Jim Brennan

Bristol City

A left-sided defender who also has played the left side of the midfield, Brennan grew up in Newmarket, Ontario, and started playing with Bristol City youth team in 1994 and made his professional debut in 1996 with Bristol City against cross town rivals Bristol Rovers in the Football League First Division. In 5 years Brennan had five managers including Russell Osman, Benny Lennartsson, Joe Jordan, John Ward and Tony Pulis. In 64 first-team appearances for City over five seasons, Brennan scored three goals. Brennan started his career in the Bristol City youth team and worked his way into the first team before being sold to Nottingham Forest.

Nottingham Forest

Brennan joined Nottingham Forest for £1.5 million in October 1999 and was bought by ex-England captain David Platt. Brennan was the first Canadian-born player to be sold over the 1 million pound mark. In 137 games played with Forest over four seasons under David Platt and Paul Hart, Brennan scored just once, in a 4–0 victory against Norwich City, the team he would later go on to sign for. While he was recovering from a double hernia he had a short loan spell at Huddersfield with his old manager Joe Jordan. He also came on as a substitute in two league games while on loan to Huddersfield in 2000–01 and received a red card against Birmingham City and headed back to Forest.

Norwich City

Brennan joined Norwich City on a free Bosman transfer in 2003 and was managed by Nigel…

Brennan played at the 1993 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Japan, in a team alongside Paul Stalteri and Jason Bent. He then made his senior debut for Canada in an April 1999 friendly match against Northern Ireland and went on to earn a total of 49 caps, scoring 6 goals. He has represented Canada in 10 FIFA World Cup qualification matches. He has played for Canada at the Confederations Cup 2001 and played against Brazil, Cameroon and hosts Japan as well he competed at the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Brennan won a gold medal in the 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup defeating Colombia and bronze medal in the 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup defeating South Korea.

International Goals

Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first.

Toronto FC

Following Brennan's retirement, Toronto FC named him assistant general manager to Mo Johnston. However following the firing of Johnston in the late 2010 season, Brennan's position remained unknown with the club until the new management team was put in place. It included Paul Mariner as director of player development and Aron Winter as head coach. On 1 March 2011, the club announced that the new position of Brennan within the club would be as head coach of the Toronto FC Academy U-17 team in the Second Division of the Canadian Soccer League; his first coaching position.

On 14 May 2012, Brennan was promoted to first-team assistant coach under Aron Winter. On 28 September 2013, Brennan filled in for Toronto FC head coach Ryan Nelsen who was serving a suspension. In August 2014, Brennan was fired along with Nelsen and the rest of the club's first-team staff.

Aurora FC

In March 2015, Brennan became the executive director and director of soccer operations at the Aurora Youth Soccer Club. Under his leadership the club was renamed Aurora FC and gained entry into the semi-professional League1 Ontario. He created Aurora FC's slogan One Style, One Passion. He coached his sons' 2008 Boys team for about 4 years. He later departed the club in December 2017. He stopped coaching the 2008 boys in late December 2018.

York United

In 2018, Brennan joined Carlo Baldassarra and Preben Ganzhorn to found the company that owns the Canadian Premier League club…

Brennan's father is from Northern Ireland, while his mother is from Scotland.