Graham Leggat

**Graham Leggat** (20 June 1934 – 29 August 2015) was a Scottish international footballer. He mainly played as a right winger for Aberdeen and Fulham, and is a member of the Aberdeen Hall of Fame. He was also capped 18 times for Scotland, and played for them at the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

Leggat held the record for the fastest hat-trick in the English league system, when he scored three goals in three minutes in a 10–1 win against Ipswich Town on 26 December 1963. This record was broken in May 2015 by Southampton winger Sadio Mané.

In 1971, he emigrated to Canada to work at the Toronto Metros. He would later become the vice-president and managing director of the Edmonton Drillers between 1979 and 1980. He also worked as an analyst for the CBC, where he covered the 1976 Summer Olympics and the FIFA World Cup. After leaving the CBC, he became the host of TSN's _Soccer Saturday_ program. He was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame in 2001.

Leggat died in August 2015, aged 81. His son, also named Graham Leggat, was the executive director of the San Francisco Film Society between October 2005 until his death in August 2011.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|League cup|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="6"|Aberdeen|1953–54|rowspan="5"|Scottish Division One|26|15|5|4|0|0|—|31|19|
|1954–55|26|11|5|0|5|2|—|36|13|||||
|1955–56|18|19|1|1|10|9|—|29|29|||||
|1956–57|24|12|2|1|5|3|—|31|16|||||
|1957–58|15|7|3|1|6|7|—|24|15|||||
|rowspan="10"|Fulham|1958–59|Second Division|36|21|4|1|—|—|40|22|||
|1959–60|rowspan="8"|First Division|28|18|2|2|—|—|30|20||||
|1960–61|36|23|0|0|0|0|—|36|23|||||
|1961–62|31|14|8|1|0|0|—|39|15|||||
|1962–63|33|10|1|0|1|0|—|35|10|||||
|1963–64|25|15|2|1|1|0|—|28|16|||||
|1964–65|17|4|0|0|2|0|—|19|4|||||
|1965–66|33|16|1|0|3|0|—|37|16|||||
|1966–67|15|8|0|0|1|2|—|16|10|||||
|rowspan="3"|Birmingham City|1966–67|rowspan="2"|Second Division|9|1|3|0|0|0|—|12|1|
|1967–68|7|2|0|0|0|0|—|7|2|||||
|Rotherham United|1968–69|Third Division|16|7|2|0|1|0|—|19|7|||
|Bromsgrove Rovers|1969–70|West Midlands (Regional) League|8|6|0|0|—|1|0|9|6|||
|Toronto Metros|1971|North American Soccer League|11|2|—|—|||11|2||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="5"|Scotland|1956|2|1|
|1957|1|1|||
|1958|6|1|||
|1959|5|4|||
|1960|4|1|||

### International goals

- _Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Leggat goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center"|1|14 April 1956|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland||style="text-align:center"|1–0|style="text-align:center"|1–1|1955–56 British Home Championship|||||
|style="text-align:center"|2|5 October 1957|Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland||style="text-align:center"|1–1|style="text-align:center"|1–1|1957–58 British Home Championship|||||
|style="text-align:center"|3|18 October 1958|Ninian Park, Cardiff, Wales||style="text-align:center"|1–0|style="text-align:center"|3–0|1958–59 British Home Championship|||||
|style="text-align:center"|4|6 May 1959|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland||style="text-align:center"|3–1|style="text-align:center"|3–2|Friendly|||||
|style="text-align:center"|5|27 May 1959|Olympisch Stadion, Netherlands||style="text-align:center"|2–1|style="text-align:center"|2–1|Friendly|||||
|style="text-align:center"|6|3 October 1959|Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland||style="text-align:center"|1–0|style="text-align:center"|4–0|1959–60 British Home Championship|||||
|style="text-align:center"|7|4 November 1959|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland||style="text-align:center"|1–1|style="text-align:center"|1–1|1960 British Home Championship|||||
|style="text-align:center"|8|19 April 1960|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland||style="text-align:center"|1–0|style="text-align:center"|1–1|1960 British Home Championship|||||

## Honours

- Aberdeen
- Scottish Division One: 1954–55
- Scottish League Cup: 1955–56

- Scotland
- British Home Championship: 1955–56 (shared), 1959–60 (shared)

## References

- Sources

## Other websites

- Profile at Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame
- International appearances at londonhearts.com Scotland section

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Graham Leggat
- **image**: Graham Leggat crop.jpg
- **caption**: Leggat with Fulham F.C., Fulham in 1958
- **fullname**: Graham Leggat
- **birth place**: Aberdeen, Scotland
- **death place**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **position**: Midfielder#Winger, Right winger
- **youthclubs1**: Banks O'Dee F.C., Banks O'Dee
- **years1**: 1953–1958
- **caps1**: 109
- **goals1**: 64
- **clubs1**: Aberdeen F.C., Aberdeen
- **years2**: 1958–1966
- **caps2**: 254
- **goals2**: 127
- **clubs2**: Fulham F.C., Fulham
- **years3**: 1966–1967
- **caps3**: 15
- **goals3**: 3
- **clubs3**: Birmingham City F.C., Birmingham City
- **years4**: 1968
- **caps4**: 16
- **goals4**: 7
- **clubs4**: Rotherham United F.C., Rotherham United
- **years5**: 1970
- **clubs5**: Bromsgrove Rovers F.C., Bromsgrove Rovers
- **years6**: 1971
- **caps6**: 11
- **goals6**: 2
- **clubs6**: Toronto Metros
- **totalcaps**: 405
- **totalgoals**: 203
- **nationalyears1**: 1954–1957
- **nationalteam1**: Scottish Football League XI
- **nationalcaps1**: 5
- **nationalgoals1**: 6
- **nationalyears2**: 1956–1960
- **nationalteam2**: Scotland national football team, Scotland
- **nationalcaps2**: 18
- **nationalgoals2**: 8
- **nationalyears3**: 1959
- **nationalteam3**: List of Scottish Football League representative players#Scotland trial matches / SFL Centenary players, SFA trial v SFL
- **nationalcaps3**: 1
- **nationalgoals3**: 0
- **manageryears1**: 1971–1972
- **managerclubs1**: Toronto Metros