Alan Combe

Alan Combe
Alan Combe in 2024
Personal information
Full name Alan Combe[1]
Date of birth (1974-04-03) 3 April 1974 (age 50)
Place of birth Edinburgh, Scotland
Team information
Current team
 Dundee (goalkeeping coach)
Youth career
Kelty Hearts
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1992–1993 Cowdenbeath 18 (0)
1993–1998 St Mirren 124 (0)
1998–2003 Dundee United 73 (0)
2002 → Bradford City (loan) 16 (0)
2003–2004 Bradford City 21 (0)
2004–2011 Kilmarnock 149 (0)
2011 Clyde (trial) 1 (0)
2011 Hamilton Academical (trial) 1 (0)
2012 Greenock Morton 10 (0)
2012–2014 Heart of Midlothian 0 (0)
2014–2015 Hibernian 0 (0)
Total 413 (0)
International career
2005 Scotland B 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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.

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 playing for Kilmarnock

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

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] League cup[b] Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Cowdenbeath 1992–93 Scottish First Division 18 0 18 0
St Mirren 1993–94 Scottish First Division 16 0 16 0
1994–95 21 0 21 0
1995–96 21 0 21 0
1996–97 36 0 2 0 38 0
1997–98 30 0 1 0 2 0 33 0
Total 124 0 1 0 4 0 129 0
Dundee United 1998–99 Scottish Premier League 10 0 – – 10 0
1999–2000 35 0 4 0 4 0 43 0
2000–01 23 0 – 3 0 26 0
2002–03 5 0 – 1 0 6 0
TOtal 73 0 4 0 8 0 85 0
Bradford City (loan) 2001–02 Football League First Division 16 0 – – 16 0
Bradford City 2003–04 Football League First Division 21 0 1 0 – 22 0
Kilmarnock 2004–05 Scottish Premier League 32 0 3 0 2 0 37 0
2005–06 32 0 1 0 2 0 35 0
2006–07 11 0 0 0 2 0 13 0
2007–08 37 0 1 0 2 0 40 0
2008–09 34 0 2 0 3 0 39 0
Total 146 0 7 0 11 0 164 0
Career total 398 0 13 0 23 0 434 0

Notes

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

References

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

See also