Tommy Craig
Personal information
Full name	Thomas Craig
Date of birth	21 November 1950 (1950-11-21) (age 59)
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Charleroi (Coach)
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1967–1968 1968–1974 1974–1977 1977–1979 1979–1981 1981–1984 1984–1985	Aberdeen Sheffield Wednesday Newcastle United Aston Villa Swansea City Carlisle United Hibernian Total	045 0(8) 214 (38) 124 (22) 027 0(2) 052 0(9) 098 (10) 011 0(0) 571 (89)
National team
1976	Scotland	001 0(0)
Teams managed
2009–	Charleroi
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Thomas "Tommy" Craig (born 21 November 1950 in Glasgow) is a Scottish football coach and former player, who is currently the head coach of Belgian club Charleroi. Craig had an 18 year playing career as a midfielder, playing over 100 league games for English clubs Sheffield Wednesday and Newcastle United. Towards the end of his playing career he became a coach, and he has worked for clubs including Hibernian, Celtic, Aberdeen and Newcastle.

[edit] Playing career

Craig was a talented midfielder who started his playing career at Aberdeen. In 1969 Sheffield Wednesday paid £100,000 for his services, a club record transfer fee at the time, as well as a British record for a teenager. Craig was a favourite with the fans during his time at Hillsborough and was seen by many as the highlight of what was a poor Sheffield Wednesday team. Craig scored 37 league goals for Wednesday, including many from the penalty spot. During his time at the club, Wednesday were relegated from the top flight following Craig's first full season, and they continued to struggle in Division Two, finally being relegated again shortly after he left for Newcastle United in 1974.

After leaving Newcastle he went on to join Ron Saunders' Aston Villa, however, his relatively unsuccessful stay was short lived as Saunders was clearing the decks in order to turn Villa into the Championship and European Cup winning force of the early 1980s. He was capped once by Scotland, against Switzerland in 1976. He subsequently moved on to Swansea City, Carlisle United and Hibernian before becoming a coach.

[edit] Coaching

After retiring as a player, Craig was made assistant manager to John Blackley at Hibernian. He was then Billy McNeill's assistant manager at Celtic, where they won the championship in their centenary year. A spell at Aberdeen as assistant to Roy Aitken followed, before he took up the coaching role of Scotland's Under-21 team.

Craig spent time as a first team coach of Newcastle United, until he was released in September 2006.^[1] He was then chosen by John Collins to be his assistant at Hibernian. Following Collins' resignation, Craig acted as the caretaker manager for four games, but he left the club following the appointment of Mixu Paatelainen as manager.^[2] Craig joined Charleroi as assistant coach to John Collins in December 2008.^[3] On 20 November 2009, he was appointed as head coach of Charleroi.^[4] He signed a one year and a half contract.^[4]

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Newcastle Fans profile
• Tommy Craig profile at scottishfa.co.uk