Kenny Dalglish
Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish
Scottish association football player and manager (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Scotland
- Born
- 4 March 1951
- Position
- Forward
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1969–1990
Clubs Celtic F.C. · Liverpool F.C.
Career statistics
Club figures here are senior domestic-league matches unless marked otherwise; international figures are full senior caps. Youth, reserve, Olympic, friendly and unofficial matches are excluded from totals. Totals are summed from the individual sourced records below. Where a record is missing, the figure is shown as unavailable — never as zero.
Club league apps
559
Club league goals
230
International caps
102
International goals
30
League goals / match
0.41
International goals / cap
0.29
All official apps
Unavailable
All-competition totals not yet sourced
Goals per 90
Unavailable
Requires minutes for every match
Assists: Unavailable — assists were not recorded consistently before the modern data era.
Club-by-club and international breakdown
| Team | Years | Counts | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celtic F.C.Club | 1969–1977 | League | 204 | 112 |
| Scotland men's national football teamNational team | 1971–1986 | Full caps | 102 | 30 |
| Liverpool F.C.Club | 1977–1990 | League | 355 | 118 |
Season by season
Season-level records are unavailable for this player in the current sources. They will appear here when a licensed season-by-season source is imported.
Team accolades
- ×8
Football League First Division
Domestic
- 1978–79 · Liverpool F.C.
- 1979–80 · Liverpool F.C.
- 1981–82 · Liverpool F.C.
- 1982–83 · Liverpool F.C.
- 1983–84 · Liverpool F.C.
- 1985–86 · Liverpool F.C.
- 1987–88 · Liverpool F.C.
- 1989–90 · Liverpool F.C.
- ×3
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
Continental club
- 1977–78 · Liverpool F.C.
- 1980–81 · Liverpool F.C.
- 1983–84 · Liverpool F.C.
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
No dated individual awards from the catalog are recorded for this player in the current sources. This may reflect incomplete source data rather than an absence of awards; editors can add sourced entries.
Career timeline
1969
- Joins Celtic F.C. — Until 1977
1971
- Senior international debut: Scotland men's national football team — Until 1986
1977
- Joins Liverpool F.C. — Until 1990
1978
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 1977–78 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
1979
- Football League First Division winner — 1978–79 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
1980
- Football League First Division winner — 1979–80 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
1981
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 1980–81 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
1982
- Football League First Division winner — 1981–82 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
1983
- Football League First Division winner — 1982–83 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
1984
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 1983–84 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
- Football League First Division winner — 1983–84 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
1986
- Football League First Division winner — 1985–86 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
1988
- Football League First Division winner — 1987–88 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
1990
- Football League First Division winner — 1989–90 · Liverpool F.C.(provisional)
Statistical score explained
Snapshot v2, methodology v1.0.0, published 27 October 2026. Each category is scored 0–100, multiplied by its weight, and summed. Full methodology →
Overall score
41.4
Rank #78
Partially verified5/5 categories with full evidence · 0% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence32.7+9.80 points
- Best window
- 1980–1984
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.717
- Team honor points in window
- 28
- Peak index
- 14
v1 measures peak through documented recognition (awards and titles) in the best rolling window, because season-level performance data is not available consistently across eras.
Career performanceFull evidence48.4+12.11 points
- League goals per match
- 0.411 → 38.06
- International goals per cap
- 0.294 → 25.94
- International caps per year
- 6.38 → 76.67
Individual accoladesFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.651
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence70.0+10.50 points
- Team honor points
- 48
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (1977–78)
- 8
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (1980–81)
- 8
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (1983–84)
- 8
- Football League First Division (1978–79)
- 3
- Football League First Division (1979–80)
- 3
- Football League First Division (1981–82)
- 3
- Football League First Division (1982–83)
- 3
- Football League First Division (1983–84)
- 3
- Football League First Division (1985–86)
- 3
- Football League First Division (1987–88)
- 3
- Football League First Division (1989–90)
- 3
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence90.3+9.03 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 22 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 10 → 80
- International career length (years)
- 16 → 96.25
Appearance totals are deliberately not used, so accumulating matches alone does not raise this score.
Editorial biography
No editorial biography has been written yet. Biographies are written by hand with sources; none are generated automatically.
Sources
- Wikidata: Kenny Dalglish (Q187198)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Kenny Dalglish 2009 Singapore.jpgCC BY-SA 2.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026