Exeter City have appointed former Scotland international defender Gary Caldwell as the successor to Matt Taylor.
Caldwell, 40, started his playing with Newcastle United, but after failing to break into the Magpies' first team he joined Hibernian in 2004. His form for Hibs earned him a move to Celtic in 2006 and he won all three domestic trophies (the SPL, the Scottish Cup and the Scottish League Cup) before moving to the Premier League to sign for Wigan Athletic in 2010. He was part of the Latics' squad that shocked Manchester City to win the FA Cup in 2013; he was an unused sub, but he lifted the trophy together with playing captain Emmerson Boyce.
In addition to this, Caldwell was capped 55 times by Scotland and scored twice.
As a manager, Caldwell was appointed as Wigan Athletic manager in April 2015 and was unable to stop the Latics from being relegated to the Championship at the end of the 2014-15 campaign. However, under his guidance, Wigan bounced back to win the League One title in the 2015-16 season.
After a poor start to the 2016-17 campaign, Caldwell was dismissed by the Latics before he was appointed as Chesterfield manager in 2017, but was unable to prevent the Spireites being relegated from League One at the end of the 2016-17 season. Nevertheless, after a poor start to the 2017-18 campaign he was dismissed by Chesterfield.
A spell in charge of Partick Thistle followed before Caldwell had a brief stint as Under-23's manager at Newcastle United. He then returned to Hibs as assistant manager under his former Celtic and Wigan teammate Shaun Maloney, a post which he held until Maloney was sacked in April 2022 following an Scottish Cup game semi-final defeat to city neighbours Hearts.
