Neil Kerr

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Neil Kerr
Personnel
birthday April 13, 1871
place of birth Bowling ,  Scotland
date of death 1901
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1887-1889 Cowlairs FC
1889-1894 Glasgow Rangers 58 (20)
1891 →  FC Dumbarton  (loan) 1 0(1)
1894-1895 Liverpool FC 12 0(3)
1895-1896 Nottingham Forest
1896-1897 FC Falkirk
1897-1899 Glasgow Rangers
1 Only league games are given.

Neil Kerr (born April 13, 1871 in bowling , † 1901 ) was a Scottish football player . In his playing career, he won the Scottish Championship and the Cup twice in the 1890s .

Career

Neil Kerr was born in Bowling about three miles southeast of Dumbarton in 1871 . From 1887 he played in Glasgow, which was about 16 km northwest of his native city, for the FC Cowlairs which had been founded by workers of the Cowlairs Railway . Kerr's greatest success with the club was reaching the 5th round of the Scottish Cup in 1888.

A year later he moved to the Glasgow Rangers . In January 1891 he played once in the jersey of FC Dumbarton and scored in a 5-0 victory over FC Cambuslang . With the Rangers he won the Scottish Championship in the 1890/91 season, which was shared with Dumbarton. In February 1894 he won the Scottish Cup with the Rangers . In the final against Celtic , however, Kerr was not used. In the league, Kerr came for the Rangers in four seasons on 58 appearances in which he scored 20 goals.

On June 4, 1894, Kerr signed a contract with the English first division promoted Liverpool FC . He made his debut on September 13, 1894 in a 2-1 home defeat by Bolton Wanderers . A month later he scored his first goal when he scored a 1-0 lead in a 2-2 draw against Sheffield United . In 12 games, Kerr scored a total of three times, Liverpool were relegated after a year.

He then moved to Nottingham Forest for the 1895/96 season . With the club, he finished thirteenth in the table in the first division. After spending a year in Nottingham, he went back to Scotland. First he played for a year at FC Falkirk in a lower league until he played again for the Glasgow Rangers between 1897 and 1899. With these he won the cup again in 1898 and the championship in 1899 .

successes

with the Glasgow Rangers
with FC Dumbarton

(* shared championship)

Web links

  • Neil Kerr in the Liverpool FC History database
  • Neil Kerr in the Dumbarton Football Club Historical Archive database
personal data
SURNAME Kerr, Neil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Bowling (Scotland) , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH 1901