Charlie Telfer

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Charlie Telfer
Personal information
Date of birth (1995-07-04) 4 July 1995 (age 28)
Place of birth Carluke, Scotland
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Airdrieonians
Number 21
Youth career
2003–2014 Rangers
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2013–2014 Rangers 1 (0)
2014–2017 Dundee United 53 (4)
2016 → Livingston (loan) 13 (0)
2017–2018 Almere City 8 (0)
2018–2019 Greenock Morton 29 (5)
2019–2022 Falkirk 79 (13)
2022– Airdrieonians 62 (4)
International career‡
2011–2012 Scotland U17 6 (1)
2013–2014 Scotland U19 5 (0)
2015 Scotland U21 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:43, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 June 2018

Charlie Telfer (born 4 July 1995) is a Scottish midfielder who plays for Airdrieonians.

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He began his career with Rangers before a transfer to Dundee United in June 2014. He joined Livingston on loan in January 2016 for the rest of the 2015–16 season. After he was released by Dundee United, he joined Dutch club Almere City in August 2017. He returned to Scotland in 2018, spending one season at Greenock Morton, before joining Falkirk in 2019. After bring released from Falkirk at the end of the 2021/2022 season he then signed for Airdrieonians in September 2022.

Telfer represented Scotland at under-17, under-19 and under-21 level.

Early life

Telfer was born in Carluke and grew up supporting Rangers. [1] He joined the club as a youth player after being spotted at a Football in the Community course at Bell College, Hamilton, when he was eight. [2]

Club career

Rangers

After progressing through the Rangers academy, Telfer signed his first professional contract with the club in November 2011. [2] He would make one competitive first team appearance for the club against Stenhousemuir in April 2014. [3] On 13 May 2014, he was in the Rangers side that won the Scottish Youth Cup beating Hearts 8–7 on penalties following a 2–2 draw, at St Mirren Park. [4] Telfer later describe playing in the Scottish Youth Cup Final as his biggest game of his life. [5]

At the end of the 2013–14 season, Telfer's future at Rangers appeared to be in doubt when Dundee United were reported to be keen to sign him. [6] Dundee United then made a £50,000 bid to sign Telfer, which was rejected by Rangers, who offered him a new contract. [7] [8]

Dundee United

After rejecting the offer of a new contract with Rangers, Telfer signed for Dundee United in June 2014, with a compensation payment still to be agreed between the clubs. [9] Telfer's departure from Rangers was commented on by the club's manager Ally McCoist, who described him as a "great prospect" and said that the club had wanted to keep him but it had been Telfer's decision to leave. [1] The level of compensation to be paid was set by an independent tribunal, [10] with Dundee United paying £200,000 to Rangers in January 2015. [11]

He made his Dundee United debut as a substitute against Aberdeen in the opening match of the 2014–15 season, [12] and scored his first goal for the club in a 3–0 win over St Mirren on 1 November 2014. [13] Telfer was named as SPFL Young Player of the Month for November 2014. [14] On 1 January 2015 he scored United's sixth goal in a 6–2 Dundee derby victory over local rivals Dundee. [15] This was followed by two goals against Motherwell later that month. [16] Telfer was a substitute for the 2015 Scottish League Cup Final, but was unused as Dundee United lost 2–0 to Celtic. [17] He made 25 appearances and scored 4 times in his first season at the club.

Having been unable to gain a regular place in the Dundee United team, Telfer moved on loan to Scottish Championship side Livingston in January 2016 until the end of the 2015–16 season. [18]

Telfer was released by United on 5 June 2017.

Almere City

Telfer signed for Dutch club Almere City in August 2017 on a one-year contract. [19]

He had been training with Dumbarton and Bolton Wanderers; rejecting a contract at the Macron Stadium to move to the Netherlands. [20]

Greenock Morton

Telfer signed a one-year contract with Scottish Championship club Greenock Morton in June 2018. [21] He went on to make 29 league appearances, 24 of them in the starting line-up. Morton manager Jonatan Johansson and his assistant Peter Houston walked out on the club before the final game of the season in May 2019, claiming that chairman Crawford Rae had told them not to select Telfer, as one further appearance would trigger an automatic contract extension. Rae subsequently suggested that Telfer could still be offered a new contract once a replacement manager was appointed. [22]

Falkirk

On 18 June 2019, Telfer signed for Falkirk on a two-year contract. [23] At the end an injury-hit 2020–21 season, Telfer signed a further one-year contract with the club. [24] After three years at Falkirk, he left at the end of his contract in May 2022.

Airdrieonians

Following a trial spell with Airdrieonians, Telfer signed a contract with the club in September 2022. [25] Telfer played a key role in helping Airdrieonians gain promotion back to the Scottish Championship via the play-offs at the end of season 2022-23.

International career

Telfer has represented Scotland at under-17, under-19 and under-21 level. [26] [27] [28]

Career statistics

As of match played 17 September 2019
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational Cup League Cup OtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Rangers 2013–14 [29] Scottish League One 1000000010
Dundee United 2014–15 [30] Scottish Premiership 214301000254
2015–16 [31] Scottish Premiership 7000100080
2016–17 [32] Scottish Championship 25010309 [lower-alpha 1] 2382
Total534405092715
Livingston (loan) 2015–16 [31] Scottish Championship 13000002 [lower-alpha 2] 0150
Almere City 2017–18 [33] Eerste Divisie 8010—0090
Greenock Morton 2018–19 [34] Scottish Championship 295203000345
Falkirk 2019–20 [35] Scottish League One 5100402 [lower-alpha 3] 0111
Career total109107012013214112
  1. ↑ Four appearances and two goals in the Scottish Challenge Cup and five appearances in the Scottish Premiership play-offs
  2. ↑ Appearances in the Scottish Championship play-offs
  3. ↑ Appearances in the Scottish Challenge Cup

Honours

Club

Rangers
Dundee United

Individual

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