[Swampy]

Archibald at Barca, O'Connor at Lokomotiv - some of these are obvious. But in recent times (say, since 1970), how many Scots have played in the top leagues outside the UK?

[Whistle Blower]

Off the top of my head

Brewster - Ionikos
Johnston - Nantes
Black - Metz
Lambert - Dortmund
McLeod - Dortmund
Jordan - AC Milan
Souness - Sampdoria

[pollymac]

Alan 'good, good, good personal friend of mine' McInally - Bayern Munich
John Collins - Monaco
Mark McGhee - SV Hamburg

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[allym1877]

Jamie Fullarton - Bastia
Brian O'Neil - Wolfsburg (?)

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[igor]

Scott Booth - Dortmund
Robbie Winters & Charlie Miller - Brann

Edit, did anglo-Scot Richard Hughes not play for Atalanta? Although that might have been in the second division.

Also, Jamie Stevenson played in Spain but probably not in the first team.

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[MB]

Jim Bett played for F.C. Lokeren back in the 1980s.

Steve Nicol played for New England Revolution as player-manager.

Scot Gemmill currently plays for New Zealand Knights I think.

[CK]

Alex Williams - Armadale, Australia

[Russ]

CK, on Aug 15 2006, 19:21, said:

Alex Williams - Armadale, Australia

Is that not the divison below the Premier.

[Swampy]

Armadale aren't top league.

I just remembered some others.

Steven Tweed played for MSV Duisburg but they might have been in the 2. Bundesliga at the time. I think he then played in the J-League?

There's a guy playing in the Icelandic top division, think he's ex-Aberdeen, can't remember his name now, I had it a second ago

[Skyline Drifter]

Ian Anderson played in France somewhere.

[MB]

Skyline Drifter, on Aug 16 2006, 13:33, said:

Ian Anderson played in France somewhere.

He played for Toulouse, as did Derek McInnes I seem to remember.

[Swampy]

MB, on Aug 16 2006, 13:40, said:

He played for Toulouse, as did Derek McInnes I seem to remember.

When McInnes and Anderson played for Toulouse they were in Ligue 2. They went up that season but neither was around to play in Ligue 1.

[diamonds2002]

Stuart Taylor - had a succesful spell with Drogheda in the Eircom league.

[ICTChris]

Spanky Rodriguez, on Aug 16 2006, 15:24, said:

I'm pretty sure that Jamie Smith played in Holland before he signed for Aberdeen. Not sure if it was the top league though.

He played for Den Haag in teh top league.

Stephen McPhee played for Beira Mar. Paul Ritchie (ex Caley, Hamilton and Brechin striker) played for Happy Valley in Hong Kong .

[allym1877]

Spanky Rodriguez, on Aug 16 2006, 10:57, said:

Barry Smith (ex-Dundee) is playing in Iceland and I think David "Perm-tan" Hannah might be playing there as well

David Winnie was player of the year in Iceland in 1998!

[uberman]

Rab Mckinnon played in the dutch league for twente enschede (i think) pretty sure he also scored a debut goal for them against ajax

[centralparker]

Mo Johnston had a spell at Nantes.

Davie Dodds (aka The Elephant Man) played for Neuchatel Xamax

[H Wragg]

The legendary Chico played for Djurgarden in Sweden although I don't know if they were a top flight team at that time.

[uberman]

denis law - torino
joe jordan - ac milan

[Swampy]

H Wragg, on Aug 16 2006, 19:47, said:

The legendary Chico played for Djurgarden in Sweden although I don't know if they were a top flight team at that time.

He went on loan in 1992 and they were relegated that season, although he made no appearances.

In the second tier in 1993 he played 12 times, scoring 3 goals.

So, 50/50 there.

[igor]

Three ex East Fife players, John Inglis in Bulgaria, Stevie Pittman in the U$A and Derek McWilliams in Sweden (though i'm not sure what division)

[Swampy]

Inglis played for Levski Sofia in the top division for two seasons, and later Botev Plovdiv in the second tier for 3 games (they were newly relegated and bounced straight back.)

Pittman was a Yank so he's not a Scot Abroad However, played for two MLS clubs, the now-defunct Tampa Bay Mutiny and the Kansas City Wiz (as they were then, Wizards now.)

Can't find any record of McWilliams' playing stats outside Scotland so I assume it was lower league.