Jim Jefferies: Dunfermline is latest stop in varied career for manager

AFTER playing more than 300 games for Hearts, Jim Jefferies left Tynecastle to spend the last two seasons of his career with Berwick Rangers.

He left Shielfield in 1983 to start his managerial career at East of Scotland League side Gala Fairydean.

His senior managerial career began back at Berwick in September 1988.

He turned around a struggling side and they set a club record of 21 games unbeaten in the league during season 1988–89.

A move to Falkirk followed in 1990 and Jefferies guided them to the First Division title (and promotion to the Premier Division) in both 1991 and 1994 The Bairns also won the Challenge Cup in 1993.

In August 1995, Jefferies returned to Tynecastle. and was manager of the Hearts team that won the Scottish Cup in 1998, his greatest success in the game to date.

Jefferies moved south of the Border on 20 November 2000 to replace Chris Hutchings as manager of then Premier League side Bradford City but was unable to prevent them from going down.

He resigned in December 2001 after a poor start to the season left them with no hope of a promotion challenge.

On 28 February 2002, he returned to management with Kilmarnock and spent eight seasons at Rugby Park before leaving by “mutual consent” on 11 January 2010.

Jefferies was appointed manager of Hearts for a second time on 29 January 2010, just hours after Csaba Laszlo was sacked.

Hearts finished third in the SPL in 2010-11 season, but Jefferies and his assistant Billy Brown were sacked by owner Vladimir Romanov on 1 August 2011, after just two games of the season.