Full name | Rangers Football Club Academy | |||
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Nickname(s) | Rangers Colts | |||
Ground | Rangers Training Centre, [1] Milngavie | |||
Website | http://www.rangers.co.uk | |||
In addition to their senior squad, Rangers Football Club also operate a football Academy which contains a number of football teams culminating in a B team, which plays friendly challenge matches against various domestic and European sides in accordance with the academy's development plan, having declined the option to continue in the SPFL Reserve League despite winning the competition in 2019. Historically, the club's second side was known as the Rangers Swifts.
In the 2006–07 season, the under-20s won their league and the Scottish Youth Cup, ending rivals Celtic's run of six consecutive league titles and defeating them 5–0 in the final of the Youth Cup at Hampden Park. In 2019, the Rangers under-18 team qualified for the UEFA Youth League for the first time. Underage teams also take part in the Scottish Challenge Cup and the Glasgow Cup.
Rangers' first known involvement in reserve league football was in 1895 when their club secretary William Wilton initiated the setting up of the Scottish Reserve League. [2] [3] The competition comprised the reserve sides of five clubs; Rangers, Celtic, Hearts, Leith Athletic and the Queens Park Strollers. In July 1896 the league was expanded to 10 sides, and renamed the Scottish Combination league. [3] In 1909, a new Scottish Reserve League was set up, often including at least one non-reserve side of a non-league club in each of its seasons. [2] The league was disbanded during World War I, but effectively re-established in 1919 as the Scottish Alliance League. As with previous incarnations, this reserve league also contained the first XI of several non-league sides. [2] An AGM in 1938, resulted in the non-league sides being removed and the league became exclusive to First Division reserve sides. The advent of World War II, however, once again saw the suspension of national reserve league football in Scotland, although regional leagues were set up. [2] [4]
Upon the outbreak of the Second World War, all competitive football in Scotland was suspended. During this time there was special wartime football in the form of regional league competitions with Rangers playing in the Southern League. The regionalisation also saw Scottish reserve football postponed as the war effort put a major strain on the resources and playing staff of clubs with many of them serving in the Armed forces and some seeing active service abroad. The reserve side were crowned champions of their league in 1939 before seeing the following season abandoned.
With the end of hostilities in 1946, Rangers returned to play competitive football again with the reserve side featuring in the Scottish Reserve League. This was to continue unchanged for almost three decades until the first of many reconstructions were made to football in Scotland.
The formation of the Scottish Premier League in 1998, resulted in a significant change in youth team football in Scotland. The SPL began a league for members clubs youth players aged under-18. This was alongside the Reserve league, which had been revamped into a league primarily for under-21 players. Rangers would go on to win the under-18 league three times, first in 2001–02 then in 2006–07 and most recently in 2007–08.
The opening of Rangers Training Centre (known as Murray Park) in 2001 was the one of the first stages in the club's move to develop a football academy. Although the nomenclature was not present at that time, Rangers did begin to focus upon youth development and under the then first-team manager Dick Advocaat the club appointed its first Head of Youth Development, Jan Derks, in March 2000. Derks new role was strategic and operational and saw him lay the foundations for the club's academy as well as helping the transition of the youth set-up to the new training centre. Prior to this, the club had employed a youth development officer, with their focus being solely scouting and coaching. [5] Derks remained in position for three years despite former player Tommy McLean being recruited as his presumptive successor in May 2001 [6] and Rangers eventually appointed former Aberdeen scout George Adams to succeed Derks in February 2003. [7]
As the scope of the youth department grew, so did its costs, so on 20 April 2004, Rangers announced the creation of a new company which would oversee the development of the club's youth players. [8] The company, named Rangers Youth Development Limited, was entirely self-funding but completely owned by the club. It attracted four investors from outside Rangers who have invested £1 million, with the club also putting up an initial £2.5 million. [8] It led to Rangers F.C. being in the unfamiliar position of buying its own youth players from Rangers Youth Development Ltd. [8] [9] The Youth Development company owned the young players and the club had to bid for them, although it had first option on all the players. If both sides cannot reach an agreement on a transfer fee then a FIFA transfer model will be used. [8] Any profit made by the company will be divided between investors with the majority being invested to fund more youth players. [10] The main reason for the formation of the company was to offset the running costs of the club's training centre. [8] However, many of the Rangers fans were opposed to the formation of the new company. [11] The activities of Rangers Youth Development Ltd were largely unnoticed and the company was dissolved after submitting its final set of accounts in June 2010.
