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Craig Smart
Personal information
Date of birth (1978-03-23) 23 March 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth Dunfermline, Scotland
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1993–1995 Dunfermline
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1997 Livingston 48 (1)
1997–1998 Newry City
1998–1999 Brechin 30 (1)
Hill of Beath Hawthorn
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Craig Smart (born 23 March 1978) is a Scottish footballer who played as a midfielder for Livingston.

Club career

He started his career in the youth ranks of Dunfermline, but failed to make a single first team appearance for the club.

In 1995, Smart signed for Livingston who had just renamed and relocated to West Lothian. He was part of the side that won the 1995–96 Scottish Third Division. The midfielder appeared 48 times for Livi before leaving the club in 1997.

Smart left Scotland in 1997 to sign for Newry City F.C. in Northern Ireland. The spell lasted just a season before he returned to Scotland to sign for Brechin City F.C.

After leaving the City, Smart signed for Hill of Beath Hawthorn.

International career

Smart received an offer of a call up to the India national football team in 1996. He was eligible to represent the Blue Tigers as his grandfather was born in India. He did not accept the offer to represent India.

Honours

Livingston

References

  1. "Craig Smart". Neil Brown.
  2. "We've proved we can be title shockers; LIVINGSTON v BERWICK". Daily Record. 1 January 1997.
  3. "SEASON 1995 – 1996". Tackety Bits.
  4. "Leishman sees his objective achieved". The Herald. 15 April 1996.
  5. "Brechin City 0 Clydebank 1". Bankies Archive. 10 January 1998.
  6. "BELL'S DIVISION 2; BRECHIN v FORFAR". Daily Record. 25 April 1998.
  7. "Blue Tigers Eye Lion Craig". West Lothian Courier. 24 March 2016.

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