SCOTTISH
NEWTON HEATH &
MANCHESTER UNITED PLAYERS

Explore the complete list of Scottish footballers who have represented both Newton Heath and Manchester United throughout the club’s long and storied history. From early pioneers in the Newton Heath era to legendary figures like Denis Law, this page showcases Scotland’s profound influence on the club’s success. Learn about appearances, goals, honours, and the lasting legacy of Scottish players who helped shape Manchester United. An essential resource for fans, historians, and anyone celebrating the Scottish roots of one of the world’s greatest football clubs.

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No	Portrait	Player Name	Nationality	Years at Club	Total Apps	Total Goals	Strike Ratio Goals/Games
1.		Ramsey, Robert "Bob"	Scotland	1890-1891	1	0	0.00
2.		Stewart, Willie	Scotland	1889-1895	87	5	0.06
3.		Milarvie, Robert	Scotland	1890-1891	1	0	0.00
4.		McFarlane, Robert	Scotland	1891-1892	3	0	0.00
5.		Sneddon, John	Scotland	1891-1892	3	1	0.33
6.		Brown, James (1892-1893)	Scotland	1892-1893	7	0	0.00
7.		Erentz, Fredrick	Scotland	1892-1902	310	9	0.03
8.		Coupar, James	Scotland	1892-1894, 1901-1902	34	10	0.29
9.		Donaldson, Robert	Scotland	1891-1897	155	66	0.43
10.		Carson, Adam	Scotland	1892-1893	13	3	0.23
11.		Mathieson, William	Scotland	1892-1894, 1895-1896	10	2	0.20
12.		Mitchell, Andrew (1892-1894)	Scotland	1892-1894	61	0	0.00
13.		Hood, William "Billy"	Scotland	1891-1894	37	6	0.16
14.		Hendry, James	Scotland	1892	2	1	0.50
15.		Colville, James	Scotland	1892-1893	10	1	0.10
16.		Fitzsimmons, Thomas	Scotland	1892-1894	30	6	0.20
17.		Brady, William	Scotland	1893	1	0	0.00
18.		Cassidy, Joe	Scotland	1893, 1895-1900	174	100	0.57
19.		Davidson,William	Scotland	1893-1895	44	2	0.05
20.		McNaught, James	Scotland	1893-1898	162	12	0.07
21.		Thomson, William	Scotland	1893	3	0	0.00
22.		Graham, John	Scotland	1893-1894	4	0	0.00
23.		Campbell, William	Scotland	1893-1894	5	1	0.20
24.		Clarkin, John	Scotland	1894-1896	74	23	0.31
25.		Parker, Samuel	Scotland	1894	12	0	0.00
26.		Douglas, William "Hugh"	Scotland	1894-1896	57	0	0.00
27.		Dow, John	Scotland	1894-1896	50	6	0.12
28.		McCartney, John	Scotland	1894-1895	20	1	0.05
29.		Millar, George	Scotland	1894-1895	7	5	0.71
30.		McFetridge, David	Scotland	1895	1	0	0.00
31.		Longair, William	Scotland	1895	1	0	0.00
32.		Fitzsimmons, David	Scotland	1895-1896, 1899-1900	31	0	0.00
33.		Kennedy, William	Scotland	1895-1896	33	12	0.36
34.		Aitken, John	Scotland	1895	2	1	0.50
35.		Vance, James	Scotland	1896	11	1	0.09
36.		Barrett, Frank	Scotland	1896-1900	136	0	0.00
37.		Gillespie, Matthew	Scotland	1896-1901	89	21	0.24
38.		Boyd, Henry	Scotland	1897-1899	62	35	0.56
39.		Erentz, Henry "Harry"	Scotland	1897-1898	9	0	0.00
40.		Cairns, James	Scotland	1898	1	0	0.00
41.		Connachan, James	Scotland	1898-1899	4	0	0.00
42.		Cunningham, John	Scotland	1898-1899	17	2	0.12
43.		Walker, Robert	Scotland	1899	2	0	0.00
44.		Gourlay, John	Scotland	1899	1	0	0.00