In September 2005, as part of a restructuring of the club management, Adams left his role as director of youth football. [12] The moves also saw future Academy heads take over responsibility for youth administration. [12] In May 2017, the club announced its intention to withdraw from the SPFL Development League and play a programme of matches against a mixture of English and European Academies, as well as sides from League One and League Two in Scotland. [13]
In July 2018, it was reported that reserve leagues would be reintroduced in lieu of the development leagues that had been in place since 2009. The top tier of the new SPFL Reserve League featured 18 clubs, whilst a second-tier reserve League comprised nine clubs. Other than a minimum age of 16, no age restrictions applied to the leagues. [14] At the end of its first season (2018–19) which Rangers entered and won, the club – along with several others – intimated that they would withdraw from the Reserve League to play a variety of challenge matches, in a similar manner as two years earlier. [15] They later entered a small league (under-21 plus three overage) along with three other Scottish clubs and Brentford and Huddersfield Town from the English leagues. [16]
In May 2021, it was reported that Rangers (and Celtic) were in 'productive' talks with the Lowland Football League (the fifth tier of the senior setup) to have colt teams playing in their division for the following season, [17] with an earlier proposal to include them in an expanded Scottish League Two (fourth tier) [18] still under consideration by the SPFL for the year after that. [19]
The Academy is responsible for providing players for the Rangers first-team and is divided into four areas. Between under-11 and under-12 level, the teams play in a seven-a-side football competition, although the latter side transitions to 11-a-side after Christmas. [20] Thereafter, the under-12s and under-13s play on a modified pitch which is slightly smaller with reduced sized goals than regulation play [20] but from under-14 level onward all Academy teams play on normal pitches. All players from under-8 to under-15 are schoolboys, however, from Senior level many sign contracts to become professional youth players. [20] The U11 to U17 age groups play in the SFA Club Academy Scotland programme at ‘Elite’ level.
In 2017, the Rangers academy was one of eight across the country designated 'elite' status on the introduction of Project Brave, an SFA initiative to concentrate the development of the best young players at a smaller number of clubs with high quality facilities and coaching than was previously the case. [21] [22]
Rangers operate a North American Academy, which began in 2014, [23] and have thirteen partner clubs across the United States and Canada. [24]
The academy has a partnership with Coerver Coaching who deliver Coerver method skills coaching to the Children's section on a weekly basis. [25] On 18 December 2015, Rangers announced a coaching and development partnership with Scottish Lowland League club Gala Fairydean Rovers which effectively saw the Galashiels side act as a feeder to Rangers. [26] In June 2016, Rangers announced a partnership with East Dunbartonshire council which saw 24 of the club's youth players aged 11 to 15 attend Boclair Academy (located a short distance from the Auchenhowie complex) allowing them to combine their academic and football studies. [27]
Rangers were members of the Scottish Premier Reserve League from its foundation in the 1998–99 season until 2012. As the Scottish Premier League was considering disbanding its Scottish Premier Reserve League for the 2009–10 season, [28] Rangers announced it was withdrawing its reserve team in order to play friendly games instead. [29] After Rangers demotion to the Scottish Third Division in 2012, [30] the club entered a reserve team into the Scottish Football League Reserve League [31] and the side went on to win the competition. [32] The league ended after the formation of the SPFL, with a development league for under-20's teams taking its place and the club's reserve side was disbanded.
