Bernie Gallacher
{{short description|Scottish footballer}}
{{for|Scottish golfer|Bernard Gallacher}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2017}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Bernie Gallacher
| image =
| fullname = Bernard Gallacher{{Hugman|6958|accessdate=15 April 2020}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|1967|3|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = Johnstone, Scotland
| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|8|28|1967|3|22|df=y}}
| death_place = Sutton Coldfield, England
| position = Defender
| years1 = 1985–1991 | clubs1 = Aston Villa | caps1 = 57 | goals1= 0
| years2 = 1990 | clubs2 = → Blackburn Rovers (loan) | caps2 = 4 | goals2 = 0
| years3 = 1991 | clubs3 = Doncaster Rovers | caps3 = 2 | goals3 = 0
| years4 = 1991–1994 | clubs4 = Brighton & Hove Albion | caps4 = 45 | caps5 = 5
| years5 = 1994 | clubs5 = Northampton Town | goals4 = 1 | goals5 = 0
| totalcaps = 113 | totalgoals = 1
}}
Bernard Gallacher (22 March 1967 – 28 August 2011) was a Scottish professional footballer who made 113 appearances in the English Football League, playing predominantly at left-back.
Career
Born in Johnstone, Scotland, Gallacher joined Aston Villa as a 16-year-old apprentice on leaving school in 1983. He progressed through youth levels, signing a professional contract in March 1985, before making his first team debut on the final day of the 1986-87 season against Manchester United, at the end of a season where Villa were relegated from the First Division.
Gallacher appeared in all but one of Aston Villa's 44 Second Division games the following season as Villa gained promotion back to the top flight at the first attempt as Second Division runners-up. His final game for the club was against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in November 1990. In all he made 57 league appearances for Villa.{{cite web | url=http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/aston-villa-fc/aston-villa-news/2011/08/31/aston-villa-graham-taylor-pays-tribute-to-bernie-gallagher-97319-29332534/ | title=Aston Villa: Graham Taylor pays tribute to Bernie Gallagher | publisher=Birmingham Mail | date=31 August 2011 | accessdate=1 September 2011 | archive-date=4 October 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004205926/http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/aston-villa-fc/aston-villa-news/2011/08/31/aston-villa-graham-taylor-pays-tribute-to-bernie-gallagher-97319-29332534/ | url-status=dead }}
Gallacher spent a loan spell at Blackburn before joining Doncaster Rovers and then Brighton. In 1994 his career was ended by injury at the age of 27 following a short term as a non-contract player with Northampton Town.
Death
Gallacher died in Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield, England on 28 August 2011, aged 44.{{cite web|url=http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2435896,00.html|title=Bernie Gallacher remembered|publisher=Aston Villa F.C.|date=30 August 2011|accessdate=1 September 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003023134/http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0%2C%2C10265~2435896%2C00.html|archivedate=3 October 2012|df=dmy-all}}
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Category:Scottish men's footballers
Category:Aston Villa F.C. players
Category:Blackburn Rovers F.C. players
Category:Doncaster Rovers F.C. players
Category:Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
Category:Northampton Town F.C. players
Category:Footballers from Johnstone
Category:Men's association football fullbacks