John Hewitt (born 9 February 1963 in

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) is a Scottish former footballer and manager, who spent the majority of his playing career with

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, but also had spells with

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and St Mirren among others. He also spent a short time in management in Ireland with

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before retiring from the game. He is best known as the scorer of a number of significant goals for Aberdeen, including the winning goal in the 1983 Cup Winners' Cup final. He was inducted into the Aberdeen FC "Hall of Fame" as one of the founding members in 2003.

Playing career

Hewitt was a product of Cornhill Primary and Middlefield Boys' Club in

, and was a schoolboy international before signing for

, the club he had supported as a boy, in the face of competition from a number of other clubs. He made his full debut for Aberdeen in 1979 at the age of 17, and by the 1981–82 season had become a regular in the side. in January 1982, Hewitt scored the only goal of the game in a third round

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. This goal, timed at 9.6 seconds, was not only the fastest recorded in Scottish Cup history, but proved to be the first step in Aberdeen's route to the following season's European success; the club qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup by going on to win the Scottish Cup that season. The following season, Hewitt again featured prominently for Aberdeen, but it is for two substitute appearances in Europe that he is best known. On 16 March 1983, Hewitt came off the bench to score the winning goal in the Cup Winners' Cup quarter-final tie against

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, and then repeated the feat by scoring the winner in extra time in the final against

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BT Sport, 23 September 2015 Hewitt also scored twice in the 1986 Scottish Cup Final against Hearts – a game in which he was named

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. In all, he won three championship medals, four Scottish Cup winners medals, one

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winner's medal as well as the Cup Winners' Cup and the following season's

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while at Aberdeen. In 1989, Hewitt moved to Celtic, but failed to break into the first team on a regular basis, and subsequently spent four more successful seasons with St Mirren. A short, unsuccessful spell as player-manager of Dundalk was notable only for the fact that he scored the only goal of a pre-season friendly game against Aberdeen. Hewitt retired from the game after a season as assistant manager to his former Aberdeen team-mate

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References

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