Tom Walsh (footballer)

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Tom Walsh
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Walsh playing for Rangers in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth (1996-07-11) 11 July 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Irvine, Scotland
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
2007–2012 Rangers
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2012–2017 Rangers 10 (0)
2014 → Stenhousemuir (loan) 9 (2)
2016 → Dumbarton (loan) 14 (1)
2016–2017 → St Mirren (loan) 10 (3)
2017 Limerick 2 (0)
2017–2018 Dumbarton 28 (3)
2018–2020 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 47 (9)
2020–2021 Ayr United 18 (3)
2021–2023 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 27 (4)
International career‡
2011–2012 Scotland U16 [1] 9 (4)
2012 Scotland U17 [1] 5 (0)
2013–2014 Scotland U19 [1] 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:37, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17:47, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Tom Walsh (born 11 July 1996) is a Scottish footballer who most recently played for Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the Scottish Championship. He became the youngest player to make an appearance for Rangers in Scottish league football, when he played for them aged 16 in 2012. He also had loan spells with Stenhousemuir, Dumbarton and St Mirren during his Ibrox career. Since leaving Rangers, Walsh has had spells with Limerick [2] in the League of Ireland and Dumbarton. Walsh would spend two years with Inverness in his first spell, before joining Ayr United for a season. He represented Scotland at various youth international levels.

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Early life

Walsh is from Troon, Ayrshire [3] and was educated at Marr College in the town. [4]

Club career

Walsh joined Rangers' Academy in 2007. He made his first-team debut for Rangers on 8 December 2012, aged only 16 years and 150 days, in a Scottish Third Division match against Stirling Albion. [5] Walsh became the youngest post-war Scottish football league debutant for Rangers and second youngest competitive debutant ever for the club, behind Derek Ferguson who made his debut in a League Cup match against Queen of the South in 1983, aged 16 years and 24 days. [6]

The following season saw Walsh suffer with injury, initially sustaining an ankle injury and then a recurring hamstring problem kept him out for the whole of the 2013–14 season [7] After finding opportunities in the first team difficult to come by and in a bid to improve his fitness levels after a long injury, Walsh joined the then Scottish League One side Stenhousemuir on loan for the first half of the 2014–15 season. [8] Prior to going on loan Walsh had signed a new contract extension with Rangers until 2017. [7] He made his debut for Stenhousemuir nearly three weeks later, on 20 September, against Peterhead, after recovering from a further hamstring injury. [9] He scored his first professional goal in his second appearance for Stenhousemuir on 18 October, against Stirling Albion, adding the fourth in a 4–0 win. [10]

After returning from his loan spell, Walsh featured once during Kenny McDowall's three months in charge of the first-team. However, upon the appointment of Stuart McCall as interim first-team manager, Walsh then began to play a more prominent role in the first-team squad. [7] He joined fellow Scottish Championship club Dumbarton on loan in January 2016. [11] [12] He scored his first goal for the Sons in a 4–2 win over Queen of the South. On 17 July 2016, Walsh joined Scottish Championship club St Mirren on loan until January 2017. [13] Walsh was released by Rangers on 18 January 2017. [14] After leaving Rangers he played two games as a substitute for Limerick in the League of Ireland against Shamrock Rovers [15] and Derry City. [16]

He returned to Dumbarton on a one-year deal in June 2017. [17] After a year with Dumbarton, Walsh moved North, signing for Inverness Caledonian Thistle. [18] Walsh rejected a new contract offer in 2020, choosing to leave the club as a free agent.

After leaving Inverness Caledonian Thistle Walsh joined his local team Ayr United. [19] Walsh would struggle with injury early on, but returned in the latter half of the season to help the club stay up in the Championship.

In June 2021, Walsh would return to former club Inverness Caledonian Thistle on a two-year deal. [20]

International career

Walsh has represented Scotland at various age levels. [1]

Personal life

Walsh is the cousin of professional golfer Jack McDonald. [3]

Career statistics

As of 14:49, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational CupLeague CupOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Rangers 2012–13 Scottish Third Division 1000000010
2013–14 Scottish League One 0000000000
2014–15 Scottish Championship 8000002 [lower-alpha 1] 0100
2015–16 1000001 [lower-alpha 2] 020
2016–17 Scottish Premiership 000000—00
Rangers total100000030130
Stenhousemuir (loan) 2014–15 Scottish League One92100000102
Dumbarton (loan) 2015–16 Scottish Championship1412000—161
St Mirren (loan) 2016–17 Scottish Championship10300313 [lower-alpha 2] 0164
Limerick 2017 Irish Premier Division 2000000020
Dumbarton 2017–18 Scottish Championship28330208 [lower-alpha 2] 0413
Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2018–19 Scottish Championship3065282404310
2019–20 17300400061
Career total1201811215318014721

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  2. ↑ Needham, Emma. "CHECK OUT THIS INTERVIEW WITH LIMERICK FC'S NEW MIDFIELDER TOMMY WALSH". Sporting Limerick. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Rangers rookie Tom Walsh aiming for the top with golf prodigy cousin". Euan McLean. Daily Record. 16 December 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
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