Stephen Wright (Scottish footballer)


Stephen Wright is a Scottish former footballer who played as a right back. Wright is currently the Head of Academy for Dundee.

Playing career

Club

Raised in Hamilton, Wright started his career with Aberdeen – progressing through the ranks alongside Eoin Jess and Scott Booth – and made nearly 150 league appearances for the Dons; he was part of the squad that came close to winning the League title on the final day of the Scottish Premier League in the 1990–91 season, and achieved further league runners-up finishes in 1993 and 1994, plus reaching finals in the 1992–93 League Cup and Scottish Cup. In 1995 they escaped relegation only via a playoff, an unexpected situation which meant Wright celebrated his wedding prior to the tie rather than after the season's conclusion as he had planned.
In summer 1995 he joined his boyhood heroes Rangers for £1.5m. Much of his time at Ibrox was spent injured, following a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee during a UEFA Champions League match against Juventus in his first season. After just seven league appearances in three years, Wright had a loan spell with Wolverhampton Wanderers before joining Bradford City in 1998, where he reunited with former Rangers teammate Stuart McCall and helped the club gain promotion to the Premier League in his first season, although he did not make a league appearance in his second.
Those two years with the Bantams preceded another two back in Scotland with Dundee United, where he took an interest in the coaching aspect of the game, before Wright finished his career in 2002 with a short spell at Scunthorpe United.

International

Wright won two international caps while playing for Aberdeen, in March and May 1993.

Coaching career

Wright joined Dunfermline Athletic as first-team coach in January 2008, moving from a youth coaching role at Rangers.
He coached with Fife Elite Football Academy for nearly a decade before returning to Rangers in May 2017.
Wright became the Head of Academy at Dundee F.C. in February 2019.