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Steven Whittaker

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Born
1984 (40 years old)

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Edinburgh, Scotland

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Right-Back

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Retired

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185 cm

Weight
86 kg

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Steven Gordon Whittaker (born 16 June 1984) is a Scottish football coach and former player, who played as a defender.

Whittaker began his career with Hibernian and made over 170 appearances in his first spell with the Easter Road side. He also won the Scottish League Cup in 2007 before signing for Rangers in August that year. Whittaker won three Scottish Premier League titles, two Scottish Cups and three Scottish League Cups with Rangers. At the start of the 2012–13 season, he signed for Norwich City on a free transfer. After five years with Norwich, Whittaker returned to Hibernian in 2017, before moving to Dunfermline Athletic in 2020 in what would be his final season as a player.

He made 31 international appearances for the Scotland national team between 2009 and 2016.

Whittaker was a regular for the Scotland under-21 squad. In October 2006 he was added to the full Scotland squad for the Euro 2008 qualifying match against Ukraine, although he did not feature in the match. Whittaker was then called into the Scotland B side to face a Republic of Ireland B team on 20 November 2007. He played 68 minutes before being replaced by Ross McCormack. He also played in the goalless draw between those two sides in November 2006.

He made his debut for the full national side on 12 August 2009, in a 4–0 defeat to Norway. His second appearance came in the 2–0 victory over Macedonia, when he came on for the injured Callum Davidson. Whittaker earned 31 caps up to March 2016. He dropped out of the squad as he lost his place at Norwich, but was recalled in September 2017.

Whittaker, who had been a coach at Dunfermline Athletic when he retired as a player, became joint interim manager (along with Greg Shields) of the club after Peter Grant left the club. Shields and Whittaker were in charge for two matches, before John Hughes was appointed on a permanent basis.

On 13 May 2022 Whittaker joined Fleetwood Town as assistant manager, working with his former Hibs and Scotland teammate Scott Brown. Whittaker and Brown were sacked by Fleetwood in September 2023.