| Alexander Francis Neil (born 9 June 1981) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is currently head coach of EFL Championship club Millwall.
Neil began his professional career at Airdrieonians in 2000, playing half a season in the Scottish Football League First Division before moving to Barnsley. He played 142 games across all competitions in his four-year spell at Barnsley, and then signed for Mansfield Town on a free transfer. After a season at Mansfield, he returned to Scotland's First Division with Hamilton Academical, featuring in 246 matches across a decade and winning promotion to the Scottish Premier League in 2008.
He became Hamilton's player-manager in 2013 and led them to promotion to the Scottish Premiership in 2014. In January 2015 he was appointed manager of Norwich City, as the second youngest manager in the Football League at the time. Neil guided Norwich to promotion to the Premier League, by winning the 2015 Football League Championship play-off final. Norwich suffered relegation the following season, and in March 2017, Neil was sacked. He was appointed Preston North End's manager on 4 July 2017 and led the team to seventh place in the 2017–18 Championship. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article |
|  Hamilton Academical | 13/15 | | League Cup 13/14 | 3 | | Championship 13/14 | 36 | | SPFL Playoffs 14 | 4 | | League Cup 14/15 | 4 | | SPFL 14/15 | 20 | |  Norwich City | 15/17 | | Championship 14/15 | 25 | | EPL 15/16 | 38 | | League Cup 15/16 | 3 | | FA Cup 15/16 | 1 | | Championship 16/17 | 36 | | League Cup 16/17 | 3 | | EFL Trophy 16/17 | 4 | | FA Cup 16/17 | 2 | | | Preston North End | 17/21 | | Championship 17/18 | 46 | | League Cup 17/18 | 1 | | FA Cup 17/18 | 2 | | Championship 18/19 | 46 | | League Cup 18/19 | 3 | | FA Cup 18/19 | 1 | | Championship 19/20 | 46 | | League Cup 19/20 | 3 | | FA Cup 19/20 | 1 | | League Cup 20/21 | 3 | | Championship 20/21 | 38 | | FA Cup 20/21 | 1 | | | Sunderland | 22 | | League One 21/22 | 18 | | League Cup 22/23 | 1 | | Championship 22/23 | 6 | | | Stoke City | 22/23 | | Championship 22/23 | 40 | | FA Cup 22/23 | 3 | | League Cup 23/24 | 3 | | Championship 23/24 | 20 | | | Millwall | 24/now | | Championship 24/25 | 23 | | FA Cup 24/25 | 3 | | League Cup 25/26 | 3 | | Championship 25/26 | 19 |
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20 lineups analysed - Number represent player in starting lineup. Click to show
Lineups not confirmed are not included.
See also Team Substitutions
| Lineups found Starting lineup changes since last game | | | | | | | | | | M1 | 09Aug | H | Inverness | | 0-2 | 4-4-2 | Initial team: McGovern, Gordon, Devlin, Canning, Hendrie, Imrie, Neil, Redmond, Gillesp., Longrid., Scotland, | | | M2 | 13Aug | | St Mirren | | 0-2 | 4-4-2 | In:G Tena, Crawford, A-Curier, MacKinn.,
Out:Devlin, Hendrie, Longrid., Scotland, | | | M3 | 16Aug | H | St Johnst | | 1-0 | 4-2-3-1 | In:Hendrie,
Out:Neil, | | | M4 | 23Aug | | Partick | | 1-2 | 4-4-2 | In:Longrid.,
Out:Hendrie, | | | M5 | 30Aug | H | Ross Co | | 4-0 | 4-2-3-1 | In:Andreu,
Out:Longrid., | | | M6 | 13Sep | | Dundee U | | 2-2 | 4-2-3-1 | *** Repeat 11 *** | | | M7 | 20Sep | H | Kilmarnck | | 0-0 | 4-1-4-1 | In:Devlin, Hendrie, Neil, Scotland,
Out:Canning, G Tena, MacKinn., A-Curier, | | | M8 | 27Sep | | Mothrwell | | 0-4 | 4-1-4-1 | In:G Tena, A-Curier,
Out:Neil, Scotland, | | | M9 | 05Oct | | Celtic | | 0-1 | 4-1-4-1 | *** Repeat 11 *** | | | M10 | 17Oct | H | Aberdeen | | 3-0 | 4-2-3-1 | *** Repeat 11 *** | | | M11 | 25Oct | | Dundee | | 2-0 | 4-1-4-1 | *** Repeat 11 *** | | | M12 | 01Nov | H | Partick | | 3-3 | 4-2-3-1 | In:Canning, MacKinn.,
Out:Devlin, Hendrie, | | | M13 | 08Nov | | Inverness | | 4-2 | 4-4-2 | In:Devlin, Hendrie, Routled.,
Out:Canning, Gillesp., Imrie, | | | M14 | 22Nov | H | St Mirren | | 3-0 | 4-1-4-1 | In:Canning, Gillesp., Imrie,
Out:Devlin, Routled., MacKinn., | | | M15 | 06Dec | | Aberdeen | | 3-0 | 4-2-3-1 | In:Devlin, Routled., MacKinn., Scotland,
Out:G Tena, Redmond, Imrie, A-Curier, | | | M16 | 13Dec | H | Dundee | | 2-1 | 4-2-3-1 | In:Neil, Imrie, A-Curier,
Out:Gordon, Routled., Scotland, | | | M17 | 20Dec | | Ross Co | | 0-1 | 4-2-3-1 | *** Repeat 11 *** | | | M18 | 27Dec | | Kilmarnck | | 1-0 | 4-2-3-1 | *** Repeat 11 *** | | | M19 | 01Jan | H | Mothrwell | | 5-0 | 4-2-3-1 | *** Repeat 11 *** | | | M20 | 04Jan | | St Johnst | | 0-1 | 4-1-4-1 | In:Routled.,
Out:Neil, | | | Color References: GK, DF, DM, MF, FW , Unknown Pos |
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