Liam Henderson

Liam Henderson (born 25 April 1996) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Serie B club Sampdoria.

Henderson began his senior career at Celtic, winning the 2015 Scottish League Cup Final, and the 2016–17 Scottish Premiership. On loan at Norwegian club Rosenborg, he won the 2015 Norwegian league and cup double. On loan and after coming on at 2–1 down as a 70th minute substitute, he delivered two assists from corner kicks in the 2016 Scottish Cup Final in the comeback 3–2 win over Rangers. That ended Hibernian's 114 year wait to lift the Scottish Cup for the third time.

Playing in Italy since 2018, Henderson has also played for Bari, Hellas Verona, Lecce and Palermo. In each of his six seasons in which he has played 2nd divisional football, he ended the season playing in promotional play-offs (with Hibs and each of his five Italian clubs). In these six campaigns he succeeded once, when Verona won 2019 promotion from Serie B. He holds numerous appearance records for Scotsmen playing professional football in Italy, including the first Scot to play in 100 men's Serie A games.

Henderson captained Scotland up to and including under-21 among his 37 youth international caps.

Henderson started his football career with Broxburn Athletic before joining Celtic.

Henderson signed for Celtic in 2008. He featured for the club's development squad in midfield and was included in the first team squad for their pre-season trip to Germany in the summer of 2013. He played pre-season at home versus Ukrainian side Sevastopol, beside higher profile debutants Virgil van Dijk and Amido Balde. In 2013–14 Henderson played at both under-20 level and in the UEFA Youth League.

His competitive first team début, aged 17, was on 6 December 2013. He subbed on in Celtic's 5–0 league win at Motherwell. On 13 March 2014, Henderson's first competitive match start was in the 3-0 league win at Kilmarnock. Henderson scored his first Celtic goal on 26 March 2014. This was Celtic's second in the 5–1 league clinching win at Partick Thistle. His March form won him the SPFL Young Player of the Month award for that month. Manager Neil Lennon commented "He's been absolutely excellent", and "His attitude to work is fantastic and there's certainly a willingness on his part to get better". All of his 8 competitive first team games that season were in the Premiership (2 games short of the minimum 10 required to be awarded a winner's medal).

Henderson made 15 Celtic first team appearances in all competitions in 2014/15. He scored with a left-footed shot on the turn at Hamilton Academical on 17 January 2015. He substituted Stuart Armstrong on 75 minutes to assist John Guidetti's 93rd-minute equaliser in the 3-3 Europa League first leg home tie versus Inter. Henderson was unused from the bench when Inter went through when winning the return 1-0. He subbed on in the 82nd minute of Celtic's 2–0 League Cup Final win over Dundee United.