Grant McCann
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Grant Samuel McCann | ||
| Date of birth | 15 April 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Peterborough United (Manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1995–1996 | Distillery | ||
| 1996–1998 | West Ham United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2003 | West Ham United | 4 | (0) |
| 1999 | → Livingston (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2000 | → Notts County (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2000–2001 | → Cheltenham Town (loan) | 30 | (3) |
| 2002 | → Cheltenham Town (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| 2003–2007 | Cheltenham Town | 158 | (31) |
| 2006–2007 | → Barnsley (loan) | 7 | (1) |
| 2007–2008 | Barnsley | 34 | (3) |
| 2008–2010 | Scunthorpe United | 102 | (18) |
| 2010–2015 | Peterborough United | 128 | (29) |
| 2015 | Linfield | 5 | (1) |
| Total | 482 | (86) | |
| National team | |||
| 2000–2001 | Northern Ireland U21 | 11 | (3) |
| 2001–2012 | Northern Ireland | 40 | (4) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2015 | Peterborough United (caretaker) | ||
| 2016– | Peterborough United | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Grant Samuel McCann (born 15 April 1980) is a Northern Irish former international footballer and current manager at Peterborough United. Born in Belfast, McCann played in the Distillery youth system from 1995 until signing for the West Ham United Academy of Football in 1996, where he started his professional career. He made his debut on 19 May 2001 in a 2–1 away defeat to Middlesbrough. McCann also won 39 caps for Northern Ireland after making his senior debut against Malta in 2001, with the last of his 39 caps won in a 6–0 friendly defeat against the Netherlands in June 2012.
Finding it hard to break into the West Ham first team McCann had loan spells at Livingston and Notts County before moving to Cheltenham Town, in another loan deal, in 2000.
After another loan deal took him back to Cheltenham in 2002, the move was made permanent during the January 2003 transfer window when he moved from West Ham for £50,000, a record transfer fee for Cheltenham Town. McCann went on to make 155 league appearances for the Gloucestershire club. He had made only four substitute appearances for The Hammers.
He joined Barnsley on loan deadline day, 23 November 2006, in a contract that expired on 1 January 2007. On his debut against Ipswich Town he scored a 92nd-minute winner in Simon Davey's first ever game as caretaker boss. The two clubs agreed a fee of £100,000 and McCann moved to Barnsley permanently on 2 January 2007. At the time this was a record fee for an outbound player from Cheltenham.
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