Billy Little

For other people of the same name, see William Little.

Billy Little
Personal information
Date of birth	(1940-02-04) 4 February 1940
Place of birth	Dumfries, Scotland
Playing position	Forward
Youth career
	Dumfries Academy
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1959–1969	Aberdeen	199	(61)
1969–1970	Caledonian
1970–1971	Falkirk	4	(1)
1971–1972	Stirling Albion	18	(3)
1972–1973	East Stirlingshire	18	(1)
Total		239	(66)
Teams managed
1977–1979	Falkirk
1979–1980	Queen of the South
1983–1985	East Stirlingshire
1990	Alloa Athletic
1993–1997	East Stirlingshire
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Billy Little (born 4 February 1940) in Dumfries is a Scottish ex-professional association footballer and manager best known for his time at Aberdeen.

Playing career

Little joined Aberdeen in 1957 and made over 300 appearances for Aberdeen scoring 98 goals over 12 years.^[1] While at Aberdeen Little was a Scottish League and under 23 internationalist.^[2] Little moved to Australia in 1969.^[1] He returned to Scotland a year later signing for Inverness Caley. He then had spells with Falkirk, Stirling Albion, East Stirlingshire and Alloa Athletic.^[1]

Management

Little managed Falkirk^[3] and hometown club Queen of the South. It was he who as manager of Queens signed Jimmy Robertson for the Palmerston Park club.^[4]

Honours

East Stirlingshire

Stirlingshire Cup : 1984-85

References

Falkirk F.C. – managers

Nicol (1905–24)
Reid (1924–27)
Richardson (1927–32)
Orr (1932–35)
Craig (1935–50)
Shankly (1950–56)
McPhie^c (1956–57)
R. Smith (1957–59)
Younger (1959–60)
McCrae (1960–65)
Kean (1965–66)
Prentice (1966–68)
Rowan^c (1968)
Cunningham (1968–1972)
Prentice (1973–75)
McKenzie^c (1975)
Miller (1975–77)
Little (1977–79)
Hagart (1979–82)
Bennie^c (1982)
Totten (1982–83)
Abel (1983–84)
Shaw^c (1984)
Lamont (1984–87)
Clarke (1987–88)
Duffy (1988–89)
Sullivan^c (1989)
Lamont (1989–90)
Sullivan^c (1990)
Jefferies (1990–95)
Lambie (1995–96)
Collins^c (1996)
Bannon (1996)
Totten (1996–2002)
McCall (2002–03)
Coyle & Hughes (2003)
Hughes (2003–09)
May (2009–10)
Pressley (2010–13)
A. Smith^c (2013)
Holt (2013–14)
Houston (2014–)

Queen of the South F.C. – managers

Directors (1919–21)
Dodds (1922–23)
Directors (1924–27)
Wright (1928–31)
Directors (1932–1934)
McLachlan (1935–37)
Ferguson (1937–38)
McKinnell, Sr. (1938–46)
McKinnell, Jr. (1946–61)
Farm (1961–64)
Directors (1964–65)
Shearer (1965–66)
Husband (1967–68)
Directors (1968–70)
Davis (1970–71)
Easton (1971–73)
McLean (1973–75)
Jackson (1975–78)
Hunter (1978–79)
Little (1979–80)
Herd (1980–81)
Hood (1981–82)
Busby (1982–84)
Clark (1984–86)
Jackson (1986–87)
Wilson (1987–89)
McLaren (1989–90)
McGarvey (1990–91)
MacLeod (1991–92)
Frye (1992–93)
McLaren (1993–96)
Alexander (1996–99)
Rowe & Eadie (1999–00)
Connolly (2000–04)
Scott (2004–05)
McCall (2005–07)
Chisholm (2007–10)
Brannigan (2010–11)
MacPherson (2011–12)
Johnston (2012–13)
McIntyre (2013–14)
Fowler (2014–16)
Skelton^c (2016–)

East Stirlingshire F.C. – managers

Binnie (1966)
Crawford (1966–70)
Rowan (1970–71)
Shaw (1971–74)
A. Ferguson (1974)
Ure (1974–75)
McLindon (1975–77)
Lamont (1977–81)
M. Ferguson (1981–82)
Little (1983–85)
Whiteford (1985–87)
Lawson (1987–88)
Connell (1988–89)
Mackin (1989–90)
Sullivan (1990–92)
McCulley (1992–93)
Little (1993–97)
Brownlie (1997–98)
McCann (1998–99)
Fairley (2000–01)
Ross (2001–02)
Russell (2002)
Diver (2002–03)
Morrison (2003–04)
Newall (2004–06)
Wylde (2006–08)
McInally (2008–11)
Coughlin (2011–14)
Tully (2014–)

Alloa Athletic F.C. – managers

McStay (1938–40)
Crapnell (1945–46)
Lipton (1946–47)
Simpson (1947–48)
Hogg (1948–49)
Lipton (1949–51)
McCulloch (1951–52)
Lees (1952–55)
Kerr (1955–59)
McPherson (1959–69)
McCallum (1969–71)
Crawford (1971–72)
McLindon (1972–74)
Wilson (1974–80)
Totten (1980–82)
Garner (1982–84)
Thomson (1984–86)
Sullivan (1986–87)
Abel (1987–90)
Little (1990)
McCann (1990–93)
Lamont (1993–95)
McAuley (1995–96)
Hendrie (1996–98)
Christie (1999–2003)
Hendrie (2003–06)
Maitland (2006–11)
Hartley (2011–14)
Smith (2014–15)
Lennon (2015)
Ross (2015–)

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