David Bowman

Bowman started his senior career with Hearts, making 116 league appearances before leaving in 1984. He moved to Coventry City for two seasons where he was joined by Jim McInally, signing from Nottingham Forest. They left together in 1986, joining Dundee United for a combined £140,000 transfer fee, and reached the 1987 UEFA Cup Final in their first season there. En route United beat Barcelona home and away in the quarter-finals and then eliminated Borussia Mönchengladbach in the semi-finals. They lost 2–1 on aggregate in the final against IFK Göteborg. Bowman and McInally won the Scottish Cup with Dundee United in 1994, beating Rangers in the final, and lost three other Scottish Cup finals, against St. Mirren in 1987, Celtic in 1988, and Motherwell in 1991, with Bowman scoring in the latter final. Bowman is ranked tenth on United's all-time appearance list. He was linked with a move to Livingston in June 1998, but opted to sign for Raith Rovers. He also had spells with Hong Kong club Yee Hope, and finally Forfar Athletic. In October 2000, while playing for Forfar, he received a Scottish record seven-game suspension, imposed for swearing at the match officials. Bowman broke the record again in September 2001, being handed a seventeen-game suspension for committing the same offence in a match against Stranraer where the referee showed him the red card four times during his tirade, and then a fifth time for kicking in the referee's changeroom door ; as of 2022, this remains the…

Bowman made six full international appearances for Scotland between March 1992 and September 1993. He was part of Scotland's UEFA Euro 1992 finals squad, but was not selected for any of his team's three games.

As Forfar were a part-time club, Bowman was able to join the coaching staff at Dundee United, where he continued to serve the club until he left following Craig Brewster's appointment as manager in 2006. After a brief spell as a pundit for BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound programme, he returned to coaching when old friend John Robertson invited him to be his assistant at Livingston. Following his spell in Livingston, Bowman moved to Dens Park to work alongside Gordon Wallace as youth coach. In October 2007, Bowman returned to Tannadice for a third time, accepting an invitation as community coach. On 28 September 2015, Bowman took temporary charge of Dundee United's first-team squad in the wake of manager Jackie McNamara's departure from the club.

Dave Bowman was born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England on 10 March 1964. He is the son of Scottish footballer Andy Bowman, formerly of Chelsea and Heart of Midlothian (Hearts), who was playing for Tonbridge at the time of his son's birth. The family subsequently moved to Edinburgh, where Dave grew up. He played youth football for Salvesen Boys Club before signing for his father's former club, Hearts, in June 1980.