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Lawrence Shankland
Shankland with Scotland in 2019
Personal information
Date of birth (1995-08-10) 10 August 1995 (age 29)
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Dundee United
Number 24
Youth career
2009–2012 Queen's Park
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2013 Queen's Park 34 (11)
2013–2017 Aberdeen 17 (0)
2014 → Dunfermline Athletic (loan) 13 (7)
2015–2016 → St Mirren (loan) 31 (10)
2016–2017 → St Mirren (loan) 17 (0)
2017 → Greenock Morton (loan) 16 (4)
2017–2019 Ayr United 61 (50)
2019– Dundee United 12 (16)
International career‡
2015 Scotland U21 4 (2)
2019– Scotland 2 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:20, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:03, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Lawrence Shankland (born 10 August 1995) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Dundee United of the Scottish Championship[2] and the Scotland national team.

He began his career at Queen's Park before moving to Aberdeen in 2013. He played on loan with Dunfermline Athletic, St Mirren and Greenock Morton before joining Ayr United in 2017. He signed for Dundee United in 2019 and made his debut for Scotland later that year.

Club career

Queen's Park

Shankland was born in Glasgow and attended Bannerman High School in Baillieston.[3] He progressed through the Queen's Park youth system and was their top goalscorer in the 2012–13 season, having moved to the senior squad straight from the under-17 team;[4] he also worked part-time as a tool setter in a local plumbing supplies company, a position arranged by the amateur club to help their young players earn a wage.[3] Shankland signed for Aberdeen at the end of the season.[5][6] He was one of three Queen's Park players to move to top flight Scottish clubs at that time, as Andy Robertson and Aidan Connolly signed for Dundee United.[5][3] (Blair Spittal also made the move to Dundee United a year later).

Aberdeen

Shankland was initially placed in the Aberdeen under-20 squad, as he adjusted to full-time professional training.[6][3] He made his debut appearance for Aberdeen in September 2014, in a 3–2 victory against Inverness CT.[7] After impressing in the under-20s, scoring plenty of goals, and making first team appearances as a substitute, Shankland signed a new contract to run until summer 2017;[8][3] however, he was loaned to lower-division clubs for the vast majority of its duration. At the end of the 2016–17 season, Aberdeen confirmed that Shankland would be leaving the club.[9]

Dunfermline loan

He moved to Dunfermline Athletic on loan for the latter part of the 2013–14 season.[10] The 18-year-old striker scored seven league goals during his short spell in Fife; however, injury prevented him taking part in the Pars' end-of-season promotion play-off with local rivals Cowdenbeath which ended in defeat.[11]

St Mirren and Morton loans

Shankland was loaned to St Mirren in August 2015 for the rest of the 2015–16 season.[12] He scored his first goal for the Buddies in a 2–1 home defeat to Raith Rovers on 18 September 2015.[13] Shankland scored 10 goals in 32 appearances during his loan spell, and returned to Aberdeen at the end of the season.[14]

In July 2016, it was confirmed that Shankland had returned to Paisley, once again joining St Mirren on a season-long loan.[15] However, having failed to score any league goals in the first half of the season, his St Mirren deal was cut short and on 11 January 2017, he moved on loan to their rivals, fellow Scottish Championship side Greenock Morton.[16] After helping the club to a 4th-place finish, his final appearance for Morton was in the Scottish Premiership playoff defeat to Dundee United.[17]

Ayr United

In September 2017, free agent Shankland signed a short-term contract to play for Scottish League One club Ayr United until the following January.[18] On 24 March 2018 he scored a hat-trick against former club Queen's Park.[19] Ayr won the league by one point, and after finishing with 29 goals, Shankland was named as the division's PFA Scotland Players' Player of the Year.[20]

He started the 2018–19 season with a hat-trick against former club Morton in the League Cup.[21] On 28 July, he scored a "stunning goal" from 45 yards as Ayr defeated Partick Thistle to qualify for the knockout stage of the competition.[22] With a goal against Dunfermline on 25 August 2018, Shankland moved to 41 goals in 42 games for the Honest Men.[23]

In November 2018, he scored four goals in a league fixture away to Dundee United which ended 5–0 and put Ayr five points clear at the top of the table.[24] However he then sustained an injury, and Ayr's form deteriorated in his absence. He returned towards the end of the season, but the team's campaign ended with defeat to Inverness CT in the opening round of the Premiership promotion play-offs, having finished in 4th position.[25] Shankland, whose total return was 34 goals in 41 games, was nominated for the division's PFA Player of the Year Award,[26] but lost out to another prolific striker, Stephen Dobbie. Both were named in the Team of the Year.[27]

Dundee United

On 3 July 2019 it was announced that Shankland had left Ayr to join fellow Championship side Dundee United on a three year deal, turning down offers from other clubs in both England and Scotland.[2][28] He scored on his debut for the club in a Scottish League Cup tie against Hearts on 12 July 2019,[29] and scored four goals in a 4–1 victory against Inverness Caledonian Thistle on the opening day of the 2019–20 Scottish Championship season.[30] Shankland was named Scottish Championship Player of the Month for August 2019, having scored eight goals in four appearances during the month.[31]

International career

Shankland represented Scotland under-18s in Victory Shield matches against the other home nations in 2012.[32] He was first selected for the Scotland national under-21 football team in March 2015; he made his debut away to Hungary, scoring two late goals in a 2–1 victory. He made three other under-21 appearances, also in 2015, producing one draw and two defeats.[33]

On 1 October 2019, Scotland manager Steve Clarke called up Shankland to the senior squad for the first time.[34] He won his first cap when he came on as a second-half substitute in the side's 4–0 defeat by Russia on 10 October,[35] and three days later made his first start and scored his first goal, the fourth in a 6–0 victory over San Marino at Hampden Park.[36]

Career statistics

As of 29 October 2019
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Scottish Cup League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Queen's Park 2011–12[37] Scottish Third Division 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2012–13[38][1] Scottish Third Division 33 11 3 1 3 1 4[a] 2 43 15
Total 34 11 3 1 3 1 4 2 44 15
Aberdeen 2013–14[39] Scottish Premiership 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0
2014–15[40] Scottish Premiership 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0
2015–16[41] Scottish Premiership 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2016–17[42] Scottish Premiership 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0
Dunfermline Athletic (loan) 2013–14[39] Scottish League One 13 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 7
St Mirren (loan) 2015–16[41] Scottish Championship 31 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 32 10
2016–17[42] Scottish Championship 17 0 1 2 3 1 3[b] 1 24 4
Greenock Morton (loan) 2016–17[42] Scottish Championship 16 4 0 0 0 0 2[c] 0 18 4
Ayr United 2017–18[43] Scottish League One 30 26 3 3 0 0 0 0 33 29
2018–19[44] Scottish Championship 31 24 1 1 6 9 3[d] 0 41 34
Total 61 50 3 3 6 9 3 0 73 62
Dundee United 2019–20[45] Scottish Championship 11 15 0 0 4 2 1[b] 0 16 17
Career total 200 99 10 7 16 13 13 3 239 120
  1. ^ Two appearances and a goal in the Scottish Challenge Cup; two appearances and a goal in the Second Division play-offs
  2. ^ a b Appearances in the Scottish Challenge Cup
  3. ^ Appearances in the Premiership play-offs
  4. ^ 1 appearance in the 2018–19 Scottish Challenge Cup, 2 appearances in the Premiership play-offs

International goals

Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first.
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 13 October 2019 Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland  San Marino 4–0 6–0 UEFA Euro 2020 qualification

Honours

Ayr United

Individual

References

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