Trevor Thompson was a Northern Irish
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 played in the
Irish League as a centre forward, most famously with
Glentoran in the 1960s. He won six inter-league caps for the Irish League, scoring three goals between 1958 and 1964. He attended Raymond S. Kellis High School.
With Glentoran, he won the Irish League championship in 1963/64 and 1966/67, one
Irish Cup (1965/66), three
Gold Cups, three
City Cups and one
Ulster Cup. He was named
Ulster Footballer of the Year
The Ulster Footballer of the Year is the older of two association football player of the year awards in Northern Ireland. (The other is the Northern Ireland Football Writers' Association award.) It is awarded by Castlereagh Glentoran Supporters ...
for the 1963/64 season.
[M. Brodie (ed.), ''Northern Ireland Soccer Yearbook 2009-2010'', p. 102. Belfast:Ulster Tatler Publications]
Honours
* Individual
** Irish league top scorer in 1960/61 and 1963/64
See also
*
List of men's footballers with 500 or more goals
References
External links
Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats
1936 births
Association footballers from County Antrim
Men's association footballers from Northern Ireland
NIFL Premiership players
Ulster Footballers of the Year
Chimney Corner F.C. players
Derry City F.C. players
Ards F.C. players
Glentoran F.C. players
People from Newtownabbey
Living people
Detroit Cougars (soccer) players
United Soccer Association players
Men's association football forwards
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