcolm Crosby. At Aldershot he gained renown as a skilful midfielder and captaining the side to promotion to the Third Division under Len Walker in 1987.^[1] After leaving League football in 1989 to join Farnborough Town, he returned to Aldershot as caretaker manager following the resignation of Brian Talbot in November 1991.

However, the Hampshire club was now deep in debt and struggling back in the Fourth Division, having narrowly avoided going out of business the previous year. Staff wages regularly went unpaid, and many players moved elsewhere just to seek a guaranteed wage. McDonald often had to resort to recruiting amateur footballers just to be able to field a full side.

McDonald stayed with Aldershot until the club finally went out of business and left the Football League on 25 March 1992. His assistant Steve Wignall was appointed manager of the new Aldershot Town club which was formed several weeks later, and that summer McDonald made his own football comeback as a reserve team coach at Millwall. Later in 1992, McDonald had his own testimonial with the new Aldershot side at the Recreation Ground against Southampton. He now works part-time in schools support in the Barrow-in-Furness area.^[2]

On the 16th December 2013, McDonald returned to football management when he was appointed manager of Workington.^[3] The club he first played for over forty years earlier.

Honours

Club

Mansfield Town^[4]

Football League Third Division Winner (1): 1976–77

Aldershot^[5]

Football League Fourth Division Playoff Winner (1): 1986–87

Individual

York City Clubman of the Year (1): 1979–80

References

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↑ http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/sport/reds/workington-reds-appoint-new-management-team-1.1105218
↑ "Tier Three (League One) Honours". Coludaybyday.co.uk.
↑ "Division Two (League One) Play-Off Finalists". Coludaybyday.co.uk.

External links

Ian McDonald stats at Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database

York City F.C. – Clubman of the Year

1973–74: Burrows
1974–75: Topping
1975–76: Cave
1976–77: Pollard
1977–78: Staniforth
1978–79: Staniforth
1979–80: McDonald
1980–81: Blackburn
1981–82: Walwyn
1982–83: Hood
1983–84: MacPhail
1984–85: MacPhail
1985–86: Mills
1986–87: Walwyn
1987–88: Banton
1988–89: Helliwell
1989–90: Marples
1990–91: Tutill
1991–92: McCarthy
1992–93: Stancliffe
1993–94: Barnes
1994–95: McCarthy
1995–96: McMillan
1996–97: Barras
1997–98: Bushell
1998–99: Jones
1999–2000: Jones
2000–01: Fettis
2001–02: Fettis
2002–03: Brass
2003–04: Dunning
2004–05: Merris
2005–06: Donaldson
2006–07: Bishop
2007–08: McGurk
2008–09: Parslow
2009–10: Ingham
2010–11: Parslow
2011–12: Kerr
2012–13: Parslow
2013–14: Oyebanjo
2014–15: Lowe
2015–16: Winfield

Managerial positions

Aldershot F.C. – managers

Seed (1927–1937) McCracken (1937–1950) Clark (1950–1955) Evans (1955–1959) Smith (1959–1967) McAnearney (1967–1968) Conner^c (1968) Smith^c (1968–1969) Melia (1969–1972) Huxford^c (1972) McAnearney (1972–1981) Walker (1981–1984) Harris (1984–1985) Walker (1985–1991) Talbot (1991) McDonald^c (1991–1992) (c) = caretaker manager

Workington A.F.C. – managers

Flatley (1950–52)
Smith (1952–53)
Jones^c (1953–54)
Shankly (1954–55)
Low (1956–57)
Jones^c (1957)
Harvey (1957–62)
Furphy (1962–64)
Burkinshaw (1964–65)
Aitken (1965)
Ainsley (1965–66)
Leivers (1966–67)
Brown (1967)
Upton (1967–68)
Doyle (1968–71)
Aitken (1971–74)
Wood (74)
Meldrum (1974–75)
Waugh (1975)
McNamee (1975)
Ashman (1975–77)
Meldrum (1977)
Livesey (1977)
Wilson (1977–78)
Johnstone (1978)
Foley (1978–79)
Endean (1979–80)
Gallagher (1980–81)
Wojciechowicz (1981–84)
Taylor (1984–85)
Harrison (1985–86)
Hodgson (1986–87)
Oliver^c (1987)
Meldrum (1987–88)
Hall (1988)
Irving^c (1988)
Heaton (1988–89)
Walsh^c (1989)
O'Neill (1989–91)
Harris (1991–92)
Hather^c (1992)
Norrie (1992)
Cook (1992–94)
Sherwood^c (1994)
Harrison (1995–97)
Hunton (1997)
Clinton (1997–98)
Cunningham^c (1998)
Hampton (1998–2001)
Mason^c (2001)
Cassidy (2001–07)
Edmondson (2007–13)
McDonald (2013–14)
Skelton (2014–15)
Townsley (2015–)

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