A youth league was founded for under-18s in 1998 as an alternative to the Scottish Premier Reserve League which originally was for under-21s. The former competition was widened to include under-19s in 2003. Rangers were removed from the under-19 league after the club's demotion to the Scottish Third Division [30] in 2012, with youth players featuring in the 2012-13 SFL Reserve league instead. The formation of the Scottish Professional Football League in the 2013–14 season, saw the formation of an under-20s league with the number of teams increased to 16 [33] and teams were allowed to field two over-age outfield players and an overage goalkeeper. [34] The league was renamed the SPFL Development League in 2014, with the number of teams increased to 17. [35]
Rangers youth sides play in a number of cup competitions including the Glasgow Cup and Scottish Youth Cup. From 2015 onwards it is also possible for the Academy to participate in the UEFA Youth League by the Under-18 side winning the previous season's league at that age level, or by the senior team reaching the UEFA Champions League group stages; this was achieved in 2019 via the first route. [36] In the 2019–20 UEFA Youth League, Rangers defeated BSC Young Boys of Switzerland in the opening round on away goals after a 5–5 result on aggregate, [37] and eliminated Slovakians Slovan Bratislava 4–1 in the next. [38]
In June 2016, it was announced by the SPFL that the Challenge Cup would be expanded to include teams from the Welsh Premier League, Northern Irish Premiership and an Under-20s side from each Scottish Premiership club. [39] In the 2016–17 edition, Rangers U20 won their opening tie against Stirling University F.C. of the Lowland League [a] but lost in the next round to Stenhousemuir of the third level. In the 2019–20 edition, they travelled to Northern Ireland and defeated Ballymena United who had been NIFL runners-up in the previous season, [40] then knocked out Solihull Moors of the English National League, again away from home, this time on penalties. [41] In the quarter-finals, they beat Wrexham from the same league at Ibrox, [42] with many of the same players also involved in a 5–0 win over Celtic in the Scottish Youth Cup a few days earlier [43] and in the Youth League victory over Slovan ten days later. They were drawn away to Inverness CT in the semi-finals, meaning the Wrexham match would be their only home fixture in the competition, with two ties in England, one in Northern Ireland and one in the Scottish Highlands 170 kilometres (110 mi) from Glasgow. They lost 2–1 to Inverness, but also set a new record by going further than any reserve side had previously gone in the competition. [44] A few days earlier, Rangers' run in the UEFA Youth League also came to an end with a 4–0 defeat to Atlético Madrid. [45]
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Rangers reserve side, in its various guises, has had several managers and coaches during its operation. For many years the long standing name of the second string was the Reserve team, however, due to internal restructuring it was more recently known as the Under-20 team, then the Development squad and currently B team. As consequently the title of the manager overseeing the team changed to reflect this. Below is a list of individuals who oversaw the reserve side since approximately 1983.
