Joe Thomson (footballer)

Joseph Alexander Thomson (born 14 January 1997) is a Scottish professional footballer, who plays as a midfielder for NIFL Premiership side Larne. Thomson started his senior career at Celtic and he has played on loan at Dumbarton, Livingston, two spells at Queen of the South, Dunfermline Athletic and Derry City. Thomson has also been capped for Scotland at every age level from under-15 to under-21.

Joe Thomson
Personal information
Full name Joseph Alexander Thomson
Date of birth (1997-01-14) 14 January 1997
Place of birth Paisley, Scotland
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Larne
Number 6
Youth career
2006–2009 Rangers
2009–2015 Celtic
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2018 Celtic 1 (0)
2016 → Dumbarton (loan) 18 (2)
2017 → Queen of the South (loan) 17 (4)
2017 → Livingston (loan) 2 (0)
2017–2018 → Queen of the South (loan) 17 (5)
2018–2020 Dunfermline Athletic 38 (2)
2020–2023 Derry City 67 (9)
2023- Larne 31 (6)
International career‡
2011 Scotland U15 1 (0)
2012 Scotland U16 5 (0)
2013–2014 Scotland U17 9 (0)
2015 Scotland U18 2 (2)
2015–2016 Scotland U19 10 (0)
2017 Scotland U20 4 (0)
2017 Scotland U21 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 October 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 4 March 2019

Personal life

Thomson was born in Paisley and played for Gleniffer Thistle Boys Club. He was a youth signing with Rangers before switching to Celtic at under-12 level. He attended Williamwood High School then the Celtic school project at St Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch.[1]

Club career

Celtic

Thomson played regularly for the Celtic Development Squad[2] and featured in the first-team squad versus Villarreal C.F.,[3] PSV Eindhoven, FC Den Bosch, Stade Rennais and Sparta Prague who he scored against in the Maspalomas Cup. On 22 August 2015, Thomson made his first-team debut when he appeared as a substitute during the second half of Celtic's 3–1 victory at Tannadice versus Dundee United.[4] He left Celtic at the end of the 2017–18 season.[5]

Loan spells

Thomson joined Scottish Championship club Dumbarton in August 2016, for the first half of the season.[6] He scored his first senior goal in a 2–2 draw with Dunfermline Athletic on 29 October 2016.[7] Thomson departed the Sons on 31 December 2016, when his loan deal ended.[8]

On 1 January 2017, Thomson subsequently joined fellow Scottish Championship club Queen of the South for the second half of the season, scoring on his debut against St Mirren on 7 January 2017.[9] Thomson then returned to his parent club, Celtic at the end of the 2016–17 season.[10]

At the start of August 2017, Thomson was sent out on loan to Livingston for six months to gain first-team experience,[11] but was recalled back to his parent club in early September 2017, due to a disagreement between the clubs regarding the handling of the player, having only played three league matches for the West Lothian side.

On 29 December 2017, Thomson joined Queen of the South for a second spell on loan. He initially joined on an emergency loan deal, although he remained with the side until the end of the season.[12] On 20 March 2018, Thomson scored twice in the club's first league victory at Tannadice since 1933, in a 3–2 win versus Dundee United.[13]

Dunfermline Athletic

On 16 June 2018, Thomson signed for Scottish Championship club Dunfermline Athletic.[14][15] He made his debut starting in a 3–0 win versus Peterhead in the Scottish League Cup on 17 July 2018,[16] and scored his first goal in a league match against Dundee United on 4 August 2018.[17][18] Thomson was voted Fans Player of the Year in his first season with Dunfermline. After missing part of his second season recovering from injury Thomson was released in May 2020 at the end of his contract along with 16 other players as COVID-19 impacted the clubs financial position.[19]

Derry City

In June 2020, Thomson joined League of Ireland club Derry City on an initial 18 months contract and he scored in his Europa League debut. In November 2021 after winning the previous season's Supporters Player of the Year award Thomsons contract was extended for another 2 years.

Thomson won the 2022 FAI cup with Derry City.

Larne

Thomson signed for Larne on 6 January 2023 and made his debut away to Glentoran on 14 January 2023.

He made his first starting appearance for Larne on 17 January 2023 in a County Antrim Cup Final victory over Linfield.

