Gavin David Strachan (born 23 December 1978) is a Scottish professional association football coach, and former player and sports journalist.
He is currently a first team coach at Scottish Premiership club Celtic, and he was assistant manager at Doncaster Rovers from 2015 to 2018, then Peterborough United until 2020.
Spending most of his early years with Coventry City, Strachan has played for ten different senior clubs, and is a self-described journeyman.
Back at Coventry he played in sixteen league games, eleven of them as a substitute;[6] he left soon after the senior Strachan stepped down as manager in late 2001.
In the 2006–07 season, Strachan saw limited selection by new Pools boss Danny Wilson after the signings of Gary Liddle and Willie Boland.
[17] In July 2011, Strachan returned to Peterborough United as youth team coach, replacing David Oldfield who departed to take up a similar role with West Bromwich Albion.
[18] On 26 January 2019, Strachan became assistant manager to Darren Ferguson at Peterborough United after the dismissal of Steve Evans and Paul Raynor.