Name | From | To | Tenure | Title |
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John Hagart | November 1983 | 7 April 1986 | 2 years, 5 months | Reserves manager |
Don Mackay | 16 April 1986 | 3 February 1987 [47] | 293 days | Reserves manager |
Peter McCloy | 3 February 1987 | 1 March 1987 | 26 days | Reserves coach |
Jimmy Nicholl | 1 March 1987 | 30 June 1989 | 2 years, 121 days | Reserves coach |
Davie Dodds and John McGregor | June 1989 | October 1991 | 2 years, 4 months | Joint Reserves coaches |
John McGregor | October 1991 | 1 March 2003 [48] | 12 years | Reserves coach |
John Brown | 1 March 2003 [48] | 27 June 2006 [49] | 3 years, 118 days | Reserves coach |
Ian Durrant | 27 June 2006 [49] | 30 June 2008 | 2 years, 3 days | Reserves coach |
Tommy Wilson | 30 June 2008 | 14 March 2013 [50] | 4 years, 257 days | Reserves Manager |
Billy Kirkwood (Interim) | 14 March 2013 | 2 July 2013 | 110 days | Senior Academy manager |
Gordon Durie | 2 July 2013 [51] | 23 December 2014 [52] | 1 year, 174 days | Under-20s coach |
Ian Durrant | 23 December 2014 [52] | 9 June 2016 [53] | 1 year, 169 days | Under-20s coach |
Graeme Murty | 22 August 2016 [54] | 26 October 2017 [55] | 1 year, 65 days | Head Development squad coach |
Billy Kirkwood (Interim) | 26 October 2017 | 6 June 2018 | 223 days | Head Development Squad coach |
Graeme Murty | 6 June 2018 [56] | 30 June 2020 | 2 years, 24 days | Head Development Squad coach |
Kevin Thomson Brian Gilmour | 30 June 2020 [57] | 1 July 2021 | 1 year, 1 day | Joint B-Team coaches |
David McCallum Brian Gilmour | 1 July 2021 | 1 October 2023 | 3 years, 92 days | Joint B-Team coaches |
David McCallum | 1 October 2023 [58] | 1 year, 122 days | B-Team coach |
As of 1 January 2025 [59]
Position | Name |
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Academy director | Vacant |
Head of academy football | Zurab Amirian |
Head of academy scouting and recruitment | James Fowler |
B team head coach | David McCallum |
B team assistant coach | Malky Thomson |
U18 head coach | Steven Smith |
U18 assistant coach | Jonatan Johansson |
Lead PDP performance coach | Liam Ross |
Lead youth development phase and Boclair Academy coach | Greg Statt |
U15/16 lead coach | Laurie Ellis |
U14 coach | Lewis Macleod |
U11/U12 lead foundation phase coach | John Lawson |
Foundation phase coaches | Marc McGhee Michael McPake |
Head of academy goalkeeping | Conor Brennan |
Goalkeeping coaches | Derek Gaston Alan Karas |
Academy physiotherapists | Katie Gough Tara Harvey |
Head of academy sports science | Jamie Ramsden |
Academy manager girls & women’s department | Todd Lumsden |
Head of children's academy | Alan Boyd |
Head of soccer academies & international relations | Gary Gibson |
International soccer academy manager | Iain Greer |
With the opening of the club's training facility for its youth and first teams, it was hoped that this would spell a new chapter in player development for the club. [67] However, expectations of an instant success were not accurate and with reported running costs of the facility equalling £1.5m, [67] many commentators asked if the investment in the training ground and youth department was worthwhile. [68]
The combined transfer fees for all Academy graduates is, to date, approximately £30m. This includes the transfer of Nathan Patterson, the single largest fee received in the club's history for any player. [69] Some of the other transfers that have commanded fees were in the form of compensation. The list below includes players who have been schooled at the club's Academy and have commanded a transfer upon their departure.
