Full name||colspan="2"|Bruce Rioch
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|Date of birth||colspan="2"|September 61947
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|Place of birth||colspan="2"|Aldershot, England
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|Current club||colspan="2"|Odense BK
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|Position||colspan="2"|Head coach
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| Years || Club || Apps (goals)
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|1964-70 1970-74 1974-76 1976-77 1977-79 Dec 1978 Mar 1979 1979-80 1980-83||Luton Town Aston Villa Derby County Everton Derby County Birmingham City (loan) Sheffield United (loan) Seattle Sounders Torquay United ||
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|1975-78||Scotland||24 (6)
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|1982-84 1986-90 1990-92 1992-95 1995-96 1996-97 1998-2000 2000-01 2005-||colspan="2"|Torquay United Middlesbrough Millwall Bolton Wanderers Arsenal Queens Park Rangers (assistant) Norwich City Wigan Athletic Odense BK
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* Professional club appearances and (goals) counted for the domestic league only.
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Bruce Rioch (born September 6, 1947) is the current coach of football club Odense BK in the Danish Superliga. A former player himself, he represented the Scotland national football team in 24 matches, becoming the first Scottish (by virtue of his father's birthplace) captain to be born in England. His son Gregor was also a professional footballer. He was born in Aldershot.
Having moved to Luton at the age of 14, Rioch joined his local side, Luton Town, turning professional in September 1964. He made his first team debut later that month, and his league debut in November 1964 in a 1-0 defeat at home to Southend United. He spent a couple years establishing himself and was a regular member of the Luton team, scoring 24 goals, that won the Fourth Division title in 1968. He moved to Aston Villa in July 1969 for a fee of £100,000, then a record fee paid by a Second Division side. He won a League Cup runners' up medal in 1970, Villa losing 2-0 to Tottenham Hotspur.
In July 1982, Rioch became player-manager of Torquay United, but left after a training ground incident with Colin Anderson in January 1984. In February 1985, After 13 months out of the game he was appointed manager of FC Seattle, but resigned in September 1985 to return to England.
Middlesbrough
He was appointed as manager of Middlesbrough in February 1986 and his first success in management came in 1987 when he guided Middlesbrough to runners-up spot in the Third Division and promotion to the Second Division at the end of a season which had started with them locked out of Ayresome Park by the official receiver and on the verge of bankruptcy. A year later they won a second successive promotion, this time as winners of the Second Division promotion/First Division relegation playoffs. However, Middlesbrough found it difficult to adjust to the pace of top flight football and spent all season fighting a relegation battle which was lost on the last day of the season. He was sacked the following March as the Teessiders hovered just above the Second Division drop zone.
Millwall
Rioch made a quick return to management the following month with Millwall and guided them to a playoff place in the 1990-91 Second Division campaign, but left in March 1992.
Bolton Wanderers
Rioch's next stop was at Bolton Wanderers, becoming manager in May 1992. In his first season, they finished runners-up in Division Two and won promotion to Division One. Two seasons later they were League Cup losing finalists to Liverpool and beat Reading 4-3 in extra time in the Division One playoff final after being 2-0 down at half time.
The playoff final victory was Rioch's last game as Bolton manager. A few weeks later he accepted the Arsenal manager's job and replaced at Bolton by Roy McFarland.
Just before the beginning of the 1996-97 season, Rioch was sacked after a dispute with the club's board of directors over transfer funds. His enduring legacy at the club was the signing of Dennis Bergkamp, whom Rioch had signed from Internazionale in the summer of 1995; Bergkamp would go on to become one of the club's greatest players.
Queens Park Rangers
After leaving Arsenal, he worked as assistant manager under Stewart Houston (his former assistant at Arsenal) at Queens Park Rangers but left along with Houston after just over a year at Loftus Road.
Norwich City
In May 1998, Rioch was appointed manager of Norwich City in Division One. He resigned after less than two seasons at the helm after failing to get the Canaries anywhere near the promotion and playoff places that the club had long been hoping for. He cited a perceived lack of ambition at the club as the main reason for his decision to resign (he correctly predicted that the club's star player Craig Bellamy would inevitably be sold), however he also acknowledged that the club's uncertain financial position meant that the transfer funds available to him were limited.
Wigan Athletic
Rioch made a swift return to management with Wigan Athletic for the 2000-01 season, but he left the club in February as they occupied the Division Two playoff zone. The club said that Rioch had resigned, but he insisted he was sacked.
Odense
Rioch was intent on returning to management, and was linked with the Derby County manager's job after John Gregory was sacked at the end of the 2002-03 season. But it was four years before he made his return to management. Since June 2005 he has been chief coach of Danish Superliga side Odense BK. He led Odense to a 3rd place in the Danish Superliga in his first season in charge.
