Dave Bowman (footballer, born 1964)

Not to be confused with Dave Beaumont.

Dave Bowman

Personal information
Full name	David Bowman
Date of birth	(1964-03-10) 10 March 1964
Place of birth	Tunbridge Wells, England
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Position(s)	Midfielder, right-back
Team information
Current team	Dundee United (Development squad assistant manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1980–1984	Heart of Midlothian	116	(8)
1984–1986	Coventry City	40	(2)
1986–1998	Dundee United	336	(9)
1998–1999	Raith Rovers	23	(0)
1999–2000	Orient & Yee Hope Union		(1)
2000–2002	Forfar Athletic	36	(2)
Total		551	(21)
International career
1992–1993	Scotland	6	(0)
Managerial career
2007	Livingston (caretaker)
2015	Dundee United (caretaker)
Medal record Scotland UEFA European U-18 Championship Winner 1982 Finland Team Competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David Bowman (born 10 March 1964) is a Scottish football coach and former player. In a 12-year career with Dundee United he played in the 1987 UEFA Cup Final and won the 1993–94 Scottish Cup. At United he was also a three time Scottish Cup runner up.

He also played for Heart of Midlothian, Coventry City, Raith Rovers and Forfar Athletic as well as having a spell in Hong Kong with Yee Hope FC. He played six times for the Scotland national team and was a non-playing squad member at UEFA Euro 1992. Since 2007 he has worked as a community coach at Dundee United.

Early life

Dave Bowman was born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England on 10 March 1964. He is the son of Scottish footballer Andy Bowman, formerly of Chelsea and Heart of Midlothian (Hearts), who was playing for Tonbridge at the time of his son's birth. The family subsequently moved to Edinburgh, where Dave grew up. He played youth football for Salvesen Boys Club before signing for his father's former club, Hearts, in June 1980.

Club career

Bowman started his senior career with Hearts, making 116 league appearances before leaving in 1984. He moved to Coventry City for two seasons where he was joined by Jim McInally, signing from Nottingham Forest. They left together in 1986, joining Dundee United for a combined £140,000 transfer fee and reached the 1987 UEFA Cup Final in their first season there. En route United beat Barcelona home and away in the quarter-finals and then eliminated Borussia Mönchengladbach in the semi-finals. They lost 2–1 on aggregate in the final against IFK Göteborg.

Bowman and McInally played in three losing Dundee United Scottish Cup final teams. These were in 1987 to St Mirren, 1988 to Celtic and in the 1991 final to Motherwell in which Bowman scored. They collected winners' medals from the 1994 Scottish Cup Final against Rangers. Bowman is ranked tenth on United's all-time appearance list.

Bowman spent the latter part of his playing career at Raith Rovers, Hong Kong club Yee Hope and finally Forfar Athletic. While at Forfar he received a Scottish record seven-game suspension, imposed for swearing at the match officials.

International career

Bowman made six full international appearances for Scotland between March 1992 and September 1993. He was part of Scotland's UEFA Euro 1992 finals squad, but was not selected for any of his team's three games.

Coaching career

As Forfar were a part-time club, Bowman was able to join the coaching staff at Dundee United, where he continued to serve the club until he left following Craig Brewster's appointment as manager in 2006. After a brief spell as a pundit for BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound programme, he returned to coaching when old friend John Robertson invited him to be his assistant at Livingston. Following his spell in Livingston, Bowman moved to Dens Park to work alongside Gordon Wallace as youth coach. In October 2007, Bowman returned to Tannadice for a third time, accepting an invitation as community coach.

On 28 September 2015, Bowman took temporary charge of Dundee United's first-team squad in the wake of manager Jackie McNamara's departure from the club.

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National cup		League cup		Continental		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Heart of Midlothian	1980–81	Scottish Premier Division	18	1	–		4	1	–		22	2
	1981–82		16	1	2	0	5	0	–		23	1
	1982–83		39	5	4	0	9	2	–		52	7
	1983–84		33	0	1	0	7	0	–		41	0
	1984–85		11	1	–		4	0	2	0	17	1
	Total		117	8	7	0	29	3	2	0	155	11
Coventry City	1984–85	First Division	40	2							40	2
	1985–86
	Total		40	2					0	0	40	2
Dundee United	1986–87	Scottish Premier Division	28	0	2	0	1	0	6	0	37	0
	1987–88		39	1	8	0	2	0	3	0	52	1
	1988–89		28	1	3	1	4	0	4	0	39	2
	1989–90		24	1	5	0	1	0	4	1	34	2
	1990–91		20	1	4	1	1	0	2	0	27	2
	1991–92		40	3	2	0	3	0	–		45	3
	1992–93		24	0	1	0	–		–		25	0
	1993–94		35	2	6	0	4	0	2	0	47	2
	1994–95		31	0	4	1	2	0	1	0	38	1
	1995–96	Scottish First Division	17	0	1	0	1	0	–		19	0
	1996–97	Scottish Premier Division	28	0	1	0	2	0	–		31	0
	1997–98		19	0	1	0	4	0	4	0	28	0
	Total		333	9	38	3	25	0	26	1	422	13
Raith Rovers	1998–99	Scottish First Division	23	0	1	0	2	0	–		26	0
Orient and Yee Hope Union	1999–2000	Hong Kong First Division League	–		–		–		–		–
Forfar Athletic	2000–01	Scottish Second Division	23	2	1	0	1	0	–		25	2
	2001–02		12	0	–		1	0	–		13	0
	Total		35	2	1	0	2	0	0	0	38	2
Career total			551	21	47	3	58	3	28	1	684	28

Honours

Dundee United

• Scottish Cup: 1993–94
  • Runner-up 1986–87, 1987–88, 1990–91
• UEFA Cup: Runner-up 1986–87
• Scottish League Cup: Runner-up 1997–98

Scotland U-18

• UEFA Under-18 Championship: 1982

See also

• List of footballers in Scotland by number of league appearances (500+)
• List of Scotland international footballers born outside Scotland

External links

• Dave Bowman at Soccerbase
• Hearts career stats Archived 27 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine from London Hearts website