Dave Clelland

Dave Clelland
Personal information
Full name David Clelland[1]
Date of birth (1924-03-18)18 March 1924[1]
Place of birth Netherburn,[1] Scotland
Date of death 8 June 2004(2004-06-08) (aged 80)[1]
Place of death Whitburn, England
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[2]
Position(s) Outside right
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1946–1948 Arsenal 0 (0)
1948–1949 Brighton & Hove Albion 8 (1)
1949 Ipswich Town 0 (0)
1949 Crystal Palace 2 (0)
1949–1950 Weymouth
1950–1951 Scunthorpe United 16 (8)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David Clelland (18 March 1924 – 8 June 2004) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as an outside right in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion, Crystal Palace and Scunthorpe United.[1] He was on the books of Arsenal and Ipswich Town without playing for their first team,[2] and scored 11 goals from 26 appearances in all competitions for Southern League club Weymouth.[3]

After retiring from football in 1951, Clelland served in the Metropolitan Police.[4] He died in Whitburn, Tyne and Wear in 2004 at the age of 80.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Dave Clelland". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b Carder, Tim; Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-9521337-1-1.
  3. ^ "Player Archive". Weymouth F.C. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  4. ^ "The Iron Alphabet". Scunthorpe United F.C. Archived from the original on 13 October 2008.