John Kay (Scottish footballer)

Not to be confused with John Kay (English footballer) or John Kaye (footballer).

John Kay

Kay in Scotland kit, 1882
Personal information
Full name	John Leck Kay
Date of birth	c. 1858
Place of birth	Crossmyloof, Scotland
Date of death	1933
Place of death	Glasgow, Scotland
Position(s)	Outside forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
18??–1879	Third Lanark
1879–1883	Queen's Park
1883–18??	Third Lanark
	Pollokshields Athletic
International career
1880–1884	Scotland	6	(5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Leck Kay was a Scottish footballer of the 1870s and 1880s who played mainly as a left winger.

Kay's first senior club was Third Lanark where he won a Scottish Cup runners-up medal in 1878. He moved to Queen's Park in 1879 where he won three successive Scottish Cup winners' medals in 1880, 1881 and 1882, plus two Glasgow Merchants Charity Cups. He returned to Third Lanark in 1883 and later had a short spell at Pollokshields Athletic before emigrating to the United States in 1887.

He was capped 6 times by the Scotland national team between 1880 and 1884, scoring 5 goals.

External links

• John Kay at the Scottish Football Association