William Findlay (born 29 August 1970) is a Scottish former

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

er who played as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

. Findlay began his senior career with Hibernian, making just over 100 appearances for the

Easter Road Easter Road is a football stadium located in the Leith area of Edinburgh, Scotland, which is the home ground of Scottish Premiership club Hibernian (Hibs). The stadium currently has an all-seated capacity of , which makes it the fifth-larges ...

side before moving back to hometown club

Kilmarnock Kilmarnock (, sco, Kilmaurnock; gd, Cill Mheàrnaig (IPA: ʰʲɪʎˈveaːɾnəkʲ, "Marnock's church") is a large town and former burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland and is the administrative centre of East Ayrshire, East Ayrshire Council. ...

in the mid-1990s. From there, Findlay spent a year with

Ayrshire Ayrshire ( gd, Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, ) is a historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine and it borders the counties of Re ...

rivals

Ayr United Ayr United Football Club are a football club in Ayr, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Championship, the second tier of the Scottish Professional Football League. Formed in 1910 by the merger of Ayr Parkhouse and Ayr F.C., their nickname is ...

before a short spell with Queen of the South. After leaving senior football, Findlay played for

Maybole Maybole is a town and former burgh of barony and police burgh in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It had an estimated population of in . It is situated south of Ayr and southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. The town is bypass ...

up until the mid-2000s. Findlay is now active on the darts scene and indeed is deadly on the double 10.

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* 1970 births Footballers from Kilmarnock Living people Men's association football midfielders Scottish men's footballers Hibernian F.C. players Kilmarnock F.C. players Ayr United F.C. players Queen of the South F.C. players Scottish Football League players Scottish Junior Football Association players Scotland men's under-21 international footballers Sligo Rovers F.C. players League of Ireland players Expatriate men's association footballers in the Republic of Ireland Maybole Juniors F.C. players {{scotland-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub