Paul Coutts is a Scottish

Scotland

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 footballer, currently playing for Football League One

Football League One

Football League One is the second-highest division of The Football League and third-highest division overall in the English football league system....

 side Preston North End

Preston North End F.C.

Preston North End Football Club is an English professional football club located in the Deepdale area of the city of Preston, Lancashire, currently playing in the third tier of English league football, League One...

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Peterborough United

Having learned his trade at Scottish Premier League side Aberdeen as a youth player, the club he supported as a boy, he moved to Highland League side Cove Rangers. Coutts then joined Peterborough United on a three-year deal in July 2008 after impressing with his ball control during a trial period with the club, which involved playing an hour during each of two pre-season friendlies, against a Liverpool

Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...

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Liverpool F.C. Reserves

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 and Stevenage

Stevenage Borough F.C.

Stevenage Football Club is an English football club based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The club currently participate in League One, the third tier of English football, having won promotion from League Two in the 2010–11 season...

. Coutts made his professional debut for Peterborough as a substitute in Peterborough's 5–4 win over Bristol Rovers

Bristol Rovers F.C.

Bristol Rovers Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Bristol, that competes in Football League Two. The team plays its home matches at the Memorial Stadium, in the Horfield area of the city....

, and had his first start the following game against local rivals Northampton Town

Northampton Town F.C.

Northampton Town Football Club are an English professional football club based in Northampton, Northamptonshire. They currently play in Football League Two, the lowest league division, after being relegated from League One on the last day of the 2008–09 season...

. In Coutts' first season with Peterborough, he made 34 league appearances and 4 FA Cup

FA Cup

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 appearances and gained promotion to the Coca-Cola Championship

Preston North End

Coutts signed a deal with Preston North End in January 2010 when former Peterborough manager Darren Ferguson was in charge at the central Lancashire club.

Honours

• 2007–08 Highland League
  Highland Football League
  The Press & Journal Highland Football League is a league of football clubs operating not just in the Scottish Highlands, as the name may suggest, but also in the north-east lowlands...
  
   Championship
• 2007–08 Highland League
  Highland Football League
  The Press & Journal Highland Football League is a league of football clubs operating not just in the Scottish Highlands, as the name may suggest, but also in the north-east lowlands...
  
   Player of the Year
• 2008–09: League One
  Football League One
  Football League One is the second-highest division of The Football League and third-highest division overall in the English football league system....
  
   Runner Up (promotion to The Championship
  Football League Championship
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  ) – Peterborough United
  Peterborough United F.C.
  Peterborough United Football Club are a professional English football club based in Peterborough. Peterborough United formed in 1934 and played in the old Midland League, which they won six times; eventually being admitted to the Football League in 1960, replacing Gateshead. Their home ground is...
  
  

External links

• Paul Coutts, Scottish Football Association
  Scottish Football Association
  The Scottish Football Association is the governing body of football in Scotland and has the ultimate responsibility for the control and development of football in Scotland. Members of the SFA include clubs in Scotland, affiliated national associations as well as local associations...