Dundee United Clark was born in
Edinburgh and joined
Dundee United in 1976 and began to play for the reserves as a forward where he scored over 100 goals. That same season United also lost the
1987 Scottish Cup Final to St Mirren as they also did the season after to Celtic. Clark remained a regular in the Tannadice defence for the late 1980s and early 1990s making 330 appearances scoring 37 goals.
Stoke City He moved to English club
Stoke City in January 1994. Clark started his Stoke against
Barnsley in a 3–0 defeat. He ended the
1993–94 season with 12 appearances. In
1994–95 Clark played in six matches and scored his only goal for Stoke which came in a 2–0 victory over
Cesena in the
Anglo-Italian Cup. When
Lou Macari replaced
Joe Jordan as manager in September 1994 Clark returned to Scotland.
Later career Clark next joined
Falkirk before transferring part way through his second season to
Dunfermline. He had short spells also playing for
Ayr United,
Ross County and
Berwick Rangers. He became Assistant Manager at Berwick. Clark then dropped out of senior football with
Gala Fairydean where he became player-manager. He became manager of
Whitehill Welfare in 2004. ==Career statistics==