Leigh Griffiths

Leigh Griffiths
Personnel
birthday	20th August 1990
place of birth	Edinburgh ,  Scotland
size	175 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	Leith Athletic
	Hibernian Edinburgh
	Hutchison Vale
0000-2006	Livingston FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2006-2009	Livingston FC	47 (22)
2009-2011	Dundee FC	47 (21)
2011-2014	Wolverhampton Wanderers	26 (12)
2011-2013	→  Hibernian Edinburgh  (loan)	66 (31)
2014–	Celtic Glasgow	151 (84)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2008-2009	Scotland U19	6 0(0)
2009–2012	Scotland U21	11 0(3)
2009	Scotland B	1 0(1)
2012-2018	Scotland	19 0(4)
1 Only league games are given. As of May 19, 2020

Leigh Griffiths (born August 20, 1990 in Edinburgh ) is a Scottish football player .

Career

Griffiths first played in the youth team of Leith Athletic before moving to the youth division of his favorite club, Hibernian Edinburgh . There his talent was recognized and promoted early on. However, after an argument with a teammate, he had to leave the club. Since then he has also been called "Sparky" (from Engl. To spark = to ignite, to kindle - because of his temperament). He then joined Hutchison Vale .

Finally, the First Division club FC Livingston signed him . At Livi , he made his first team debut at the age of 16 in the 3-1 defeat by Airdrie United on December 30, 2006, where he was substituted on shortly before the end of the game. After he came regularly to the course in the following 2007/08 season, he was able to secure a regular place in the 2008/09 season and brought it to 21 goals and nine assists and was voted Player of the Year in the First Division.

At the beginning of the 2009/10 season he moved to league rivals FC Dundee for £ 125,000 after financial problems at his club . There he spent about 1½ years before he signed a contract with Wolverhampton Wanderers in England for a term of 2½ years after 21 goals in 47 championship games shortly before the end of the winter transfer period on January 26, 2011 . Dundee FC also struggled with money problems during this period and was therefore forced to sell Griffiths. In August 2011 he was loaned back to Scotland to Hibernian Edinburgh , the club he had been a fan of since childhood.

National team

Griffiths was first nominated for Scotland's U-19 selection in 2008. In 2009 he was appointed as the youngest player to date in the B national team. There he got a template and a goal on his debut against the Northern Irish national B team.

Achievements and Awards

• Scotland's Footballer of the Year : 2016
• Scottish Premiership 2016 top scorer
• Scottish Football League First Division Player of the Year : 2009
• Scottish Champion : 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 , 2020
• Scottish Cup Winner : 2017 , 2018
• Scottish League Cup : 2015 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 , 2020

Web links

• Leigh Griffiths in the database of weltfussball.de
• Leigh Griffiths in the soccerbase.com database
• Scottish Football Association profile
• Leigh Griffiths reflects on greatest ever week West Lothian Courier, May 7, 2009
• Leigh Griffiths in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Livingston 1-3 Airdrie Utd. BBC Sport , December 30, 2006, accessed July 24, 2009 . 
2. ↑ Wolves To Complete Griffiths Deal ( Memento January 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/news/20110827/local-lad-joins-on-loan_2262950_2432889