Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 13 May 1926 | ||
Place of birth | Dundee, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 16 August 2015 | (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) [1] [2] was a Scottish footballer, who played for Dundee [3] and Falkirk. [4] Merchant scored one of the goals as Falkirk won the 1957 Scottish Cup Final. [2] After retiring as a football player, he became a football coach at Dunfermline Athletic and set up a printing business. [1]
On 16 August 2015, Merchant died in a nursing home in Carnoustie. [5]
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 13 May 1926 | ||
Place of birth | Dundee, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 16 August 2015 | (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) [1] [2] was a Scottish footballer, who played for Dundee [3] and Falkirk. [4] Merchant scored one of the goals as Falkirk won the 1957 Scottish Cup Final. [2] After retiring as a football player, he became a football coach at Dunfermline Athletic and set up a printing business. [1]
On 16 August 2015, Merchant died in a nursing home in Carnoustie. [5]