Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 13 May 1926 | ||
Place of birth | Dundee, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 16 August 2015(2015-08-16) (aged 89) | ||
Place of death | Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
Dundee Stobswell | |||
Third Lanark | |||
Aberdeen | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1951–1957 | Dundee | 65 | (31) |
1957–1958 | Falkirk | 23 | (18) |
Total | 88 | (49) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
George Merchant (13 May 1926 – 16 August 2015) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Dundee and Falkirk. Merchant scored one of the goals as Falkirk won the 1957 Scottish Cup Final. After retiring as a football player, he became a football coach at Dunfermline Athletic and set up a printing business.
On 16 August 2015, Merchant died in a nursing home in Carnoustie.
References
- ^ Naysmith, Stephen (19 August 2015). "George Merchant". The Herald. Herald & Times Group. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ^ "GEORGE MERCHANT: 1926-2015". www.falkirkfc.co.uk. Falkirk FC. 17 August 2015. Archived from the original on 24 August 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- "DUNDEE : 1946/47 - 2013/14". Neil Brown. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- "FALKIRK : 1946/47 - 2013/14". Neil Brown. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- "Obituary: George Merchant, footballer". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
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