Managerial Career
His management career began in the Highland League with Elgin City, before he moved on to Huntly. In the summer of 1995 he joined Inverness Caledonian Thistle, who were playing in the Scottish Third Division at that time. Paterson spent seven and a half years at Caley Thistle, their longest-serving manager to date. During this time, he took the club from the Third Division to the First Division and presided over the team's famous victories against Celtic (resulting in the well-known newspaper headline "Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious") and Hearts in the Scottish Cup.
In November 2002, Paterson was strongly linked with the vacant manager's job at Dundee United, but he stayed at Caley Thistle for another month. He was offered the manager's position at Aberdeen and became the club's new boss on 11 December 2002. This move was not without controversy, as Paterson and his assistant Duncan Shearer were each supposed to have agreed a five-year contract with Caley Thistle not long before their departure to the Dons.
Paterson and Shearer left Aberdeen after around eighteen months. His next managerial post was with Highland League side Forres Mechanics, which he left in the summer of 2006. On 30 October 2006, he was announced as the new manager of Peterhead, a position from which he was eventually dismissed on 10 January 2008. In March 2011, Paterson left his post at Huntly FC to take up the managers post at Formartine United.
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