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Sir
Kenny Dalglish
MBE
Personal information
\n $\"Colour$ Dalglish in 2009
Full name	\nKenneth Mathieson Dalglish^[1]
Date of birth	\n (1951-03-04) 4 March 1951 (age 73)^[1]
Place of birth	\nGlasgow, Scotland
Height	\n5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)^[2]
Position(s)	\nForward
Youth career
1967\u20131968	\nCumbernauld United
1968\u20131969	\nCeltic
Senior career\"
Years	\nTeam	\nApps	\n(Gls)
1969\u20131977	\nCeltic	\n204	\n(111)
1977\u20131990	\nLiverpool	\n355	\n(118)
Total	\n	\n559	\n(229)
International career
1972\u20131976	\nScotland U23^[3]	\n4	\n(2)
1971\u20131986	\nScotland	\n102	\n(30)
Managerial career
1985\u20131991	\nLiverpool
1991\u20131995	\nBlackburn Rovers
1997\u20131998	\nNewcastle United
2000	\nCeltic (interim)
2011\u20132012	\nLiverpool
\n\"Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sir Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish (born 4 March 1951) is a Scottish former football player and manager. He is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time as well as one of Celtic's, Liverpool's and Britain's greatest ever players.^[4] During his career, he made 338 appearances for Celtic and 515 for Liverpool, playing as a forward, and earned a record 102 caps for the Scotland national team, scoring 30 goals, also a joint record. Dalglish won the Ballon d'Or Silver Award in 1983, the PFA Players' Player of the Year in 1983, and the FWA Footballer of the Year in 1979 and 1983. In 2009, FourFourTwo magazine named Dalglish the greatest striker in post-war British football, and he has been inducted into both the Scottish and English Football Halls of Fame. He is highly regarded by Liverpool fans, who still affectionately refer to him as \"King Kenny\", and in 2006 voted him top of the fans' poll \"100 Players Who Shook the Kop\".\n

Dalglish began his career with Celtic in 1971, going on to win four Scottish league championships, four Scottish Cups and one Scottish League Cup with the club. In 1977, Liverpool manager Bob Paisley paid a British transfer record of \u00a3440,000 to take Dalglish to Liverpool. His years at Liverpool were among the club's most successful periods, as he won six English league championships, the FA Cup, four League Cups, five FA Charity Shields, three European Cups and one European Super Cup. In international football, Dalglish made 102 appearances and scored 30 goals for Scotland between 1971 and 1986, becoming their most capped player and joint-leading goal scorer (with Denis Law). He was chosen for Scotland's FIFA World Cup squads in 1974, 1978, 1982 and 1986, playing in all of those tournaments except the latter, due to injury.\n

Dalglish became player-manager of Liverpool in 1985 after the resignation of Joe Fagan, winning a further three First Divisions, two FA Cups and four FA Charity Shields, before resigning in 1991. Eight months later, Dalglish made a return to football management with Blackburn Rovers, whom he led from the Second Division to win the Premier League in 1995. Soon afterwards, he stepped down as manager to become director of football at the club, before leaving altogether in 1996. In January 1997, Dalglish took over as manager at Newcastle United. Newcastle finished as runners-up in the Premier League during his first season, but they only finished 13th in 1997\u201398, which led to his dismissal the following season. Dalglish went on to be appointed director of football at Celtic in 1999, and later briefly manager. He won the Scottish League Cup in 2000 before his departure from the club that year.\n

Between 2000 and 2010, Dalglish focused on charitable concerns, founding The Marina Dalglish Appeal with his wife to raise money for cancer care. In January 2011, Dalglish returned to Liverpool for a spell as caretaker manager after the dismissal of Roy Hodgson, becoming the permanent manager in May 2011. Despite winning the League Cup, which was the club's first trophy since 2006, earning them a place in the UEFA Europa League, and reaching the FA Cup Final, Liverpool only finished 8th in the Premier League, and Dalglish was dismissed in May 2012. In October 2013, Dalglish returned to Anfield as a non-executive director, and Anfield's Centenary Stand was renamed after him in October 2017.\n