First-team graduates transfer fees received | ||||||
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# | Name and nationality | Date of transfer | New club | Initial fee | Add ons | Total fee |
1 | Steven MacLean | 7 July 2004 | Sheffield Wednesday | £0.125m [70] | £0.125m | |
2 | Hamed Namouchi | 31 August 2006 | Lorient | £0.5m [71] | £0.5m | |
3 | Alan Hutton | 30 January 2008 | Tottenham Hotspur | £9m [69] | £9m | |
4 | Dean Furman | 1 June 2009 | Oldham Athletic | £0.05m [72] | £0.05m | |
5 | Charlie Adam | 4 August 2009 | Blackpool | £0.5m [73] | [74] | £1.35m |
6 | Danny Wilson | 21 July 2010 | Liverpool | £2m [75] | £4.7m | |
7 | Dylan McGeouch | 15 May 2011 | Celtic | £0.1m [76] | £0.1m | |
8 | Thomas Kind Bendiksen | 1 January 2012 | Tromsø | £0.25m [77] | £0.25m | |
9 | Charlie Telfer | 31 May 2014 | Dundee United | £0.204m [78] | £0.204m | |
10 | Lewis Macleod | 1 January 2015 | Brentford | £0.85m [79] | £0.85m | |
11 | Billy Gilmour | 1 July 2017 | Chelsea | £0.5m [80] [81] | [82] | £1.5m |
12 | Barrie McKay | 5 July 2017 | Nottingham Forest | £0.5m [83] | £0.5m | |
13 | Ryan Hardie | 17 July 2019 | Blackpool | £0.15m [84] | £0.15m | |
14 | Serge Atakayi | 30 December 2019 | SJK | £0.1m [85] | £0.1m | |
15 | Adedire Mebude | 3 August 2020 | Manchester City | £0.1m [86] [87] | [88] | £0.347m |
16 | Ross McCrorie | 1 February 2021 | Aberdeen | £0.35m [89] | [90] | £0.55m |
17 | Nathan Young-Coombes | 9 June 2022 | Brentford | £0.1m [91] [92] | £0.1m | |
18 | Nathan Patterson | 4 January 2022 | Everton | £11.5m [93] | £16m | |
19 | Rory Wilson | 4 July 2022 | Aston Villa | £0.35m [94] [95] | £0.35m | |
20 | Glenn Middleton | 29 July 2022 | Dundee United | £0.15m [96] | £0.15m | |
21 | Charlie McCann | 24 January 2023 | Forest Green Rovers | £0.35m [97] [98] | £0.35m |
Below is a list of players who made a first-team appearance for Rangers, whilst a youth team player at the club. This includes both players that have come through the club's Academy set-up and also young professional players signed for the Academy who then go on to play in the first-team. The list includes all youth team graduates from the opening of the Rangers Training Centre in 2001 to the present day.
Players in bold are currently at the club.
First-team graduates | |||||||
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# | Name and nationality | Date of debut | Age at debut | Apps | Goals | Pro debut | Int caps |
1 | Allan McGregor [99] | 24 February 2002 | 20 years, 24 days | 505 | 0 | ||
2 | Chris Burke [100] | 20 March 2002 | 18 years, 108 days | 131 | 14 | ||
3 | Tom Brighton [101] | 12 May 2002 | 18 years, 45 days | 1 | 0 | ||
4 | Andy Dowie [101] | 12 May 2002 | 19 years, 48 days | 1 | 0 | ||
5 | Alan Hutton [102] | 22 December 2002 | 18 years, 22 days | 122 | 4 | ||
6 | Steven MacLean [102] | 22 December 2002 | 20 years, 121 days | 4 | 0 | ||
7 | Darryl Duffy [103] | 28 October 2003 | 19 years, 195 days | 3 | 0 | ||