International career

Thomson was selected for the Scotland U17 team in the UEFA under-17 Championship in 2014,[20] where the Netherlands beat them in the semi-finals.[21]

He was selected for the under-20 squad in the 2017 Toulon Tournament.[22] After a historic first ever win against Brazil, which was at any level.[23] Scotland later won the bronze medal.[24] It was the nations first ever medal at the competition.[25]

In March 2017, Thomson made his debut for the Scotland Under-21 team in a friendly versus Estonia.[26][27]

Career statistics
As of 5 October 2021
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Celtic 2015–16[28] Scottish Premiership 1000000010
2016–17[29] 0000000000
2017–18[30] 0000000000
Total 1000000010
Celtic U-23s 2016–17[29] SPFL Development League ———3[lower-alpha 1]030
Dumbarton (loan) 2016–17[29] Scottish Championship 172100000182
Queen of the South (loan) 2016–17[29] 184000000184
Livingston (loan) 2017–18[30] 2100001[lower-alpha 1]031
Queen of the South (loan) 2017–18[30] 175100000185
Dunfermline Athletic 2018–19[31] 26210301[lower-alpha 1]0312
2019–20[32] 110100000120
Total 382203010442
Derry City 2020[33] League of Ireland Premier Division 9120—1[lower-alpha 2]1122
2021[33] 19420——214
Total 285400011336
Career total 1201980306113720
  1. Appearances in the Scottish Challenge Cup
  2. Appearances in the UEFA Europa League

Honours

Derry City

Larne

References
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  2. "Fifteen for '15: Celtic's Joe Thomson set to build on youth success". STV Sport. 15 December 2014. Archived from the original on 15 December 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  3. Dalziel, Martin (3 September 2014). "Celts lose to Villarreal in charity match". Celtic FC. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  4. Moffat, Colin (22 August 2014). "Dundee Utd 1-3 Celtic". BBC Sport. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  5. "Playing for the jersey every game". Dunfermline Athletic. 16 June 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  6. Findlay, Alan (5 August 2016). "Proming Celtic youth player joins". Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  7. Findlay, Alan (29 October 2016). "Sons held at home v Dunfermline Ath". Retrieved 29 October 2016.
  8. Findlay, Alan (31 December 2016). "Player departures". Dumbarton FC. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  9. "Thomas and Thomson To Join". Queen of the South FC. 1 January 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  10. "Squad Upate". Queen of the South FC. 6 May 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  11. "Joe Thomson arrives on loan". Livingston FC. 11 August 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  12. "Breaking news: Midfielder returns". Queen of the South FC. 29 December 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  13. "Dundee United 2–3 Queen of the South". BBC Sport. BBC. 20 March 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
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  16. "Dunfermline 3 Peterhead 0". Dunfermline Athletic FC. 17 July 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  17. "Dundee United 2 Dunfermline 3". Dunfermline Athletic FC. 4 August 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  18. Dewar, Heather (4 August 2018). "Dundee United 2–3 Dunfermline". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  19. "Dunfermline release 17 players to 'protect future of club'". BBC Sport. BBC. 22 May 2020. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
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  21. Stewart, Craig P. (19 May 2014). "Netherlands 5–0 Scotland: Positives for U-17s". The Scotsman. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  22. "Scotland squad for Toulon announced". Scottish FA. 17 May 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  23. "Scotland U20 1-0 Brazil U20: Young Scots make history". The Scotsman. 3 June 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  24. "Scotland finish third at Toulon Tournament with 3-0 win". Scottish FA. 10 June 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  25. "JULES AND HOLSGROVE TAKE BRONZE WITH SCOTLAND IN TOULON". Reading FC. 11 June 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  26. "Scotland U21 profile". Fitbastats.com. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  27. "Scotland Under-21 0-0 Estonia Under-21". BBC Sport. 28 March 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  28. "Games played by Joe Thomson in 2015/2016". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  29. "Games played by Joe Thomson in 2016/2017". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  30. "Games played by Joe Thomson in 2017/2018". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  31. "Games played by Joe Thomson in 2018/2019". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  32. "Games played by Joe Thomson in 2019/2020". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  33. "Scotland - J. Thomson - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway".
  34. "County Antrim Shield final: Larne complete hat-trick with shootout win after lengthy injury delay". BBC Sport. BBC. 17 January 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  35. "Larne secure historic first Irish League title". BBC Sport. BBC. 14 April 2023.
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