5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Alex Ferguson is commonly listed at 5 ft 11 in (180 cm).
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Alex Ferguson’s 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) is a little above average for a US man: about 74 in 100 US men are shorter.
Alex Ferguson is in the middle of the 207 association football players we have heights for: Jan Koller (6 ft 7.5 in) stands 8.5 in (22 cm) taller and Chanathip Songkrasin (5 ft 2 in) is 8.5 in (22 cm) shorter. All 207 ranked, tallest first.
Also listed at 5 ft 11 in: Alex Iwobi and Fabien Barthez.
A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Photo: Austin Osuide, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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