Andrew McCreadie

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Andrew McCreadie
Personnel
birthday November 19, 1870
place of birth Girvan ,  Scotland
date of death 1916
size 165 cm
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1890-1894 Glasgow Rangers 66 (10)
1894-1895 Sunderland AFC 27 0(7)
1895-1899 Glasgow Rangers 22 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1893-1894 Scotland 2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Andrew McCreadie (born November 19, 1870 in Girvan , † 1916 ) was a Scottish football player . In his playing career, he won the Scottish and English championships once each in the 1890s . There were also three cup wins and winning the British Home Championship with the Scottish national team.

Career

society

Andrew McCreadie was born in Girvan in southwest Scotland in 1870. From 1890 he played for the Glasgow Rangers . In the first season of the Scottish Football League , the Rangers won with McCreadie as a regular player, the Scottish Championship , which was shared with the same points FC Dumbarton . In the following seasons he was an integral part of the team with which he won the Scottish Cup for the Rangers for the first time in 1894 . In the Old Firm final, his brother Hugh McCreadie scored in a 3-1 win over Celtic . Although the only 165 cm tall McCreadie acted in the position of the defender, he scored ten times in four seasons in 66 games by 1894.

In the 1894/95 season he played for Sunderland AFC . With the club from the port city of the same name in northeast England, he won the championship five points ahead of Everton . McCreadie completed it 27 games and scored seven times.

After a year he went back to the Rangers, with whom he celebrated two more cup wins in 1897 and 1898 .

National team

Andrew McCreadie has two caps for Scotland . He made his debut on March 18, 1893 in an 8-0 away win against Wales . Another game followed in April 1894 in a 2-2 draw against England which helped win the British Home Championship .

family

His younger brother Hugh McCreadie was also active as a football player for the Glasgow Rangers.

successes

with the Glasgow Rangers
with Sunderland AFC
with Scotland

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on August 2, 2020
personal data
SURNAME McCreadie, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Girvan (Scotland) , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH 1916