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Appearances:

140

Starts:

137

Substitute:

3

Unused:

2

Goals:

18

Games per Goal:

7.78

Assists:

18

Goal Involvements:

36

Player #505

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Citizenship:

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Seasons:

Bookings:

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Winger

1964-65

1967-68

4

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Johnny MacLeod

Johnny MacLeod

Seasons Quick-View

Season

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

Age

25
26
27
28

Division

D1
D1
D1
D2

Squad #

#
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#

Appearances

37
42
38
23

Starts

37
41
37
22

Subs

0
1
1
1

Unused

0
0
0
2

Goals

3
5
8
2

Assists

0
11
6
1

Bookings

0
0
0
0

Red Cards

0
0
0
0

Games / Goals

12.33
8.40
4.75
11.50

Goal

Involvements

3
16
14
3

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

Goalkeeping Statistics

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1
2
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4
5
6
7
8
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10
11
12
13
14
15
16
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18
19
20
1964-65
1965-66
1966-67
1967-68

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🥅 : Goals Conceded; 🔢 : Goals Conceded per Game; ⛔ : Clean Sheets.

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

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)

Transfer in

Aged

25

From

Arsenal

For

£40,000

On

September 1964

Under

Dick Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Promoted to First Team Squad

In

Transfer In

Under

Transfer In

Loans Out

None

Transfer Out

Aged

29

KV Mechelen

To

For

Free

On

July 1968

Under

Tommy Cummings 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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

Villa Career

1964-68 £40k
Football League First Division, Second Division
🕒 140 | 137 (3) | ⚽ 18 | #505 |

Appearances

Unused

140

2

Goals

18

Played Under

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

Debut

Season

Date

Match

Age

Manager

(First Squad)

Manager

First Goal

1964-65

5 September 1964

Blackburn Rovers (h), Division One

25

Dick Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

5 September 1964

Dick Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

19 December 1964

Appearances

Goals

140

18

Final Appearance

Season

Date

Match

1967-68

27 April 1968

Huddersfield Town (a), Division Two

Aged

Manager

(Final Squad)

Manager

Tommy Cummings 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

29

27 April 1968

Tommy Cummings 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Honours

Played for the Villa

Height

Foot

International Record

National Team

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Scotland

Years | Caps | Starts (Sub) | Goals |

1961 🕒 4 | ⚽ 0 |

Caps with Villa

🕒 0 | ⚽ 0 |

Johnny MacLeod

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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