8 | Hamed Namouchi [104] | 10 January 2004 | 19 years, 330 days | 51 | 6 | ||
9 | Bajram Fetai | 23 March 2004 | 18 years, 198 days | 1 | 0 | ||
10 | Alex Walker | 4 April 2004 | 19 years, 345 days | 2 | 0 | ||
11 | Charlie Adam | 14 April 2004 | 18 years, 126 days | 88 | 18 | ||
12 | Gary MacKenzie [105] | 1 May 2004 | 18 years, 199 days | 2 | 0 | ||
13 | Ross McCormack [105] | 1 May 2004 | 17 years, 257 days | 14 | 4 | ||
14 | Bob Davidson | 16 May 2004 | 18 years, 52 days | 1 | 0 | ||
15 | Steven Smith | 28 November 2004 | 18 years, 90 days | 110 | 5 | ||
16 | Alan Lowing [106] | 20 September 2005 | 17 years, 256 days | 5 | 0 | ||
17 | Moses Ashikodi [107] | 23 April 2006 | 18 years, 300 days | 1 | 0 | ||
18 | Lee Robinson [108] | 7 May 2006 | 19 years, 309 days | 10 | 0 | ||
19 | William Stanger [109] | 14 December 2006 | 21 years, 86 days | 1 | 0 | ||
20 | Steven Lennon [110] | 27 December 2006 | 18 years, 341 days | 3 | 0 | ||
21 | Andrew Shinnie [111] | 17 March 2007 | 17 years, 243 days | 2 | 0 | ||
22 | Paul Emslie [112] | 26 September 2007 | 19 years, 197 days | 1 | 0 | ||
23 | John Fleck [113] | 23 January 2008 | 16 years, 152 days | 58 | 3 | ||
24 | Dean Furman [114] | 10 May 2008 | 19 years, 262 days | 1 | 0 | ||
25 | Rory Loy [115] | 1 November 2008 | 20 years, 227 days | 2 | 0 | ||
26 | Andrew Little [116] | 25 April 2009 | 19 years, 348 days | 89 | 38 | ||
27 | Gregg Wylde [117] | 29 August 2009 | 18 years, 159 days | 48 | 2 | ||
28 | Jordan McMillan [118] | 27 October 2009 | 21 years, 11 days | 5 | 0 | ||
29 | Danny Wilson [118] | 27 October 2009 | 17 years, 304 days | 107 | 5 | ||
30 | Kyle Hutton [119] | 14 August 2010 | 19 years, 180 days | 72 | 2 | ||
31 | Darren Cole [120] | 7 December 2010 | 18 years, 338 days | 5 | 0 | ||
32 | Jamie Ness [121] | 26 December 2010 | 19 years, 299 days | 18 | 2 | ||
33 | Kane Hemmings [122] | 3 August 2011 | 20 years, 117 days | 10 | 1 | ||
34 | Ross Perry [123] | 13 August 2011 | 21 years, 187 days | 33 | 0 | ||
35 | Thomas Kind Bendiksen [124] | 3 December 2011 | 22 years, 117 days | 3 | 0 | ||
36 | Rhys McCabe [125] | 3 March 2012 | 19 years, 233 days | 9 | 0 | ||
37 | Andrew Mitchell [126] | 17 March 2012 | 19 years, 344 days | 10 | 0 | ||
38 | Barrie McKay [127] | 13 May 2012 | 17 years, 135 days | 140 | 20 | ||
39 | Lewis Macleod [128] | 29 July 2012 | 18 years, 43 days | 74 | 16 | ||
40 | Kal Naismith [128] | 29 July 2012 | 20 years, 162 days | 24 | 3 | ||
41 | Robbie Crawford [128] | 29 July 2012 | 19 years, 132 days | 57 | 7 | ||
42 | Chris Hegarty [129] | 21 August 2012 | 20 years, 8 days | 31 | 1 | ||
43 | Fraser Aird [130] | 23 September 2012 | 17 years, 234 days | 85 | 12 | ||
44 | Tom Walsh [131] | 8 December 2012 | 16 years, 150 days | 13 | 0 | ||
45 | Luca Gasparotto [132] | 13 April 2013 | 17 years, 222 days | 4 | 0 | ||
46 | Danny Stoney [133] | 13 April 2013 | 16 years, 343 days | 3 | 0 | ||
47 | Andy Murdoch [134] | 27 April 2013 | 18 years, 87 days | 23 | 1 | ||
48 | Scott Gallacher [135] | 28 July 2013 | 24 years, 13 days | 6 | 0 | ||
