John Buchanan
Personal information
Full name John Buchanan
Date of birth (1928-06-09)9 June 1928
Place of birth Allandale, Scotland
Date of death December 2000 (aged 72)
Place of death Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
Kilsyth Rangers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1949–1955 Clyde 132 (69)
1955–1957 Derby County 32 (12)
1957–1963 Bradford Park Avenue 164 (67)
Total 328 (148)
International career
1952 Scotland B[1] 1 (0)
1953 Scotland XI[2] 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Buchanan (9 June 1928 – December 2000) was a Scottish football striker.[3]

Buchanan started his career with Clyde, and his prolific form saw him get a move to Derby County. He also played for Bradford Park Avenue, before retiring in 1963.

He is only one of a handful of Clyde players to have scored four goals in a single match.[4]

Derby County won the Third Division North title in 1956–57,[5] but Buchanan only played six league games with a return of five goals.[6]

Buchanan was Bradford's leading scorer with 21 goals from 42 games (in 1960–61),[7] as the team won promotion to the Third Division.[7] He was also top scorer with 23 goals in 1958–59.

Buchanan received a Scotland B cap in 1952, when he played against a France B team in a 0-0 draw in Toulouse.[1] In addition, he featured for a Scotland XI in an international trial match against the British Army in 1953.[2]

Career statistics

Club Division Season League National Cup League Cup Other Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Clyde Scottish Division A 1949–50[8] 3100000031
1950–51[9] 27910002[lower-alpha 1]0309
Scottish Division B 1951–52[10] 3017216614[lower-alpha 2]10[lower-alpha 2]5234
Scottish Division A 1952–53[11] 231322651[lower-alpha 3]03220
1953–54[12] 291621542[lower-alpha 4]03719
1954–55[13] 201300632[lower-alpha 5]1[lower-alpha 5]2817
Total132697423182111173106

Notes

  1. ↑ Includes Glasgow Cup (1 app) and Glasgow Charity Cup (1 app)
  2. 1 2 Includes St Mungo Cup (3 apps), Supplementary Cup (5 apps, 7 goals), Glasgow Cup (3 apps, 3 goals) and Glasgow Charity Cup (3 apps)
  3. ↑ Includes Glasgow Cup (1 app)
  4. ↑ Includes Glasgow Cup (1 app) and Glasgow Charity Cup (1 app)
  5. 1 2 Includes Glasgow Cup (2 apps, 1 goal)

    Honours

    Clyde

    Derby County

    Bradford Park

    References

    1. 1 2 "John Buchanan". www.fitbastats.com. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
    2. 1 2 "Army Goal Relieves Hampden Boredom". Glasgow Herald. PTFC Archive. 3 May 1953. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
    3. ↑ "John Buchanan". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
    4. ↑ "Gormley Joins Unique Club". Clyde FC. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
    5. 1 2 "Anton Rippon: A packed Baseball Ground for Derby County home games? It wasn't always that way". Derby Telegraph. 17 September 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
    6. ↑ "Jock Buchanan, Derby County". 11v11.com. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
    7. 1 2 3 "Bradford Park Avenue 1967-70: Part One – The Jack Rowley era by Ian Brown". Bradford Sports History. 29 July 2018. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
    8. ↑ "1949 – 1950 Fixtures". Clyde FC. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
    9. ↑ "1950 – 1951 Fixtures". Clyde FC. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
    10. ↑ "1951 – 1952 Fixtures". Clyde FC. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
    11. ↑ "1952 – 1953 Fixtures". Clyde FC. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
    12. ↑ "1953 – 1954 Fixtures". Clyde FC. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
    13. ↑ "1954 – 1955 Fixtures". Clyde FC. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
    14. ↑ "1951–52: Clyde 5 v 1 St. Johnstone". Clyde FC. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
      "1951–52: St Johnstone 2 v 2 Clyde". Clyde FC. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
    15. ↑ "1951–52: Celtic 1 v 2 Clyde". Clyde FC. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
    16. ↑ "1949–50: Rangers 2 v 1 Clyde". Clyde FC. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
    17. ↑ "1951–52: Third Lanark 2 v 2 Clyde". Clyde FC. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
    • John Buchanan at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
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