Robert David Crawford (born 19 March 1993) is a Scottish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays 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 ...

for

USL Championship The USL Championship (USLC) is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that began its inaugural season in 2011. The USL is sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) as a Division II league since 2017, pl ...

club

Charleston Battery The Charleston Battery are an American professional association football, soccer club based in Charleston, South Carolina, and member of the USL Championship. Founded in 1993, the Battery are one of the oldest continuously operating professiona ...

. He has previously played for

Rangers A Ranger is typically someone in a military/paramilitary or law enforcement role specializing in patrolling a given territory, called “ranging”. The term most often refers to: * Park ranger or forest ranger, a person charged with protecting and ...

Raith Rovers Raith Rovers Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in the town of Kirkcaldy, Fife. The club was founded in 1883 and currently competes in the Scottish Championship as a member of the Scottish Professional Football Leag ...

East Kilbride East Kilbride (; gd, Cille Bhrìghde an Ear ) is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland and the country's sixth-largest locality by population. It was also designated Scotland's first new town on 6 May 1947. The area lies on a rais ...

, FH,

IFK Mariehamn IFK Mariehamn is an Ålandic football club based in Mariehamn, the capital of the Åland Islands. It plays in the Finnish Premier Division (''Veikkausliiga''). The club is managed by Daniel Norrmén, and it plays its home matches at Wiklö ...

, and

as well as spending time on loan at

Greenock Morton Greenock Morton Football Club is a Scottish professional football club, which plays in the Scottish Championship. The club was founded as Morton Football Club in 1874, making it one of the oldest senior Scottish clubs. Morton was renamed Greeno ...

and

Alloa Athletic Alloa Athletic Football Club is a Scottish association football semi-professional club based in the town of Alloa Alloa (Received Pronunciation ; educated Scottish pronunciation /ˈaloʊa/; gd, Alamhagh, possibly meaning "rock plain") is a ...

Career

Crawford joined Rangers aged eight and played in the club's youth sides before progressing to the first team in the 2012–13 season when the club was demoted to the bottom division. Despite featuring as an unused substitute in the previous season, Crawford made his professional debut on 29 July 2012 in a

Challenge Cup The Challenge Cup is a knockout rugby league cup competition organised by the Rugby Football League, held annually since 1896, with the exception of 1915–1919 and 1939–1940, due to World War I and World War II respectively. It involves am ...

against

Brechin City Brechin City Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the townDespite the name of the football club, Brechin is not an official city. Brechin was historically known as a city because it has a cathedral. of Brechin in Angus. The club w ...

. He went on to score his first goal for the club on 23 September in a league match against Montrose and went on to finish the season with a total of five goals and 27 appearances. Crawford joined

on loan for the first part of the 2014–15 season. He made his first Rangers appearance in over a year against Hearts. The following season on 1 September 2015, Crawford joined

on a season-long loan. On 18 August 2016, Crawford had his contract with Rangers terminated. He signed a short-term contract with

in November 2016. On 23 December 2016, it was announced that Crawford mutually terminated his contract with Raith Rovers. In January 2017, Crawford played three games for

Lowland Football League The Scottish Lowland Football League (SLFL, commonly known as the Lowland League) is a senior football league based in central and southern Scotland. The league sits at level 5 on the Scottish football league system, acting as a feeder to the ...

side

, scoring two goals before heading to America. He appeared in one pre-season game for U.S. club

North Carolina FC North Carolina FC is an American professional soccer team in Cary, North Carolina, a suburb of Raleigh. Founded in 2006, the team plays in USL League One, the third tier of the American league system. The team has played its home games a ...

. On 5 April 2017, he joined Icelandic champions FH. On 15 January 2019,

announced the signing of Crawford on a one-year contract. On 4 February 2020, Crawford joined

club

. On 1 April 2022, Crawford joined USL Championship club

Monterey Bay Monterey Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean located on the coast of the U.S. state of California, south of the San Francisco Bay Area and its major city at the south of the bay, San Jose. San Francisco itself is further north along the coast, by a ...

. On July 21, 2022, Crawford made the move back to

Career statistics

Honours

;Rangers *

Scottish Third Division The Scottish Football League Third Division was the fourth tier of the Scottish football league system between 1994 and 2013. History The Scottish football league system had operated with three divisions in the Scottish Football League (SFL) fro ...

: 2012–13 *

Scottish League One The Scottish League One, known as cinch League One for sponsorship reasons, is the third tier of the Scottish Professional Football League, the league competition for men's professional football clubs in Scotland. The Scottish League One was e ...

: 2013–14 ;Greenock Morton *

: 2014–15

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Crawford, Robbie 1993 births Living people Footballers from Greenock Scottish footballers Association football midfielders Rangers F.C. players Greenock Morton F.C. players Alloa Athletic F.C. players Scottish Football League players Scottish Professional Football League players Raith Rovers F.C. players Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar players Charleston Battery players Úrvalsdeild karla (football) players Scottish expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Iceland Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Iceland Expatriate footballers in Finland Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Finland Expatriate soccer players in the United States Scottish expatriate sportspeople in the United States IFK Mariehamn players USL Championship players Monterey Bay FC players