Peter Neil

Peter Neil
Personal information
Full name Peter Gibson Neil
Date of birth 1898
Place of birth Airdrie, Scotland[1]
Date of death 1976
Place of death Cambuslang, Scotland
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[2]
Position(s) Outside right
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1919–1920 Cambuslang Rangers
1920–1921 East Fife
1921–1922 Birmingham 5 (0)
1922–1923 Heart of Midlothian 7 (0)
1923 East Fife 8 (1)
1923–1924 Alloa Athletic 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Peter Gibson Neil (1898 – 1976) was a Scottish footballer who played in the English Football League for Birmingham.[3] He played mainly as an outside right.

Neil was born in Airdrie but spent much of his life in Cambuslang, both in Lanarkshire. With his teenage years interrupted by World War I, he began his career with local junior side Cambuslang Rangers at the end of the conflict and soon moved on East Fife, then playing in the Central League, and was in the team that won the Scottish Qualifying Cup.[4][5] He joined Birmingham from East Fife in April 1921,[6] and made his debut in the First Division on 17 September 1921 in a 1–1 draw at home to Everton. He made four more appearances during the 1921–22 season, on each occasion deputising for Bill Harvey.[7]

Neil returned to Scotland in September 1922 to join Heart of Midlothian of Scottish Division One.[6][8] After less than a season in Edinburgh he switched to second tier Bo'ness, and at the end of 1923 transferred to Alloa Athletic, his final club before retiring.[9]

  1. ^ Statutory registers – Births – Search results, ScotlandsPeople. Retrieved 2 December 2021
  2. ^ Brum (22 August 1921). "First Division prospects. Birmingham". Athletic News. Manchester. p. 5.
  3. ^ Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
  4. ^ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ Scotland – List of Qualifying Cup Finals, James M. Ross, RSSSF, 15 December 2004
  6. ^ a b Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
  7. ^ Matthews, p. 164.
  8. ^ (Hearts player) Peter W Neil, London Hearts Supporters Club
  9. ^ Neil Peter Image 1 Heart of Midlothian 1922, Vintage Footballers