| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Wilkie [1] | ||
| Date of birth | 1876 | ||
| Place of birth | Govan, Scotland [1] | ||
| Position | Inside Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Summertown Athletic [2] | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1894–1895 | Partick Thistle | 21 | (9) |
| 1895–1898 | Blackburn Rovers | 75 | (17) |
| 1898–1902 | Rangers | 28 | (11) |
| 1900–1901 | → Middlesbrough (loan) | 28 | (8) |
| 1903–1905 | Partick Thistle | 31 | (11) |
| 1905–1906 | Hibernian | 7 | (2) |
| 1906 | → Ayr Parkhouse (loan) | ||
| Total | 190 | (58) | |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
John Wilkie was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Blackburn Rovers and Middlesbrough. [3]
He began his career with Partick Thistle, and returned to the club eight years later for a second spell. [2] [4] He played alongside former Jags left-wing teammate John Campbell at Blackburn and Rangers, [5] and would do so again briefly at Hibernian. [6]
At Rangers, he had a minor role in the club's perfect season of 1898–99 (18 league wins from 18 matches) and played more often as they retained the SFL title in 1899–1900, and in a third championship season in 1901–02. He also claimed Glasgow Cup medals in the latter two seasons. [5]
Wilkie was selected for the Home Scots v Anglo-Scots international trial match in 1898 while with Blackburn, [7] and again in 1904 while with Partick, [8] but this did not lead to a cap for Scotland on either occasion.