Craig Coyle

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Craig Coyle
Personal information
Full name Craig Coyle
Date of birth (1980-09-06) 6 September 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth Edinburgh, Scotland
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
–1999 Salvesen B.C.
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1999–2001 Raith Rovers 6 (0)
2001–2005 Greenock Morton 119 (0)
2005 Arbroath 5 (0)
2005–2006 Berwick Rangers 13 (0)
2006–2009 Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic 0 (0)
2009–2010 Linlithgow Rose 0 (0)
2010–2011 Penicuik Athletic 0 (0)
2014 Hamilton Academical 0 (0)
2016-2017 Penicuik Athletic 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13:50, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Craig Coyle (born 6 September 1980 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish former footballer that played as a goalkeeper in the Scottish Football League for Raith Rovers, Greenock Morton, Arbroath, Berwick Rangers and is goalkeeper coach since 2012 at Hamilton Academical.

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Career

Coyle started his career at Raith Rovers playing seven times for the club. In August 2001, he signed for Greenock Morton. [1]

In March 2005, Coyle was released by Morton and signed for Arbroath until the end of the 2004–05 season. [2] At the end of the season he joined Third Division club Berwick Rangers. [3]

After leaving Berwick in 2006, Coyle joined the junior ranks moving to Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic [4] in the town of Bonnyrigg in Midlothian, where he won the Scottish Junior Football East Region Super League in the 2008–09 season. [5]

He then signed for Linlithgow Rose after leaving Bonnyrigg, [6] but decided to retire at the end of 2009. [7]

Coyle recently achieved his Goalkeeping Licence Diploma from the SFA.

He is now the goalkeeper coach at Hamilton Academical and was registered as a player in April 2014 as emergency cover for Kevin Cuthbert and Blair Currie.

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References

  1. ↑ "Morton set for survival party". The Scotsman. 4 August 2001. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "Coyle leaves Ton to join Arbroath". BBC Sport. 24 March 2005. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  3. ↑ "Double signing made by Berwick". BBC Sport. 19 July 2005. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "Rose add to squad with new keeper". The Scotsman. 10 July 2006. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  5. ↑ "Blow to Bonnyrigg Rose's championship hopes". Midlothian Advertiser. 5 February 2009. Retrieved 6 March 2009.
  6. ↑ "Flannery set for Bo'ness". The Scotsman. 30 July 2009. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  7. ↑ "Coyle calls it quits as glove affair with game ends". The Scotsman. 11 December 2009. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
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