Kevin Bremner

Infobox Football biography
playername = Kevin Bremner


fullname = Kevin Johnston Bremner
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1957|10|7|df=y
cityofbirth = Banff
countryofbirth = Scotland
dateofdeath =
cityofdeath =
countryofdeath =
height = height|ft=5|in=9
position = Striker
currentclub =
youthyears =
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years = 1976–1979
1979–1980
1980–1983
1982
1982–1983
1983
1983–1985
1985–1987
1987–1990
1990–1991
1991–1992
1992
1992–1994
1994–1995
clubs = Deveronvale
Keith
Colchester United
→ Birmingham City (loan)
→ Wrexham (loan)
→ Plymouth Argyle (loan)
Millwall
Reading
Brighton & Hove Albion
Peterborough United
Dundee
→ Shrewsbury Town
Brora Rangers
Deveronvale
caps(goals) =
095 (31)
004 0(1)
004 0(1)
005 0(1)
096 (32)
064 (21)
128 (35)
017 0(3)
024 0(6)
007 0(2)
nationalyears =
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nationalcaps(goals) =
manageryears = 1992–1994
1994–1995
managerclubs = Brora Rangers (player-manager)
Deveronvale (player-manager)

Kevin Johnston Bremner (born 7 October 1957) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker. He made nearly 450 appearances in the English and Scottish Football Leagues, representing ten different clubs.

Football career

Born in Banff, now in Aberdeenshire, Bremner began his senior career as an 18-year-old with home-town club Deveronvale of the Highland League. In the 1978–79 season he was part of the team which defeated Huntly to win the Bell's Cup. He finished the season as leading scorer with 27 goals and won the club's player of the year award.cite web
url=http://www.deveronvale.co.uk/history.asp |title=Club honours |publisher=Deveronvale F.C. |accessdate=2008-03-03] Celtic manager Billy McNeill had invited him for a two-week trial, but no contract offer ensued and Bremner left Deveronvale for fellow Highland League club Keith.cite web
url=http://www.deveronvale.co.uk/legends.asp |title=Millennium Legends |publisher=Deveronvale F.C. |accessdate=2008-03-03]

In October 1980 he moved to England to join Colchester United of the Third Division for a fee of £40,000;cite web
url=http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=9130 |title=Kevin Bremner |work=Soccerbase |publisher=Racing Post |accessdate=2008-03-03] that season Colchester were relegated to the Fourth Division. [cite web
url=http://www.fchd.info/COLCHESU.HTM |title=Colchester United |work=Football Club History Database |publisher=Richard Rundle |accessdate=2008-03-03] Bremner played more than 100 matches for the club in all competitions, and during the 1982–83 season he spent short periods on loan at Birmingham City, Wrexham and Plymouth Argyle, scoring a goal for each. In February 1983 he joined Millwall for £25,000. His first goal for the club gave him the distinction of having played and scored in the Football League for five different clubs in the same season.cite web
url=http://www.millwall-history.co.uk/KevinBremner.htm |title=KevinBremner |work=The Millwall History Files |accessdate=2008-03-03] [cite book
author=Matthews, Tony |title=Birmingham City: A Complete Record |publisher=Breedon Books |location=Derby |year=1995 |pages=pp. 74–75 |isbn=978-1-85983-010-9]

He played more than 100 games in all competitions for Millwall, helping them to promotion to the Second Division as Third Division runners-up. At the beginning of the 1984–85 season he joined Reading; as the clubs were unable to agree on a transfer fee, the Football League tribunal valued his services at £35,000. In his second season at the club, he contributed to Reading winning the Third Division title, [cite web
url=http://www.fchd.info/READING.HTM |title=Reading |work=Football Club History Database |publisher=Richard Rundle |accessdate=2008-03-03] before joining Brighton & Hove Albion, where for the third time in four seasons he played his part in his club gaining promotion from the Third Division. [cite web
url=http://www.fchd.info/BRIGHTHA.HTM |title=Brighton & Hove Albion |work=Football Club History Database |publisher=Richard Rundle |accessdate=2008-03-03]

He spent a season at Peterborough United before returning to Scotland where he signed for Dundee, contributing to their Scottish First Division title in 1991–92. [cite web
url=http://www.scottishfootballleague.com/res/documents/SFL/SFLHandbook/Stats3.pdf |title=League Champions 1890/91 - 2006/07 |publisher=Scottish Football League |format=PDF |accessdate=2008-03-03] A short spell on loan at Shrewsbury Town preceded his first foray into management, as player-manager of Highland League club Brora Rangers. He then rejoined Deveronvale as player-manager for one season, in which he was leading goalscorer with 17 goals and managed them to victory in the Aberdeenshire Shield.

He returned to England to take up a coaching role at Gillingham, where he became youth team manager, but was made redundant in April 2003 along with other staff as a cost-cutting measure. [cite news
url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030405/ai_n12686689 |title=Football in brief: Birmingham fight charges after ill-tempered derby |work=The Independent |date=2003-04-05 |accessdate=2008-03-03]

He also coached Kent Elite F.C who played in the 2007 Gothia Cup in Gothenburg and managed to reach the knockout stages.

His older brother Des was also a professional footballer.

Honours

;with Deveronvale as player
* Bell's Cup winners: 1978–79
* Player of the Year: 1978–79
* Club's leading scorer: 1978–79, 1994–95
* Aberdeenshire Shield winners: 1995;with Millwall
* Third Division runners-up: 1984–85;with Reading
* Third Division champions: 1985–86;with Brighton & Hove Albion
* Third Division runners-up: 1987–88;with Dundee
* Scottish First Division champions: 1991–92;with Deveronvale as manager
* Aberdeenshire Shield winners: 1995

References

External links

*cite web
url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player/kevinbremner.htm |title=Kevin Bremner |work=Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database |publisher=Neil Brown

Persondata
NAME = Bremner, Kevin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Bremner, Kevin Johnston
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Professional footballer
DATE OF BIRTH = 1957-10-07
PLACE OF BIRTH = Banff, Banffshire, Scotland
DATE OF DEATH =
PLACE OF DEATH =