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Player #506

From:

To:

Career Status:

1964-65

1967-68

Retired

Appearances:

140

Starts:

137

Goals:

18

Assists:

18

Involvements:

36

Johnny MacLeod

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Winger

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Johnny MacLeod

Seasons Quick-View

1964-68 🕒 140 | 137 (3) | ⚽ 18 | 🔥 18 | 🇺 2 | #506 |

Season :

1964-65
1965-66
1966-67
1967-68

Age :

25
26
27
28

Division :

D1
D1
D1
D2

Squad # :

#
#
#
#

Appearances :

37
42
38
23

Starts :

37
41
37
22

Substitute :

0
1
1
1

Unused :

0
0
0
2

Goals :

3
5
8
2

Assists :

0
11
6
1

Involvements :

3
16
14
3

Games / Goal :

12.33
8.40
4.75
11.50

Bookings :

0
0
0
0

Sendings Off :

0
0
0
0

FAC: FA Cup; FL: Football League; D1: Division 1; D2: Division 2; D3: Division 3; PL: Premier League; CH: Championship

John Murdock MacLeod

Birth Date

23 November 1938

Birth Place

Edinburgh

Birth Country

Scotland

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Citizenship

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scotland

Villa Youth

n/a

Previous Teams (incl. Youth)

1954-55 Edinburgh Thistle Juniors
1955-57 Armadale Thistle Juniors

1957-61 Hibernian
Scottish First Division
🕒 101 | ⚽ 28 | (League)

1961-64 Arsenal
Football League First Division
🕒 130 | ⚽ 23 | (League)

Original Transfer

Aged

25

From

Arsenal

For

£40,000

On

September 1964

Under

Dick Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Returning Transfer 1

Aged

n/a

From

n/a

For

n/a

On

n/a

Under

n/a

Returning Transfer 2

Aged

n/a

From

n/a

For

n/a

On

n/a

Under

n/a

Transfer Notes

Loans Out

None

Transfer Out 1

Aged

To

For

On

Under

29

KV Mechelen

Free

July 1968

Tommy Cummings 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Transfer Out 2

Aged

To

For

On

Under

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Transfer Out 3

Aged

To

For

On

Under

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Subsequent Clubs

1968-71 KV Mechelen
Eerste Klasse
🕒 116 | ⚽ 3 | (League)

1971-72 Raith Rovers
Scottish Second Division
🕒 15 | ⚽ 5 | (League)

1972-75 Newtongrange Star

1975 Retired aged 36

Johnny MacLeod

Villa Career

1964-68 | £40k |
1964-67 Football League First Division, 1967-78 Football League Second Division,
🕒 140 | 137 (3) | ⚽ 18 | 🔥 18 | 🇺 2 | #506 |

🕒 Games | Starts (Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Played Under

Dick Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1964-67
Tommy Cummings 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1967-68

Promoted to First Team Squad

In

Transfer In

Under

Dick Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

First Squad

5 September 1964

Manager

Transfer In

Debut

Season

Date

Match

Age

Manager

1964-65

5 September 1964

Blackburn Rovers (h), Division One

25

Dick Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Final Appearance

Season

Date

Match

Aged

Manager

1967-68

27 April 1968

Huddersfield Town (a), Division Two

29

Tommy Cummings 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Final Squad

27 April 1968

Manager

Tommy Cummings 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Honours

Played for the Villa

Height

Foot

International Record

National Team

Scotland

Years | Caps | Starts (Sub) | Goals |

1961 🕒 4 | ⚽ 0 |

Scotland

Caps with Villa

🕒 0 | ⚽ 0 |

Johnny MacLeod

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Player #505 for Aston Villa, John Murdock MacLeod, known as Johnny MacLeod, played as an outside right for the club.

Johnny played for Villa between 1964-65 and 1967-68 making 140 appearances and scoring 18 goals.

Johnny was born in Edinburgh on 23 November 1938 and made his debut appearance for Villa on Saturday, 5 September 1964 aged 25,

Villa had signed Johnny from Arsenal for a fee of £40,000 on 1 September 1964 and from his debut he was a virtual ever present in the Villa first team for the next 4 seasons.

Despite his efforts Johnny’s time with the club saw Villa spend 3 seasons in the bottom 6 of Division One before inevitably succumbing to relegation to the second division in the 1967-68 season.

Johnny played for much of the Division Two season in 1967-68 before playing his final game for Villa on Saturday, 27 April 1968 aged 29 after which he moved on to KV Mechelen in Belgium in July 1968.

Johnny had played under Villa managers Dick Taylor and Tommy Cummings.

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