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{{Infobox Football biography
| playername = Derek Dougan
| image =
| fullname = Alexander Derek Dougan
| dateofbirth = {{birth date|1938|1|20}}
| cityofbirth = [[Belfast]]
| countryofbirth = [[Northern Ireland]]
| dateofdeath = {{death date and age|2007|6|24|1938|1|20}}
| cityofdeath = [[Wolverhampton]]
| countryofdeath = [[England]]
| nickname = ''Doog''<br>''Cheyenne''<br>''Clown Prince of Soccer''
| position = [[defender (football)|Defender]] / [[Midfielder]] / [[striker|Forward]]
| youthyears = 195x–195x
| youthclubs = Cregagh Boys
| years = 1954–1957<br>1957–1959<br>1959–1961<br>1961–1963<br>1963–1965<br>1965–1967<br>1967–1976<br>1967<br>1969<br>1973<br>1975–1977
| clubs = [[Distillery F.C.|Distillery]]<br>[[Portsmouth F.C.|Portsmouth]]<br>[[Blackburn Rovers F.C.|Blackburn Rovers]]<br>[[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]]<br>[[Peterborough United F.C.|Peterborough United]]<br>[[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]]<br>[[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolverhampton Wanderers]]<br> → [[Los Angeles Wolves]] ''(guest)''<br> → [[Kansas City Spurs]] ''(guest)'' <br> → [[Shamrock Rovers XI]] ''(guest)'' <br>[[Kettering Town F.C.|Kettering Town]] (player manager)
| caps(goals) = {{0}}76 {{0}}(17)<br>{{0}}33 {{0}}{{0}}(9)<br>{{0}}59 {{0}}(26)<br>{{0}}51 {{0}}(19)<br>{{0}}77 {{0}}(38)<br>{{0}}68 {{0}}(35)<br>258 {{0}}(95)<br>{{0}}11 {{0}}{{0}}(3)<br>{{0}}{{0}}? {{0}}{{0}}(4)<br><br>
| nationalyears = 1953<br>195x<br>195x<br>1957-1959<br>1958–1973
| nationalteam = Northern Ireland Schoolboys<br>Northern Ireland U-19s<br>Northern Ireland Amateurs<br>[[Northern Ireland B national football team|Northern Ireland B]]<br>[[Northern Ireland national football team|Northern Ireland]]
| nationalcaps(goals) = {{0}}{{0}}3 {{0}}{{0}} (-)<br>{{0}}{{0}}{{0}}- {{0}}{{0}}(-)<br>{{0}}{{0}}2 {{0}}{{0}} (-)<br>{{0}}{{0}}2 {{0}}{{0}}(3)<br>{{0}}43 {{0}}{{0}}(8)
}}
'''Alexander Derek Dougan''' ([[January 20]], [[1938]] – [[June 24]], [[2007]]) was a former professional [[Football (soccer)|footballer]]. Dougan played for several clubs, but had his longest association with [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolverhampton Wanderers]].
In 18 years in the [[Football League|English League]], Dougan scored 222 goals in 546 matches, including 95 in 258 for [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolves]]. He began his career as a wing-half / central defender before being converted to a centre-forward. During his career, Dougan scored [[hat-trick]]s in the [[Football League First Division|First Division]], the [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]], the [[FA Cup]], the [[Football League Cup|League Cup]] and the [[UEFA Cup]] and scored more [[Football League|English League]] goals than any other Irishman.
On [[June 24]] [[2007]], Dougan died at the age of 69 from a heart attack at his home in Wolverhampton.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/wolverhampton_wanderers/6234726.stm|title=Wolves legend Dougan dies aged 69|accessdate=2007-06-26|date=[[2007-06-24]]|publisher=BBC Sport}}</ref> His funeral was held on the 5 July 2007 at St Peter's Church, Wolverhampton, and the service was transmitted to a crowd of mourners outside the church with [[loudspeaker]]s.
