Ian Porterfield
Porterfield in the 1973 Sunderland squad
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Porterfield | ||
| Date of birth | 11 February 1946 | ||
| Place of birth | Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 11 September 2007 (aged 61) | ||
| Place of death | Surrey, England | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Lochore Welfare | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1964 | Cowdenbeath (trial) | 1 | (0) |
| 1964–1967 | Raith Rovers | 117 | (17) |
| 1967–1977 | Sunderland | 230 | (17) |
| 1976 | → Reading (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 1977–1979 | Sheffield Wednesday | 106 | (3) |
| Total | 459 | (37) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1979–1981 | Rotherham United | ||
| 1981–1986 | Sheffield United | ||
| 1986–1988 | Aberdeen | ||
| 1989–1991 | Reading | ||
| 1991–1993 | Chelsea | ||
| 1993–1994 | Zambia | ||
| 1996–1997 | Zimbabwe | ||
| 1997 | Oman | ||
| 2000–2001 | Trinidad and Tobago | ||
| 2001–2002 | Kumasi Asante Kotoko | ||
| 2003–2006 | Busan I'Park | ||
| 2006–2007 | Armenia | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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John "Ian" Porterfield (11 February 1946 – 11 September 2007) was a Scottish professional footballer, and an experienced football coach who worked at both club and international level for almost 30 years. At the time of his death, he was the coach of the Armenian national team.
As a player, Porterfield scored the only goal of the 1973 FA Cup Final as Sunderland memorably overcame the odds to beat Leeds United. As a manager, he has the dubious honour of being the very first manager to be sacked in the FA Premier League era, when he was fired by Chelsea. He replaced Alex Ferguson as manager of Aberdeen in 1986.
Born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, at the age of 15 Porterfield had a trial for Leeds United but returned homesick to Scotland, where he joined Raith Rovers. Moving south of the border in 1967 he signed for Sunderland where he experienced his finest moment as a player when he scored the winner at Wembley in the 1973 FA Cup final, giving them a shock victory over Leeds United, who were among the finest club sides in Europe at that time. He stayed at Sunderland for ten years, with a brief loan spell at Reading in 1976, before moving on to Sheffield Wednesday in July 1977, first as a player and then as player-coach.
Upon retirement as a player he went on to manage Rotherham United winning the Third Division Championship before joining Sheffield United on 6 June 1981. He was given the task of getting the Blades, newly relegated to the Fourth Division back into the First Division in five seasons with a long-term contract exceeding that particular time-frame.
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