David Provan (11 March 1941 – 26 November 2016) was a Scottish professional footballer, who played for
Rangers
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* Park ranger or forest ranger, a person charged with prot ...
,
Crystal Palace
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* Crystal Palace Barracks, London, Ontario
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,
Plymouth Argyle
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and
St Mirren. Provan also played for
Scotland
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and the
Scottish League XI
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.
Career
Provan was a product of the
Rangers
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* Park ranger or forest ranger, a person charged with prot ...
youth team and played as a
full back. He made his debut on 27 December 1958, in a league match away to
Third Lanark which Rangers won 3–2. He helped the club win a domestic treble in
1963–64 and played in the
1967 European Cup Winners' Cup Final
The 1967 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was a football match contested between Bayern Munich of West Germany and Rangers of Scotland. The match took place at the Städtisches Stadion in Nuremberg, West Germany on 31 May 1967 in front of a cro ...
, which Rangers lost 1–0 to
Bayern Munich
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.
Provan is one of the players elected to
Rangers' Hall of Fame.
He left the club in June 1970
and joined English club
Crystal Palace
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Places Canada
* Crystal Palace Complex (Dieppe), a former amusement park now a shopping complex in Dieppe, New Brunswick
* Crystal Palace Barracks, London, Ontario
* Crystal Palace (Montreal), an exhibition buildin ...
, although he was not there for long, making only two senior appearances in total,
before moving on in March 1971, to
Plymouth Argyle
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.
He stayed at Plymouth for five seasons and made over 100 appearances.
Provan subsequently played for
St Mirren where he finished his senior career in 1975,
[ and began his coaching career under then-]manager
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Alex Ferguson
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. He later went on to manage Albion Rovers from 1987 to 1991, leading the club to the Scottish Football League Second Division
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History
The Second Division was created in 1975, as part of a wider reconstruction of the Scottish Football League (SFL ...
title in 1988–9.[
Rangers FC announced on 26 November 2016 that Provan had died, following a long illness.]
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1941 births
2016 deaths
Footballers from Falkirk
Men's association football fullbacks
Scottish men's footballers
Scotland men's international footballers
Rangers F.C. players
Crystal Palace F.C. players
Plymouth Argyle F.C. players
St Mirren F.C. players
Scottish football managers
Albion Rovers F.C. managers
Rangers F.C. non-playing staff
Scottish Football League players
English Football League players
Scottish Football League representative players
Scotland men's under-23 international footballers
Scottish Football League managers
Place of death missing
20th-century Scottish sportsmen
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