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Aidan Nesbitt
Personal information
Full name Aidan Nesbitt
Date of birth (1997-02-05) 5 February 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Scotland
Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team
Partick Thistle
Number 16
Youth career
-2015 Celtic
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015– Celtic 0 (0)
2016Partick Thistle (loan) 5 (0)
International career
Scotland U16 3 (0)
2013–2014 Scotland U17 9 (1)
2014– Scotland U19 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:22, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Aidan Nesbitt (born 5 February 1997) is a Scottish footballer who plays for Scottish Premiership side Partick Thistle, as an attacking midfielder.

Career

Celtic

Nesbitt is a product of the academy system at Celtic.[1] On 21 May 2015, Nesbitt scored a hat-trick in the 2015 SFA Youth Cup final against Rangers.[2] On 23 September 2015, Nesbitt made his first team debut in a League Cup match against Raith Rovers when he came on in the 89th minute.[3] On April 24th Nesbitt won the Celtic academy player of the year award.

Partick Thistle

On the 1 February 2016 Nesbitt joined fellow Scottish Premiership side Partick Thistle on loan until the end of the 2015–16 season.[4] Nesbitt made his Scottish Premiership league debut for Partick Thistle, starting in a 2–0 home win against St Johnstone on 23 February 2016 getting awarded a man of the match for his performance. [5]

International career

Nesbitt was named in the team of the tournament at the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship, as Scotland under-17s reached the semi-finals.[6] He then appeared for the Scotland under-19 team in each of the following two seasons.[7]

Career statistics

As of 1 August 2015
Club Season League Cup League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Celtic
2015–16 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Total 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Career Total 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0

Honours

Individual

References

  1. ^ "Welcome to Paradise". CelticFC. Retrieved 2015-09-26.
  2. ^ "Nesbitt the hat-trick hero as Celtic lift Youth Cup". CelticFC. 2015-05-21. Retrieved 2015-09-26.
  3. ^ Wilson, Richard (2015-09-22). "BBC Sport - Celtic 2-0 Raith Rovers". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-09-26.
  4. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35459423
  5. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35430343
  6. ^ "Technical REprot : Malta 2014" (PDF). Uefa.com. Retrieved 2015-09-26.
  7. ^ "Aidan Nesbitt". www.scottishfa.co.uk. Scottish Football Association. Retrieved 3 October 2015.