Derek McInnes

Derek John McInnes (born 5 July 1971) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Scottish Premiership club Heart of Midlothian. In his playing career, his longest spells were with Greenock Morton, Rangers, West Bromwich Albion and Dundee United. He won two caps for the Scotland national team while with West Brom. McInnes became manager of St Johnstone, where he had been a player, in November 2007. He guided the club to promotion to the Scottish Premier League in 2009 and retained that status for two seasons. McInnes was appointed manager of Football League Championship club Bristol City in October 2011. Despite avoiding relegation in 2011–12, he was sacked by Bristol City in January 2013 with the club bottom of the Championship. He was appointed Aberdeen manager in March 2013 but was sacked eight years later in March 2021, having won the Scottish League Cup in 2014, finished Scottish Premiership runners-up four times and reached three other cup finals. In January 2022 McInnes was appointed manager of Kilmarnock. He guided Kilmarnock to promotion later in 2022 and then European qualification in 2024. At the end of the 2024–25 season he left Kilmarnock to become the head coach of Hearts.