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Club\n	Season\n	League\n	National cup^[a]\n	League cup^[b]\n	Europe\n	Other\n	Total\n
Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals\n
Celtic\n	1968\u201369\n	Scottish Division One\n	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	\u2013	1	0\n
1969\u201370\n	Scottish Division One\n	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	\u2013	4	0\n
1970\u201371\n	Scottish Division One\n	3	0	1	0	0	0	1^[c]	0	2^[d]	0	7	0\n
1971\u201372\n	Scottish Division One\n	31	17	4	1	8	5	7^[c]	0	3^[e]	6	53	29\n
1972\u201373\n	Scottish Division One\n	32	21	6	5	11	10	4^[c]	3	3^[e]	0	56	39\n
1973\u201374\n	Scottish Division One\n	33	18	6	1	10	3	7^[c]	2	3^[e]	1	59	25\n
1974\u201375\n	Scottish Division One\n	33	16	5	2	8	3	2^[c]	0	3^[f]	0	51	21\n
1975\u201376\n	Scottish Premier Division\n	35	24	1	1	10	4	5^[g]	3	2^[d]	0	53	32\n
1976\u201377\n	Scottish Premier Division\n	35	15	7	1	10	10	2^[h]	1	\u2013	54	27\n
Total\n	204	111	30	11	60	35	28	9	16	7	338	173\n
Liverpool\n	1977\u201378\n	First Division\n	42	20	1	1	9	6	9^[c]	4	1^[i]	0	62	31\n
1978\u201379\n	First Division\n	42	21	7	4	1	0	4^[c]	0	\u2013	54	25\n
1979\u201380\n	First Division\n	42	16	8	2	7	4	2^[c]	0	1^[i]	1	60	23\n
1980\u201381\n	First Division\n	34	8	2	2	8	7	9^[c]	1	1^[i]	0	54	18\n
1981\u201382\n	First Division\n	42	13	3	2	10	5	6^[c]	2	1^[j]	0	62	22\n
1982\u201383\n	First Division\n	42	18	3	1	7	0	5^[c]	1	1^[i]	0	58	20\n
1983\u201384\n	First Division\n	33	7	0	0	8	2	9^[c]	3	1^[i]	0	51	12\n
1984\u201385\n	First Division\n	36	6	7	0	1	0	7^[c]	0	2^[k]	0	53	6\n
1985\u201386\n	First Division\n	21	3	6	1	2	1	\u2013	2^[l]	2	31	7\n
1986\u201387\n	First Division\n	18	6	0	0	5	2	\u2013	2^[m]	0	25	8\n
1987\u201388\n	First Division\n	2	0	0	0	0	0	\u2013	\u2013	2	0\n
1988\u201389\n	First Division\n	0	0	0	0	1	0	\u2013	1^[n]	0	2	0\n
1989\u201390\n	First Division\n	1	0	0	0	0	0	\u2013	\u2013	1	0\n
Total\n	355	118	37	13	59	27	51	11	13	3	515	172\n
Career total\n	559	229	67	24	119	62	79	20	29	10	853	345\n

National team	Year	Apps	Goals\n
Scotland\n	1971	2	0\n
1972	2	1\n
1973	9	1\n
1974	11	4\n
1975	10	2\n
1976	6	3\n
1977	10	7\n
1978	10	3\n
1979	9	1\n
1980	8	1\n
1981	4	1\n
1982	8	4\n
1983	4	0\n
1984	3	2\n
1985	3	0\n
1986	3	0\n
Total	102	30\n

Team\n	From\n	To\n	Record\n	Ref\n
P	W	D	L	Win %\n
Liverpool\n	30 May 1985\n	21 February 1991\n	307\n	187\n	78\n	42\n	060.9\n	^[140]\n
Blackburn Rovers\n	12 October 1991\n	25 June 1995\n	196\n	103\n	46\n	47\n	052.6\n	^[141]\n
Newcastle United\n	14 January 1997\n	27 August 1998\n	78\n	30\n	22\n	26\n	038.5\n	^[141]\n
Celtic\n	10 February 2000\n	1 June 2000\n	18\n	10\n	4\n	4\n	055.6\n	^[141]\n
Liverpool\n	8 January 2011\n	16 May 2012\n	74\n	35\n	17\n	22\n	047.3\n	^[141]\n
Total\n	673\n	365\n	167\n	141\n	054.2\n	\u2014\n

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Hillsborough disaster

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Newcastle United

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