Matt Gillies

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Matthew Muirhead Gillies (12 August 1921 – 1998) was a Scottish football player and manager.

Gillies played for Motherwell, Bolton Wanderers and Leicester City. He was later manager of Leicester from 1959 to 1968. He took charge of a total 437 games, the most of any manager in the club's history. He led Leicester to their first major trophy success, the League Cup in 1964, and took them to three other cup finals: the FA Cup in 1961 and 1963, and the League Cup in 1965, though they lost in the latter three.

He died in Nottingham in December 1998 at the age of 77.