Dave Shearer

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Dave Shearer
Personal information
Full name David John Shearer[1]
Date of birth (1958-10-16)16 October 1958[1]
Place of birth Inverness,[1] Scotland
Date of death 3 July 2022(2022-07-03) (aged 63)
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[2]
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
19??–1978 Clachnacuddin
1978–1983 Middlesbrough 97 (32)
1980 → Wigan Athletic (loan) 11 (9)
1983–1984 Grimsby Town 4 (0)
1984–1987 Gillingham 93 (42)
1987–1988 AFC Bournemouth 11 (3)
1988 Scunthorpe United 16 (7)
1988–19?? Darlington 7 (0)
1989–1993 Billingham Synthonia 78 (30)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David John Shearer (16 October 1958 – 3 July 2022)[3] was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a forward.

Although he had trials with Greenock Morton as a teenager, Shearer continued to play locally in his home Fort William area in the Scottish North West Highlands, before signing as a part time professional with senior Inverness-based football club Clachnacuddin in the Highland Football League. His other professional clubs, all in the English Football League, included Middlesbrough, Scunthorpe United and Gillingham.[4]

He made over 230 Football League appearances. He was the older brother of fellow former professional and Highland Football League player Duncan Shearer.

  1. ^ a b c "David Shearer". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  2. ^ Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5.
  3. ^ "Former Gillingham striker Dave Shearer dies at the age of 63". /www.kentonline.co.uk. 5 July 2022.
  4. ^ Triggs, Roger (2001). The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club. Tempus Publishing Ltd. pp. 289–290. ISBN 0-7524-2243-X.