Billy McColl

Infobox Football biography
playername = Billy McColl


fullname = William Christopher McColl
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countryofbirth = Scotland
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position = Midfield
youthyears =
youthclubs = Drumchapel Amateurs
years = 1972–1978
1978–1981
1981–1983
1983
clubs = Clydebank
Ayr United
Clyde
Albion Rovers
caps(goals) = 152 (23)
088 0(1)
047 0(0)
001 0(0)
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William Christopher McColl, known as Billy McColl, is a Scottish former footballer.

Playing career

A product of the renowned Glasgow youth team Drumchapel Amateurs, McColl began his senior career with Clydebank, and was a member of the squad that won the inaugural Second Division title in 1975-76 before surprisingly going on to reach the Premier Division a year later, the first time the club had appeared in the top flight of Scottish football. He would make over 150 Scottish League appearances in the Clydebank midfield before a transfer to Ayr United in 1978.

In 1981 McColl joined Clyde and won another Second Division championship medal, under Craig Brown in season 1981-82. His last senior club was Albion Rovers in 1983 where he made just a single league appearance before retiring.

After leaving football, McColl went into business as a sub-postmaster and newsagent in Netherlee, East Renfrewshire. [Citation | last = White | first = Neil | title = Caught in Time: Craig Brown’s Clyde win the Second Division title, 1982 | newspaper = The Sunday Times | year = 2005 | date = 2005-04-03 | url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article376790.ece] His son Barry McColl also played Scottish League football, for Queen's Park in the 1990s.

Honours

Clydebank
* Scottish League Second Division: 1975-76

Clyde
* Scottish League Second Division: 1981-82

References