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Alan Combe

Alan Combe

Scottish footballer (born 1974)

Alan Combe (born 3 April 1974) is a Scottish football coach and former player who is goalkeeping coach for Dundee. He played as a goalkeeper for Cowdenbeath, St Mirren, Dundee United, Bradford City and Kilmarnock. He has previously worked as a goalkeeping coach for Alloa Athletic, Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian and Cove Rangers.

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Club career

Combe was born in Edinburgh. He was Kilmarnock's regular goalkeeper until he suffered a serious hip injury early in the 2009–10 season.[2] He was released by Kilmarnock on 31 January 2011.[3]

Combe joined Alloa Athletic in August 2011 as a goalkeeping coach.[4] In November 2011, Combe played for Clyde against Annan Athletic and kept a clean sheet.[5] He went on trial with Hamilton Academical in December 2011, making his debut on 27 December 2011.[6]

In March 2012, Combe signed a deal with Greenock Morton[7] that was due to run until the end of the 2012–13 season. He left Morton in September 2012 to Join Hearts, primarily as a goalkeeping coach.[8] Combe retained his playing registration during spells with Hearts and Hibernian, but did not appear in a first team match for either club.

International career

Combe was named in the senior Scotland squad on a few occasions but was not capped. Combe did however appear for the Scotland B team in 2005, playing in the second half of a 2–0 victory against Poland B.

Coaching career

While playing for Morton, Combe worked as a goalkeeping coach at Alloa Athletic.[9] Combe was released from his contract with Morton in 2012 to become a goalkeeping coach at Hearts, although he retained his playing registration in case of emergency.[8][10] After being released by Hearts in 2014, in July Combe joined boyhood club Hibernian as a player-coach.[11] He left Hibernian during the 2020 close season.[12] Combe joined Cove Rangers as a goalkeeping coach in September 2020.[13] In July 2021, Combe was announced as the new goalkeeping coach for Dundee, following the departure of Bobby Geddes.[14]

Personal life

Combe is the great nephew of Bobby Combe, who played for Hibs and Scotland in the 1940s and 1950s.[15]

Career statistics

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Notes

  1. Includes Scottish Cup, FA Cup
  2. Includes Scottish League Cup, Football League Cup

References

  1. [1]
    "Alan Combe". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Killie to lose Combe for 10 weeks". BBC Sport. BBC. 1 September 2009. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
  3. [3]
    "Danny Invincibile & Alan Combe released by Kilmarnock". BBC Sport. BBC. 31 January 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
  4. [4]
    "Alan Combe joins Alloa as goalkeeping coach". BBC Sport. BBC. 18 August 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
  5. [5]
    "Clyde 0–0 Annan Athletic". BBC. 12 November 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
  6. [6]
    "Accies 0 Livingston 1". Hamilton Academical F.C. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012.
  7. [7]
    "New signing". Greenock Morton F.C. 13 February 2012. Archived from the original on 24 July 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  8. [8]
    "Hearts: Alan Combe becomes keeper coach after Morton exit". BBC Sport. 3 September 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  9. [9]
    Mitchell, Jonathan (28 May 2012). "Ton keeper to continue coaching". Greenock Telegraph. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  10. [10]
    "Player News – Alan Combe". Greenock Morton F.C. 1 September 2012. Archived from the original on 24 July 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  11. [11]
    "Hibernian bring in Andy Holden as new assistant coach". BBC Sport. BBC.
  12. [12]
    Delaney, James (15 June 2020). "Hibs hoping to add new goalkeeping coach as Jack Ross looks to recruit former member of Sunderland backroom staff". Edinburgh Live. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  13. [13]
    Fowler, Craig (21 September 2020). "Former Hibs coach Alan Combe gets new role with Cove Rangers". Edinburgh Evening News. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  14. [14]
    "Alan Combe joins coaching staff". dundeefc.co.uk. 2 July 2021. Archived from the original on 2 July 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  15. [15]
    "ALAN COMBE ON HIS GREAT UNCLE AND THE SCOTTISH CUP WIN". Hibernian FC. 29 January 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2018.

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