==Club career ==
=== Early years ===
Dougan made 76 appearances and scored 17 goals for [[Distillery F.C.|Distillery]], helping them win the [[Irish Cup]] in 1956, before joining [[Portsmouth F.C.|Portsmouth]] for a fee of £4,000 in August 1957. Dougan made 33 league appearances and scored 9 league goals for Portsmouth, playing a further three games for them in the [[FA Cup]].
He then moved to [[Blackburn Rovers F.C.|Blackburn Rovers]] in March 1959 for a fee of £15,000 and scored on his debut in a 1-1 draw away to [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]]. 'Doog', went onto to play for Rovers in the [[FA Cup Final 1960|1960 FA Cup Final]] against his future club [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolves]], despite having asked for a transfer on the eve of the match. It was his brace in the semi-final against [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.|Sheffield Wednesday]] that had secured Rovers' passage to [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley]] and Dougan famously went on to score four goals in a 6-2 victory over [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham]].
After two and a half years at [[Ewood Park]], Dougan went to [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]] in July 1961. Two years later he moved to [[Peterborough United F.C.|Peterborough United]] before signing for [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]] in May 1965, where he stayed for just under two seasons.
=== Wolves ===
Dougan joined [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolverhampton Wanderers]] for £50,000 in March 1967. In just over eight seasons at Wolves, he made 323 senior appearances and scored 123 goals, placing him as their eighth highest goalscorer of all-time.
He marked his home debut by scoring a [[hat-trick]] against [[Hull City F.C.|Hull City]] on [[25 March]] [[1967]], in a season that saw him help Wolves clinch promotion from the [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]]. He was then leading marksman at Wolves in [[1967-68 in English football|1967-68]], [[1968-69 in English football|1968-69]] and [[1971-72 in English football|1971-72]]. He also netted a [[hat-trick]] in the [[UEFA Cup 1971-72|UEFA Cup]] against [[Associação Académica de Coimbra - O.A.F.|Académica]], becoming the only Wolves player to date to have scored a hat-trick in a major [[UEFA|European]] competition. His tally of 12 goals in European competition is also a club record. Four days before that game, Dougan had also netted three goals when Wolves beat [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]] in a league match.
During his time at Wolves, Dougan formed successful partnerships with [[Peter Knowles]], [[Hugh Curran]], [[Bobby Gould]] and then [[John Richards (footballer)|John Richards]] and in 1974 collected a [[Football League Cup|League Cup]] winners medal. Dougan also played for Wolves in the [[United States]] when, playing as the [[Los Angeles Wolves]], they won the [[United Soccer Association]] title in 1967, and in 1969, playing as [[Kansas City Spurs]], they won the [[North American Soccer League|NASL International Cup]].
Dougan was a beloved personality of the game and idolised by the [[Molineux Stadium|Molineux]] crowd for his sometimes audacious antics and opinionated views on the game and, in particular, a professional players lot within the [[Football Association]] ''vis a vis'' their ownership or "free agency" rights. Dougan was known for his traditional centre forward heading prowess but was surprisingly adept with his feet despite his gangly height. This was particularly evident during his "de rigueur" move of playing a ball to the corner flag and achieving a very high percentage of corner kicks.
He played for Wolves until his retirement from league football in 1975, when he went into management with non-league [[Kettering Town F.C.|Kettering Town]]. He was honored with a testimonial by the club against a [[Don Revie]] Select Xl on [[20 October]] [[1975]].
==International career==
Dougan represented Northern Ireland at schoolboy, U-19, amateur and B level as a wing-half and centre-defender. Dougan won 43 senior caps and scored 8 goals for [[Northern Ireland national football team|Northern Ireland]]. He made his international debut on [[8 June]] [[1958]] in 1-0 win against [[Czechoslovakia national football team|Czechoslovakia]] during the [[1958 FIFA World Cup]], his country's first-ever World Cup finals match. He made his final appearance for Northern Ireland on [[14 February]] [[1973]] in a [[1974 FIFA World Cup]] qualifier against [[Cyprus national football team|Cyprus]].
