William Maxwell (footballer)
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| Full name | William Sturrock Maxwell | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 21 September 1876 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Arbroath, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 14 July 1940 (aged 63) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1892 | Hearts Strollers | ||||||||||||||||
| 1893–1894 | Arbroath | ||||||||||||||||
| 1894 | Dundee | 1 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1894 | Heart of Midlothian | 1 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1894–1895 | Dundee | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1895–1901 | Stoke | 153 | (74) | ||||||||||||||
| 1901–1902 | Third Lanark | 16 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
| 1902–1903 | Sunderland | 7 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 1903–1905 | Millwall Athletic | 54 | (34) | ||||||||||||||
| 1905–1908 | Bristol City | 120 | (58) | ||||||||||||||
| 1909–1910 | Léopold | ||||||||||||||||
| Total | 352 | (181) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1898 | Scotland | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1902 | Scottish Football League XI | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1910–1913 | Belgium | ||||||||||||||||
| 1920–1928 | Belgium | ||||||||||||||||
| 1937–1938 | Cercle Brugge | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
William Sturrock Maxwell (21 September 1876 – 14 July 1940) was a Scottish professional footballer and amateur cricketer.
He played for hometown club Arbroath, Dundee, Heart of Midlothian, Stoke, Sunderland, Third Lanark and Bristol City. He also gained one cap for the Scotland national team. He finished as the top scorer in the Scottish Football League Division One in the 1901–02 season, and later, while at Bristol City, he was the Second Division topscorer with 27 goals in the 1905–06 season. Maxwell later coached the Belgium national team.