Alex Mackie (born in Banffshire in 1870) was a Scottish Association football player and manager who took charge of Sunderland and Middlesbrough.
After this, he spent seven seasons as player-manager of Sunderland during one of their most productive playing periods, winning the 1901–02 Football League championship,[2] though his involvement in the Andy McCombie scandal brought a suspension imposed by the Football Association.
Following the football payments scandal at the end of 1905, he received a ban forbidding him from any active participation in football, unlike his predecessor who had the foresight to obtain a letter of absolution from the club chairman.
However, Mackie was disillusioned with football by this point and so pre-empted the ban by voluntarily severing his interests.
He took over the Star and Garter Hotel in Marton Road, Middlesbrough in June 1906.