Andy Hunter (11 October 1883 – 23 August 1933) was an Irish

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who played as a

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Club career

Hunter joined

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in 1904 having played youth football for Woodvale and Linfield Swifts, as well as the Royal Army Medical Corps . Hunter was part of the side that won the

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in 1905 and the Irish League in 1905–06, before joining

Belfast Celtic F.C. Belfast Celtic Football Club was an Irish football club. Founded in 1891 in Belfast, it was one of the most successful teams in Ireland until it withdrew permanently from the Irish League in 1949. The club left the league for political reason ...

in May 1907. After one season with Celtic, Hunter joined

Glentoran Glentoran Football Club is a professional football club based in East Belfast, Northern Ireland, that plays in the NIFL Premiership. The club was founded in 1882 and has since won more than 130 major honours. They are one of three Northern Iris ...

for a season, before signing for

The Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday Football Club is a professional association football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system. Formed in 1867 as an off ...

in March 1909. Hunter scored his first goal for the English side in the 2–1 victory over

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on 10 April 1909. Hunter returned for a loan spell at Distillery in the winter of 1909, returning to The Wednesday in the spring of 1910, where he scored two further goals in a 2–1 win against

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. He would leave Wednesday in the summer of 1910, rejoining Glentoran where he won the

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and

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in 1911, before retiring in 1912. Hunter scored 30 goals in 108 appearances for Distillery across his spells with the club and 25 goals in 63 appearances during both periods with Glentoran.

International career

Hunter made his

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debut against

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during the 1905-06 British Home Championship, and made 8 international appearances, his only goal coming in his final international against Wales in 1909.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, Andy Irish association footballers (before 1923) NIFL Premiership players Men's association football forwards Northern Ireland men's amateur international footballers Pre-1950 IFA men's international footballers 1883 births 1933 deaths Lisburn Distillery F.C. players Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players Glentoran F.C. players Association footballers from Belfast Men's association footballers from Northern Ireland Belfast Celtic F.C. players