49 | Kyle McAusland [136] | 28 July 2013 | 20 years, 190 days | 7 | 0 | ||
50 | Calum Gallagher [137] | 15 March 2014 | 19 years, 183 days | 6 | 1 | ||
51 | Charlie Telfer [138] | 19 April 2014 | 18 years, 289 days | 1 | 0 | ||
52 | Ryan Hardie [139] | 23 September 2014 | 17 years, 190 days | 17 | 2 | ||
53 | Jordan Thompson [140] | 7 November 2015 | 18 years, 308 days | 3 | 0 | ||
54 | Liam Burt [141] | 1 March 2016 | 17 years, 29 days | 3 | 0 | ||
55 | Myles Beerman [142] | 5 April 2017 | 18 years, 23 days | 8 | 0 | ||
56 | Jamie Barjonas [143] | 7 May 2017 | 18 years, 103 days | 9 | 0 | ||
57 | Aidan Wilson [144] | 17 May 2017 | 18 years, 135 days | 2 | 0 | ||
58 | Kyle Bradley [145] | 21 May 2017 | 18 years, 96 days | 1 | 0 | ||
59 | Ross McCrorie [146] | 19 September 2017 | 19 years, 185 days | 55 | 2 | ||
60 | Glenn Middleton [147] | 12 July 2018 | 18 years, 192 days | 29 | 5 | ||
61 | Stephen Kelly [148] | 26 September 2018 | 18 years, 166 days | 3 | 0 | ||
62 | Serge Atakayi [149] | 11 November 2018 | 19 years, 285 days | 1 | 0 | ||
63 | Jordan Houston [150] | 30 January 2019 | 19 years, 10 days | 1 | 0 | ||
64 | Dapo Mebude [151] | 19 May 2019 | 17 years, 294 days | 1 | 0 | ||
65 | Josh McPake [152] | 18 July 2019 | 17 years, 321 days | 1 | 0 | ||
66 | Nathan Patterson [153] | 17 January 2020 | 18 years, 93 days | 27 | 2 | ||
67 | Kai Kennedy [154] | 17 January 2020 | 17 years, 295 days | 1 | 0 | ||
68 | Ciaran Dickson [155] | 29 November 2020 | 18 years, 192 days | 1 | 0 | ||
69 | Leon King [155] | 29 November 2020 | 16 years, 320 days | 41 | 0 | ||
70 | Robby McCrorie [156] | 26 August 2021 | 23 years, 161 days | 7 | 0 | ||
71 | Alex Lowry [157] | 21 January 2022 | 18 years, 212 days | 14 | 2 | ||
72 | Charlie McCann [158] | 12 February 2022 | 19 years, 294 days | 8 | 0 | ||
73 | Adam Devine [159] | 8 May 2022 | 19 years, 44 days | 11 | 0 | ||
74 | Cole McKinnon [160] | 14 May 2022 | 19 years, 105 days | 4 | 1 | ||
75 | Ross McCausland [160] | 14 May 2022 | 19 years, 2 days | 62 | 7 | ||
76 | Tony Weston [160] | 14 May 2022 | 18 years, 239 days | 1 | 0 | ||
77 | Robbie Ure [161] | 30 August 2022 | 18 years, 185 days | 3 | 1 | ||
78 | Zak Lovelace [161] | 30 August 2022 | 16 years, 219 days | 7 | 0 | ||
79 | Paul Nsio [161] | 30 August 2022 | 16 years, 168 days | 2 | 0 | ||
80 | Archie Stevens [161] | 30 August 2022 | 16 years, 231 days | 1 | 0 | ||
81 | Bailey Rice [162] | 18 February 2023 | 16 years, 137 days | 6 | 0 | ||
82 | Arron Lyall [163] | 21 May 2023 | 19 years, 236 days | 1 | 0 | ||
83 | Johnly Yfeko [164] | 19 August 2023 | 20 years, 149 days | 1 | 0 | ||
84 | Robbie Fraser [165] | 14 May 2024 | 21 years, 42 days | 6 | 0 | ||
85 | Liam Kelly [166] | 21 December 2024 | 28 years, 333 days | 6 | 0 | ||
86 | Mason Munn [167] | 19 January 2025 | 18 years, 295 days | 1 | 0 | ||
87 | Findlay Curtis [167] | 19 January 2025 | 18 years, 224 days | 2 | 0 |
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