From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Colin Calderwood (born 20 January 1965, in Stranraer, Scotland) is a former football player and currently manager of Nottingham Forest, having been appointed in May 2006.

Calderwood started his career in the lower reaches of the English Divisions. He played for Mansfield Town and Swindon Town helping Swindon to a 4-3 playoff win over Leicester in 1993 which saw them promoted to the Premiership.

He moved on to Tottenham Hotspur during the summer of 1993 where he had five successful years and played with a succession of defenders including Gary Mabbutt and Ramon Vega. At Tottenham he gained most of his Scotland caps. He played for his country at Euro 96 and World Cup 1998. He seemed to be one of manager Craig Brown's favourite players but was often made the scapegoat for poor results by Scotland fans.

He moved on briefly to Aston Villa and then had further brief spells with Nottingham Forest and Notts County on his way to coaching. He became reserve-manager at Tottenham before becoming manager of Northampton Town. Calderwood took Northampton to promotion in 2006 finishing second in League Two and was at the helm when they set a new club record for the number of clean sheets held by the club (25). He has been regarded as a successful up-and-coming manager and was appointed by Nottingham Forest as the replacement for Gary Megson in May 2006. He had an unbeaten league start to his Forest campaign and won the Manager Of The Month award for August 2006. His first defeat came in his eighth game in charge. He led Forest to top of League One for the first four months of the season but in the last few weeks, Forest had fallen down to 4th on GD to second player Oldham Athletic in January but they are now third again and their game in hand over leaders Scunthorpe United was wasted after a 1-0 home defeat to Doncaster Rovers. Scunthorpe, who are now 10 points clear of Forest, with Bristol City beneath them in second, play Forest on March 10th 2007, so their lead could be cut short to seven points. Calderwood has signed Luke Chambers and David Prutton on a permanent contract and loan respectively in order to reignite Forest's promotion challenge.

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Northampton Town		October 9, 2003	May 29, 2006	154	74	40	40	48.05
Nottingham Forest		May 30, 2006	Present	44	23	10	11	52.27

• Colin Calderwood career stats at Soccerbase
• Colin Calderwood management career stats at Soccerbase

	Scotland squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 Leighton | 2 McNamara | 3 Boyd | 4 Calderwood | 5 Hendry | 6 T. McKinlay | 7 Gallacher | 8 Burley | 9 Durie | 10 Jackson | 11 Collins | 12 Sullivan | 13 Donnelly | 14 Lambert | 15 Gemmill | 16 Weir | 17 B. McKinlay | 18 Elliott | 19 Whyte | 20 Booth | 21 Gould | 22 Dailly | Coach: Brown