Brian Fairley (born 18 April 1959) is a Scottish former association football manager.
His coaching career began at Whitburn Juniors before going on to manage Stenhousemuir, however after a dispute with the board over a signing he resigned in October 2001.
[1] He then took over at Scottish Junior club Bo'ness United, but controversially resigned on the eve of a Scottish Junior Cup semifinal in March 2003 to become the manager at Dumbarton, along with assistant Allan McGonigal.
Narrowly missing out on automatic promotion on the last day of the season to second-placed Hamilton Academical by two points.
Dumbarton were unable to repeat that success the following season and Fairley resigned in December 2004.