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Andy Neil
Personal information
Full name Andrew Neil
Date of birth (1892-11-18)18 November 1892
Place of birth Crosshouse, Scotland
Date of death 14 August 1941(1941-08-14) (aged 48)
Place of death Kilmarnock, Scotland
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Position(s) Inside forward, wing half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
19??–1912 Ardeer Thistle
1912–1919 Kilmarnock 75 (32)
1912–1913 → Galston (loan)
1916 → Galston (loan)
1916–1917 → Stevenston United (loan)
1919–1920 Stevenston United
1920–1924 Brighton & Hove Albion 129 (22)
1924–1926 Arsenal 54 (10)
1926–1927 Brighton & Hove Albion 38 (6)
1927–1930 Queens Park Rangers 106 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Andrew Neil (18 November 1892 – 14 August 1941) was a Scottish professional footballer who made 75 appearances in Division One for Kilmarnock and 327 appearances in the English Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion (two spells), Arsenal and Queens Park Rangers. He played as an inside forward or wing half.

Life and career

Neil was born in Crosshouse, near Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. He joined Kilmarnock of Division One from junior club Ardeer Thistle, and made his debut on 12 April 1913 away to Motherwell. He played regularly in his second season, and in 1914–15, his 20 goals placed him sixth in the division's scoring charts.

Neil came south in 1920 to sign for Brighton & Hove Albion of the newly formed Football League Third Division. He was a regular at inside right, technically skilful and creative, and impressed to the extent that First Division club Arsenal paid a £3,000 fee – an Albion club record – for his services in March 1924. He was never a regular at Arsenal, but despite a lack of pace, was brought into the team at the insistence of captain Charlie Buchan to play a roving inside-forward role in front of a purely defensive centre half; the tactical change contributed to a runners-up finish in 1925–26. Although he had played 27 matches that season, Neil returned to Brighton in March 1926. He stayed until the 1927 close season, and then moved on to another third-tier club, Queens Park Rangers, where he played as a wing half until retiring in 1930 at the age of 37.

He then went back to Scotland and his original trade, as a baker. He died of a heart attack in Kilmarnock in 1941.

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Kilmarnock 1912–13 Division One 2 0 0 0 2 0
1913–14 Division One 32 12 2 1 34 13
1914–15 Division One 33 20 — 33 20
1915–16 Division One 5 0 — 5 0
1918–19 Division One 3 0 — 3 0
Total 75 32 2 1 77 33
Brighton & Hove Albion 1920–21 Third Division 18 2 3 0 21 2
1921–22 Third Division South 40 3 3 0 43 3
1922–23 Third Division South 42 10 5 1 47 11
1923–24 Third Division South 29 7 4 1 33 8
Total 129 22 15 2 144 24
Arsenal 1923–24 First Division 11 2 0 0 11 2
1924–25 First Division 16 2 0 0 16 2
1925–25 First Division 27 6 3 0 30 6
Total 54 10 3 0 57 10
Brighton & Hove Albion 1925–26 Third Division South 12 2 0 0 12 2
1926–27 Third Division South 26 4 3 0 29 4
Total 38 6 3 0 41 6
Queens Park Rangers 1927–28 Third Division South 41 1 1 0 42 1
1928–29 Third Division South 29 0 1 0 30 0
1929–30 Third Division South 36 0 4 0 40 0
Total 106 1 6 0 112 1
Career total 402 71 29 3 431 74
  1. Includes Scottish Cup, FA Cup

References

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  3. John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ "Kilmarnock: Andrew Neil". Fitbastats. Bobby Sinnet & Thomas Jamieson. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  5. Brown, Alan (22 March 2002). "Scotland 1914/15". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF). Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  6. Murray, Scott (2017). The Title: the Story of the First Division. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4729-3662-2.
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