John Clark (footballer, born 1964)

Clark was born in Edinburgh and joined Dundee United in 1976 and began to play for the reserves as a forward where he scored over 100 goals. He made his debut in the 1982–83.

His best season was 1986–87 where he featured prominently at centre half. He was their top scorer on the way to the 1987 UEFA Cup Final with a goal against each of Universitatea Craiova, Hajduk Split and FC Barcelona at the Camp Nou. He also scored in the second leg of the final at Tannadice Park as United lost 2–1 to IFK Göteborg.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52692004 |title=On This Day: Dundee United reach Uefa Cup final in 1987 |publisher=BBC Sport |date=20 May 2020 |access-date=21 May 2022|first=Richard |last=Winton }}{{cite news|url=https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-times/3312324/dundee-united-photos/ |title=Dundee United photos found in attic show amazing Uefa Cup final scenes at Tannadice |work=The Courier |date=20 May 2022 |access-date=21 May 2022 |first=Graeme |last=Strachan }}

That same season United also lost the 1987 Scottish Cup Final to St Mirren as they also did the season after to Celtic. Clark remained a regular in the Tannadice defence for the late 1980s and early 1990s making 330 appearances scoring 37 goals.

He moved to English club Stoke City in January 1994. Clark started his Stoke against Barnsley in a 3–0 defeat. He ended the 1993–94 season with 12 appearances. In 1994–95 Clark played in six matches and scored his only goal for Stoke which came in a 2–0 victory over Cesena in the Anglo-Italian Cup. When Lou Macari replaced Joe Jordan as manager in September 1994 Clark returned to Scotland.

Clark next joined Falkirk before transferring part way through his second season to Dunfermline. He had short spells also playing for Ayr United, Ross County and Berwick Rangers. He became Assistant Manager at Berwick.

Clark then dropped out of senior football with Gala Fairydean where he became player-manager. He became manager of Whitehill Welfare in 2004.

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!colspan="2"|Total

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!Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals

|-

|rowspan="13"|Dundee United

|1982–83

|Scottish Premier Division

|1||0||1||0||1||0||0||0||3||0

|-

|1983–84

|Scottish Premier Division

|10||1||3||0||5||0||3||0||21||1

|-

|1984–85

|Scottish Premier Division

|10||3||1||0||3||3||1||0||15||6

|-

|1985–86

|Scottish Premier Division

|11||1||0||0||0||0||2||0||13||1

|-

|1986–87

|Scottish Premier Division

|30||3||6||0||1||0||10||4||47||7

|-

|1987–88

|Scottish Premier Division

|28||3||8||0||0||0||3||2||39||5

|-

|1988–89

|Scottish Premier Division

|20||2||4||0||3||0||3||0||30||2

|-

|1989–90

|Scottish Premier Division

|29||1||4||1||2||0||3||2||38||4

|-

|1990–91

|Scottish Premier Division

|18||2||6||2||0||0||1||0||25||4

|-

|1991–92

|Scottish Premier Division

|34||1||2||3||1||0||0||0||39||2

|-

|1992–93

|Scottish Premier Division

|37||2||1||3||0||0||0||0||41||2

|-

|1993–94

|Scottish Premier Division

|14||0||0||0||3||2||2||1||19||3

|-

!colspan="2"|Total

!242!!19!!36!!3!!23!!6!!29!!9!!330!!37

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|rowspan="3"|Stoke City

|1993–94

|First Division

|12||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||12||0

|-

|1994–95

|First Division

|5||0||0||0||0||0||1||1||6||1

|-

!colspan="2"|Total

!17!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!1!!1!!18!!1

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!colspan="3"|Career Total

!259!!19!!36!!3!!23!!6!!30!!10!!348!!38

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:A. {{note|Other}} The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the Anglo-Italian Cup and UEFA Cup.

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; Dundee United

• Scottish Cup runner-up: 1986–87, 1987–88, 1990–91
• UEFA Cup runner-up: 1986–87

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