45.		Bain, James (1899-1900)	Scotland	1899	2	1	0.50
46.		Clark, Joseph	Scotland	1899-1900	9	0	0.00
47.		Fisher, James	Scotland	1900-1902	46	3	0.07
48.		Morgan, Hugh	Scotland	1900-1901	23	4	0.17
49.		Peddie, Jack	Scotland	1902-1903, 1904-1908	121	58	0.48
50.		Downie, Alex	Scotland	1902-1910	191	14	0.07
51.		Bell, Alex	Scotland	1902-1913	309	10	0.03
52.		Christie, John	Scotland	1902-1904	1	0	0.00
53.		Bonthron, Robert	Scotland	1903-1907	134	3	0.02
54.		Robertson, Alex	Scotland	1903-1907	35	2	0.06
55.		Robertson, Thomas	Scotland	1903	3	0	0.00
56.		Robertson, "Sandy"	Scotland	1903-1907	34	9	0.26
57.		McCartney, William "John"	Scotland	1903-1904	13	1	0.08
58.		Blackstock, Thomas	Scotland	1903-1907	38	0	0.00
59.		Grassam, William	Scotland	1903-1905	37	14	0.38
60.		Kerr, Hugh	Scotland	1903-1904	2	0	0.00
61.		Mackie, Charles	Scotland	1904-1905	7	4	0.57
62.		Picken, Jack	Scotland	1905-1911	122	46	0.38
63.		Montgomery, Archibald	Scotland	1905-1906	3	0	0.00
64.		Young, Arthur	Scotland	1906-1907	2	0	0.00
65.		Menzies, Alexander	Scotland	1906-1907	25	4	0.16
66.		Turnbull, Sandy	Scotland	1906-1915	247	101	0.41
67.		Turnbull, Jimmy	Scotland	1907-1910	78	45	0.58
68.		Whiteside, Kerr	Scotland	1908-1910	1	0	0.00
69.		Christie, David	Scotland	1907-1910	2	0	0.00
70.		Livingstone, George	Scotland	1909-1914	46	4	0.09
71.		Quin, Jack	Scotland	1908-1911	2	0	0.00
72.		Edmonds, Hugh	Scotland	1910-1912	51	0	0.00
73.		Hodge, James	Scotland	1910-1919	86	2	0.02
74.		Thomson, James	Scotland	1913-1914	6	1	0.17
75.		Hodge, John	Scotland	1913-1919	30	0	0.00
76.		Bissett, George	Scotland	1919-1922	42	10	0.24
77.		Prentice, John	Scotland	1919-1920	1	0	0.00
78.		Miller, Thomas	Scotland	1920-1921	27	8	0.30
79.		Scott, John	Scotland	1921-1922	24	0	0.00
80.		Lochhead, Arthur	Scotland	1921-1926	153	50	0.33
81.		McBain, Neil	Scotland	1921-1923	43	2	0.05
82.		Henderson, William	Scotland	1921-1925	36	17	0.47
83.		Wood, John	Scotland	1922-1923	16	1	0.06
84.		Bain, David	Scotland	1922-1924	23	9	0.39
85.		MacDonald, Kenneth	Scotland	1923	9	2	0.22
86.		Ellis, David	Scotland	1923-1924	11	0	0.00
87.		Miller, James	Scotland	1924	4	1	0.25
88.		Bain, James (1922-1928)	Scotland	1922-1928	4	0	0.00
89.		Rennox, Clatworthy	Scotland	1924-1927	68	26	0.38
90.		McCrae, James	Scotland	1926	13	0	0.00
91.		Inglis, William	Scotland	1925-1930	14	1	0.07
92.		Smith, Albert	Scotland	1925-1927	5	1	0.20
93.		Johnston, William	Scotland	1927-1932	77	27	0.35
94.		Nicol, George	Scotland	1927-1929	7	2	0.29
95.		Reid, Thomas	Scotland	1928-1933	101	67	0.66
96.		McLachlan, George	Scotland	1929-1934	116	4	0.03
97.		McDonald, William	Scotland	1932-1934	27	4	0.15
98.		Black, Arthur	Scotland	1931-1934	8	3	0.38
99.		Frame, Thomas	Scotland	1932-1936	52	4	0.08
100.		Chalmers, William	Scotland	1932-1934	35	1	0.03
101.		Stewart, William Todd	Scotland	1932-1934	49	7	0.14
102.		Dewar, Neil	Scotland	1933	36	14	0.39
103.		McGillivray, Charles	Scotland	1933-1934	9	0	0.00
104.		Robertson, William	Scotland	1934-1936	50	1	0.02
