Dougie Wood (15 February 1940 – 3 June 2022) is a Scottish former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

, who played for eleven seasons with Derry City from 1961 to 1972 in the Irish League. He won six inter-league caps for the Irish League between 1964 and 1967, and won the

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in 1963/64, the Irish League championship and the Gold Cup in 1964/65. He was the

Ulster Footballer of the Year The Ulster Footballer of the Year is an association football player of the year award in Northern Ireland. One of two player of the year awards in Northern Ireland, the other is the Northern Ireland Football Writers' Association award. The Ulst ...

for the 1964/65 season. He also managed the club as player-manager between July 1971 and July 1972.

Early life

He attended

Musselburgh Grammar School Musselburgh Grammar School a state-funded secondary school in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. It serves as the main secondary school for Musselburgh and the surrounding areas of Wallyford and Whitecraig. The school dates back to the sixt ...

Career

Wood represented the

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in the summer of 1967. After

Shay Keogh Seamus "Shay" Keogh (6 September 1934 – 13 April 2020) was an Irish footballer who played as a centre half. He was part of the great Shamrock Rovers teams of the 1950s in a side, popularly known as Coad's Colts, that enjoyed many memorable da ...

resigned as

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manager in December 1973, Wood (along with Shay Noonan and Dick Giles) took over team affairs for the rest of the 1973/74 season. Dougi
died
peacefully at home, aged 82, on 3 June 2022.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, Dougie 1940 births Living people Scottish men's footballers NIFL Premiership players Ulster Footballers of the Year Derry City F.C. players Derry City F.C. managers Athlone Town A.F.C. players League of Ireland players Shamrock Rovers F.C. players Shamrock Rovers F.C. managers United Soccer Association players People educated at Musselburgh Grammar School Boston Shamrock Rovers players Expatriate association football managers in the Republic of Ireland Footballers from Musselburgh Men's association football wing halves Sunderland A.F.C. players Raith Rovers F.C. players Sligo Rovers F.C. players Linfield F.C. players Shelbourne F.C. players Scottish expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Scottish expatriate men's footballers Scottish football managers League of Ireland managers Men's association football player-managers 2022 deaths NIFL Premiership managers