Michael McDermott (born 1974) is a Northern Irish football coach and former player who is the manager of League of Ireland First Division club Cobh Ramblers.

[10][11][12] McDermott has held coaching positions at some of Asia's biggest clubs; Al Ain (Abu Dhabi), Esteghlal (Tehran) and Al-Nasr (Dubai).

Previously he was the fitness coach of the Iran national football team[13][14] during their successful World Cup 2014 qualification campaign.

When Queiroz became the head coach of Colombia in February 2019 it was announced that McDermott would join him but an agreement was not reached with the Colombian FA.

McDermott strengthened the squad ahead of the 2020-21 season, signing former Northern Ireland international Luke McCullough and Gibraltar goalkeeper Dayle Coleing, as well as Burundi midfielder Gaël Bigirimana.