105.		McKay, William	Scotland	1933-1946	182	15	0.08
106.		Mutch, George	Scotland	1934-1938	120	49	0.41
107.		Boyd, William	Scotland	1934-1935	6	4	0.67
108.		Brown, James (1935-1939)	Scotland	1935-1939	110	1	0.01
109.		Robbie, David	Scotland	1935	1	0	0.00
110.		Lang, Thomas	Scotland	1935-1937	13	1	0.08
111.		McClelland, James	Scotland	1936-1937	5	1	0.20
112.		Murray, Robert	Scotland	1937-1938	4	0	0.00
113.		Dougan, Thomas	Scotland	1939-1940	4	0	0.00
114.		Delaney, Jimmy	Scotland	1946-1951	184	28	0.15
115.		Lowrie, Thomas	Scotland	1947-1951	14	0	0.00
116.		Downie, John	Scotland	1948-1953	116	37	0.32
117.		Bogan, Thomas	Scotland	1947-1952	33	7	0.21
118.		McShane, Harry	Scotland	1950-1954	57	8	0.14
119.		Dawson, Alex	Scotland	1956-1962	93	54	0.58
120.		Heron, Thomas	Scotland	1958-1961	3	0	0.00
121.		Moir, Ian	Scotland	1960-1965	45	5	0.11
122.		Herd, David	Scotland	1961-1968	265	145	0.55
123.		Law, Denis	Scotland	1962-1973	404	237	0.59
124.		Crerand, Pat	Scotland	1963-1971	397	15	0.04
125.		Fitzpatrick, John	Scotland	1963-1973	147	10	0.07
126.		Ryan, Jimmy	Scotland	1965-1970	27	4	0.15
127.		Burns, Francis	Scotland	1965-1972	156	7	0.04
128.		Kopel, Frank	Scotland	1967-1969	12	0	0.00
129.		Morgan, Willie	Scotland	1968-1975	296	34	0.11
130.		Ure, Ian	Scotland	1969-1971	65	1	0.02
131.		Watson, Willie	Scotland	1970-1973	14	0	0.00
132.		Donald, Ian	Scotland	1969-1973	6	0	0.00
133.		Buchan, Martin	Scotland	1971-1983	456	4	0.01
134.		MacDougall, Ted	Scotland	1971-1972	18	5	0.28
135.		Forsyth, Alex	Scotland	1972-1978	119	5	0.04
136.		Graham, George	Scotland	1972-1975	46	2	0.04
137.		Holton, Jim	Scotland	1972-1975	69	5	0.07
138.		Macari, Lou	Scotland	1973-1984	401	97	0.24
139.		Buchan, George	Scotland	1972-1973	4	0	0.00
140.		Houston, Stewart	Scotland	1973-1980	250	16	0.06
141.		McCalliog, Jim	Scotland	1973-1974	38	7	0.18
142.		Albiston, Arthur	Scotland	1974-1988	485	7	0.01
143.		Paterson, Steven	Scotland	1974-1980	10	0	0.00
144.		Jordan, Joe	Scotland	1977-1981	126	41	0.33
145.		McQueen, Gordon	Scotland	1977-1985	229	26	0.11
146.		McGarvey, Scott	Scotland	1980-1984	25	3	0.12
147.		Graham, Arthur	Scotland	1983-1984	52	7	0.13
148.		Hogg, Graeme	Scotland	1982-1988	110	1	0.01
149.		Strachan, Gordon	Scotland	1984-1989	201	38	0.19
150.		Brazil, Alan	Scotland	1984-1986	41	12	0.29
151.		McClair, Brian	Scotland	1987-1998	471	127	0.27
152.		Leighton, Jim	Scotland	1988-1991	94	0	0.00
153.		Milne, Ralph	Scotland	1988-1990	30	3	0.10
154.		Ferguson, Darren	Scotland	1990-1994	30	0	0.00
155.		McKee, Colin	Scotland	1994	1	0	0.00
156.		Notman, Alex	Scotland	1998-2001	1	0	0.00
157.		Stewart, Michael	Scotland	1997-2004	14	0	0.00
158.		Goram, Andy	Scotland	2000-2001	2	0	0.00
159.		Fletcher, Darren	Scotland	2003-2015	342	24	0.07
160.		Bardsley, Phil	Scotland	2003-2008	18	0	0.00
161.		Gray, David	Scotland	2006-2010	1	0	0.00
162.		Love, Donald	Scotland	2016	2	0	0.00
163.		McTominay, Scott	Scotland	2013-2024	255	29	0.11
164.		Fletcher, Tyler	Scotland	2023-Present*	1	0	0.00