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 EFL Championship club West Bromwich Albion, and he was assistant manager at Doncaster Rovers from 2015 to 2018, then Peterborough United until 2020. After Peterborough he spent six years on the coaching staff at Scottish Premiership side Celtic. He is the son of former manager and player Gordon Strachan, and the father of player Luke Strachan.
Spending most of his early years with Coventry City, Strachan has played for ten different senior clubs, and is a self-described journeyman. He was capped eight times for the Scotland U21 national team.
As part of a degree in sports journalism at University of Staffordshire Strachan wrote a blog for BBC News 2008–2009.
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Playing career
Strachan was born in Aberdeen. He began his football career at Coventry City where his father, Gordon Strachan, had taken over as player-manager in 1996. He was loaned out to Dundee in 1998, making nine appearances. Back at Coventry he played in sixteen league games, eleven of them as a substitute; he left soon after the senior Strachan stepped down as manager in late 2001. He scored once during his spell at Coventry; scoring a penalty against Preston North End in the League Cup.