Graham Leggat

Graham Leggat (20 June 1934 – 29 August 2015) was a Scottish international footballer. He mainly played as a right winger for Aberdeen and Fulham, and is a member of the Aberdeen Hall of Fame.^[4] He was also capped 18 times for Scotland, and played for them at the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

Graham Leggat

Leggat with Fulham in 1958
Personal information
Full name	Graham Leggat[1]
Date of birth	(1934-06-20)20 June 1934
Place of birth	Aberdeen, Scotland
Date of death	29 August 2015(2015-08-29) (aged 81)
Place of death	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Position(s)	Right winger
Youth career
	Banks O'Dee
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1953–1958	Aberdeen	109	(64)
1958–1966	Fulham	254	(127)
1966–1967	Birmingham City	15	(3)
1968	Rotherham United	16	(7)
1970	Bromsgrove Rovers
1971	Toronto Metros	11	(2)
Total		405	(203)
International career
1954–1957	Scottish Football League XI[2]	5	(6)
1956–1960	Scotland	18	(8)
1959[3]	SFA trial v SFL	1	(0)
Managerial career
1971–1972	Toronto Metros
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leggat held the record for the fastest hat-trick in the English league system, when he scored three goals in three minutes in a 10–1 win against Ipswich Town on 26 December 1963.^[5] This record was broken in May 2015 by Southampton winger Sadio Mané.^[5]

In 1971, he emigrated to Canada to work at the Toronto Metros. He would later become the vice-president and managing director of the Edmonton Drillers between 1979 and 1980.^[6] He also worked as an analyst for the CBC, where he covered the 1976 Summer Olympics and the FIFA World Cup. After leaving the CBC, he became the host of TSN's Soccer Saturday program. He was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame in 2001.

Leggat died in August 2015, aged 81.^[7] His son, also named Graham Leggat, was the executive director of the San Francisco Film Society between October 2005 until his death in August 2011.^[8]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National cup[a]		League cup[b]		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Aberdeen[9]	1953–54	Scottish Division One	26	15	5	4	0	0	—		31	19
	1954–55		26	11	5	0	5	2	—		36	13
	1955–56		18	19	1	1	10	9	—		29	29
	1956–57		24	12	2	1	5	3	—		31	16
	1957–58		15	7	3	1	6	7	—		24	15
	Total		109	64	16	7	26	21	—		151	92
Fulham[10]	1958–59	Second Division	36	21	4	1	—		—		40	22
	1959–60	First Division	28	18	2	2	—		—		30	20
	1960–61		36	23	0	0	0	0	—		36	23
	1961–62		31	14	8	1	0	0	—		39	15
	1962–63		33	10	1	0	1	0	—		35	10
	1963–64		25	15	2	1	1	0	—		28	16
	1964–65		17	4	0	0	2	0	—		19	4
	1965–66		33	16	1	0	3	0	—		37	16
	1966–67		15	8	0	0	1	2	—		16	10
	Total		254	129	18	5	8	2	—		280	136
Birmingham City[11]	1966–67	Second Division	9	1	3	0	0	0	—		12	1
	1967–68		7	2	0	0	0	0	—		7	2
	Total		16	3	3	0	0	0	—		19	3
Rotherham United[12]	1968–69	Third Division	16	7	2	0	1	0	—		19	7
Bromsgrove Rovers[13]	1969–70	West Midlands (Regional) League	8	6	0	0	—		1[c]	0	9	6
Toronto Metros[14]	1971	North American Soccer League	11	2	—		—				11	2
Career total			414	211	39	12	35	23	1	0	489	246

1. Includes Scottish Cup, FA Cup
2. Includes Scottish League Cup, Football League Cup
3. Appearance in Midland Floodlit League

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year^[15]

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Scotland	1956	2	1
	1957	1	1
	1958	6	1
	1959	5	4
	1960	4	1
Total		18	8

International goals

Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Leggat goal.

List of international goals scored by Graham Leggat^[16]

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	14 April 1956	Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland	England	1–0	1–1	1955–56 British Home Championship
2	5 October 1957	Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland	1–1	1–1	1957–58 British Home Championship
3	18 October 1958	Ninian Park, Cardiff, Wales	Wales	1–0	3–0	1958–59 British Home Championship
4	6 May 1959	Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland	West Germany	3–1	3–2	Friendly
5	27 May 1959	Olympisch Stadion, Netherlands	Netherlands	2–1	2–1	Friendly
6	3 October 1959	Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland	1–0	4–0	1959–60 British Home Championship
7	4 November 1959	Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland	Wales	1–1	1–1	1960 British Home Championship
8	19 April 1960	Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland	England	1–0	1–1	1960 British Home Championship

Honours

Aberdeen

• Scottish Division One: 1954–55
• Scottish League Cup: 1955–56

Scotland

• British Home Championship: 1955–56 (shared), 1959–60 (shared)