Together with [[Pat Jennings]] and [[Martin O'Neill]], Dougan was also one of seven Northern Ireland internationals to feature in a "[[Shamrock Rovers]]" XI against [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] in [[Shamrock Rovers XI vs Brazil|an exhibition match]] in July 1973. Dougan scored one of Rovers goals in the 4-3 defeat. The Rovers XI was actually an [[All-Ireland]] team, which also featured [[Republic of Ireland national football team|Republic of Ireland]] internationals. The Northern Ireland-based [[Irish Football Association|IFA]] had opposed the staging of the game, with the FAI also having reservations (according to Republic manager [[Liam Tuohy (footballer)|Liam Tuohy]]).
Dougan, who had helped organise it, was subsequently to allege that his involvement in this game meant he never played for Northern Ireland again,<ref>
{{cite news |url=http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/football.cfm?id=183212004 |title=Brazil's return to Dublin's flair city conjures up memories |work=[[Scotland on Sunday]] |first=Ciaran |last=O Righallaigh |date=[[15 February]] 2004 |accessdate=2007-11-29 }}
</ref> though at 35 he was in any case near the end of his career. Dougan continued to be an advocate of an All-Ireland soccer team, however.<ref>
{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6273950.stm |title=Dougan 'was unsung hero of peace' |accessdate=2007-11-29 |date=[[5 July]] 2007 |publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]]}}
</ref>
==Off-field life==
During the [[1970 FIFA World Cup]] Dougan was a panelist for [[ITV]]. He served as chairman of the [[Professional Footballers Association]] from 1970 to 1978 and was instrumental in the establishment of players rights and free agency. Dougan believed passionately that a player should control their own destiny and used his position as Chairman of the PFA to further players rights. Many of football's modern elite have benefited from Dougan's passionate perseverance of this issue and this may well be reflected upon as his lasting, albeit controversial, legacy.
In August 1982 he became chief executive and later chairman of [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolves]], as part of a consortium that saved the club from liquidation, a position he retained until 1985. He stood as a parliamentary candidate for [[Belfast East (UK Parliament constituency)|East Belfast]] in the [[United Kingdom general election, 1997|1997 election]], but got only 1.4% of the vote. In December 2005, Dougan helped carry the coffin of [[George Best]] with a number of other Northern Ireland teammates. On [[14 June]] [[2006]], he appeared on the [[BBC]] political show ''[[Question Time (TV series)|Question Time]]'', as a representative of [[United Kingdom Independence Party]].
==Honours==
'''Distillery'''
*'''[[Irish Cup]]'''
**''Winners'' 1955-56: '''1'''
'''Blackburn Rovers'''
*'''[[FA Cup]]'''
**''Runners Up'' [[FA Cup Final 1960|1960]]: '''1'''
'''Wolves'''
*'''[[Football League Cup|League Cup]]'''
**''Winners'' 1973-74: '''1'''
*'''[[UEFA Cup 1971-72|UEFA Cup]]'''
**''Runners Up'' 1971-72: '''1'''
*'''[[Texaco Cup]]'''
**''Winners'' 1971-72: '''1'''
*'''[[Football League Second Division|Second Division]]'''
**''Runners Up'' [[1966-67 in English football#Second Division|1966-67]]: '''1'''
'''Los Angeles Wolves'''
*'''[[United Soccer Association]]'''
**''Winners'' 1967: '''1'''
'''Kansas City Spurs'''
*'''[[North American Soccer League|NASL International Cup]]'''
**''Winners'' 1969: '''1'''
==Sources==
*''Who's Who Of Aston Villa'' (2004): Tony Matthews [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1840188219]
*''The Sash He Never Wore'' (1972): Derek Dougan
*''The Sash He Never Wore ... Twenty Five Years On '' (1997): Derek Dougan
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football-heroes/displayhero_club.asp?HeroID=4873 Sporting Heroes]
*[http://nifootball.blogspot.com/2006/11/derek-dougan.html Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats]
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/sport/clubs/wolves/derek_dougan_biog.shtml Dougan at www.bbc.co.uk]
*[http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2710620.ece Obituary by The Independent]
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