Ian Dobson
Personal information
Full name Ian Dobson
Date of birth (1957-10-03) 3 October 1957
Place of birth Hull, England
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Hull City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1975–1980 Hull City 92 (5)
1980–1982 Hereford United 41 (5)
1982–1983 Croydon City Arrows 40 (7)
1984–1987 Preston Makedonia 58 (4)
1987–1988 Melbourne Croatia 41 (2)
1989–1991 Croydon City Arrows 56 (5)
1993 Knox City 17 (0)
Total 345 (28)
Managerial career
1989–1991 Croydon City Arrows
1991–1993 Preston Makedonia
1993–1995 Altona Magic
1995–1997 Melbourne Knights
1997–1998 Altona Magic
1999–2003 Green Gully
2003–2004 Melbourne Knights
2005 Green Gully
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ian Dobson (born 3 October 1957) is a former English footballer who has won the Victorian Premier League Coach of the Year Award twice. Currently, Dobson is Director of Coaching at Green Gully Soccer Club. Dobson first arrived in Australia in 1982 and played for the Croydon City Arrows in the State League before being snapped up by National League side Preston Makedonia. Coincidentally Dobson's first coaching role came in 1989 with the Croydon City Arrows in a career which would span three decades to include a National Soccer League Championship with the Melbourne Knights, a National Soccer League Cup, also with the Melbourne Knights, two Victorian Premier League titles with Altona Magic (1995, 1997) and six Victorian Premier League titles with Green Gully.

Honours

As coach;

  • National Soccer League (Australia) Champion 1995/96(Melbourne Knights)
  • National Soccer League Cup (Australia) Champion 1996 (Melbourne Knights)
  • Victorian Premier League (State League) Champion 1995, 1997 -(Altona Magic

1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011 (Green Gully Cavaliers)

  • Dockerty Cup Winners 2004 (Green Gully Cavaliers)
  • Victorian Premier League Coach of the Year
  • 1995 - Ian Dobson (Altona Magic)
  • 1999 - Ian Dobson (Green Gully)

[1] [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Green Gully Website News". Green Gully FC. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  2. ↑ Markian Jaworsky. "Green Gully FC". Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2010.


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