Ian St John

**Ian St John** (7 June 1938 – 1 March 2021) was a Scottish footballer. He played as a centre-forward. He is best known as a Liverpool player from  1961 to 1971. He won two First Division league titles and an FA Cup (scoring the 117th minute winning goal in the 1965 final) with Liverpool. He played for Scotland 21 times. He later became a manager and pundit. He was born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire. In 2008, he was added to the Scottish Football Hall of Fame.

## Health and death

In June 2014, he announced that he had surgery for bladder cancer in April of that year. The surgery removed his bladder and prostate gland.

St John died on 1 March 2021 after a long illness in Arrowe Park, Merseyside at the age of 82.

## International career statistics

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="7"|Scotland|1959|3|0|
|1960|3|1|||
|1961|5|5|||
|1962|4|0|||
|1963|5|2|||
|1964|—||||
|1965|1|1|||

- _Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each St John goal_.

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Cap|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="center"|1||Hampden Park, Glasgow|5||2–2|2–3|Friendly match||||||||
|align="center"|2||Hampden Park, Glasgow|8||1–1|3–2|1962 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|align="center"|3|rowspan="2"|rowspan="2"|Hampden Park, Glasgow|10|rowspan="2"|align="center"|1–0|2–0|1961–62 British Home Championship||||||||
|align="center"|4|align="center"|2–0|||||||||||||
|align="center"|5|rowspan="2"|rowspan="2"|Stade Heysel, Brussels|11|rowspan="2"|align="center"|1–0|2–4|1962 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|align="center"|6|align="center"|2–1|||||||||||||
|align="center"|7||Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid|19||6–2|6–2|Friendly match||||||||
|align="center"|8||Windsor Park, Belfast|20||1–1|1–2|1963–64 British Home Championship||||||||
|align="center"|9||Wembley Stadium, London|21||2–2|2–2|1964–65 British Home Championship||||||||

## Honours

**Liverpool**
- Football League First Division: 1963–64, 1965–66
- Football League Second Division: 1961–62
- FA Cup: 1964–65
- FA Charity Shield: 1964, 1965, 1966
- European Cup Winners' Cup: runner-up 1965–66

**Individual**
- Scottish Football Hall of Fame inductee: 2008

## Other websites

- Official past players at LFC TV
- Player profile at LFChistory.net

## Infobox (football biography)

- **image**: Ian St John (1966).jpg
- **caption**: St John in 1966
- **fullname**: John St John
- **birth place**: Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- **death place**: Arrowe Park, Merseyside, England
- **position**: Forward (association football), Forward
- **youthclubs1**: Motherwell Bridge Works
- **youthyears2**: 1955–1956
- **youthclubs2**: North Motherwell Athletic
- **years1**: 1956–1961
- **clubs1**: Motherwell F.C., Motherwell
- **caps1**: 113
- **goals1**: 80
- **years2**: 1956–1957
- **clubs2**: → Douglas Water Thistle F.C., Douglas Water Thistle (loan)
- **years3**: 1961–1971
- **clubs3**: Liverpool F.C., Liverpool
- **caps3**: 336
- **goals3**: 95
- **years4**: 1971
- **clubs4**: Hellenic F.C., Hellenic
- **caps4**: 23
- **goals4**: 4
- **years5**: 1971–1972
- **clubs5**: Coventry City F.C., Coventry City
- **caps5**: 18
- **goals5**: 3
- **years6**: 1972
- **clubs6**: Cape Town City F.C. (NFL), Cape Town City
- **years7**: 1972–1973
- **clubs7**: Tranmere Rovers F.C., Tranmere Rovers
- **caps7**: 9
- **goals7**: 1
- **nationalyears1**: 1959–1965
- **nationalteam1**: Scotland national football team, Scotland
- **nationalcaps1**: 21
- **nationalgoals1**: 9
- **nationalyears2**: 1959–1961
- **nationalteam2**: Scottish League XI
- **nationalcaps2**: 4
- **nationalgoals2**: 6
- **nationalyears3**: 1960
- **nationalteam3**: List of Scottish Football League representative players#Scotland trial matches / SFL Centenary players, SFL trial v SFA
- **nationalcaps3**: 1
- **nationalgoals3**: 0
- **nationalyears4**: 1960
- **nationalteam4**: Scotland national under-23 football team, Scotland U23
- **nationalcaps4**: 2
- **nationalgoals4**: 2
- **nationalyears5**: 1962
- **nationalteam5**: List of Scottish Football League representative players#Scotland trial matches / SFL Centenary players, SFA trial v SFL
- **nationalcaps5**: 1
- **nationalgoals5**: 0
- **manageryears1**: 1973–1974
- **managerclubs1**: Motherwell F.C., Motherwell
- **manageryears2**: 1974–1977
- **managerclubs2**: Portsmouth F.C., Portsmouth