Draft:Blair Yule
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{{Short description|Scottish footballer}}
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Blair Yule is a Scottish footballer who plays for {{Scottish football updater|CoveRang}} club Cove Rangers.
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Blair Yule
| caption =
| image = 220px
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1992|8|23}}
| birth_place = Aberdeen, Scotland
| height =
| position = Midfielder
| currentclub = Cove Rangers
| clubnumber = 8
| years1 = 2010–2017
| clubs1 = Cove Rangers
| caps1 = 19
| goals1 = 4
| years2 = 2010
| clubs2 = → Dyce Juniors (loan)
| caps2 = 0
| goals2 = 0
| years3 = 2017–2018
| clubs3 = Arbroath
| caps3 = 44
| goals3 = 2
| years4 = 2018–
| clubs4 = Cove Rangers
| caps4 = 186
| goals4 = 8
| club-update = 30 January 2025 (UTC)
}}
Yule is one of Cove Rangers' record appearance holders and only one of four players to have made over 100 appearances in the SPFL for Cove alongside Fraser Fyvie, Mitch Megginson and Connor Scully. He is also one of the clubs most successful players, having won 5 titles during his time at Cove. Yule is a versatile player being able to play all across the midfield and defence.
Club career
Yule joined Cove Rangers from Montrose U20s in July 2010. Yule's father Raymond also played for Cove.{{cite web | url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/cove-rangers/4186526/cove-rangers-ray-yule-aaron-scully/ | title=Family matters as Cove Rangers look to take next historic step with promotion to the Championship | date=23 April 2022 }} After spending a short spell on loan at Dyce Juniors, Yule in 2011 became a regular in the Cove Rangers team.{{cite web | url=https://coverangersfc.com/2023/09/12/blair-yule-gets-well-deserved-testimonial/ | title=Blair Yule Gets Well-Deserved Testimonial | date=12 September 2023 }} Yule won the Highland League on two occasions before moving to Arbroath in the summer of 2017{{cite web | url=https://spfl.co.uk/news/yule-joins-arbroath-from-cove-rangers | title=Yule joins Arbroath from Cove Rangers | SPFL }}, after a season at Arbroath, Yule returned to Cove{{cite web | url=https://arbroathfc.co.uk/blair-yule/ | title=Blair Yule | date=27 June 2018 }}, where he has remained ever since. During his second spell Cove achieved great success, winning the Highland League one more time before achieving promotion into the SPFL. Yule would be apart of Cove's rise to the Championship winning both the League Two and League One{{cite web | url=https://coverangersfc.com/2022/04/23/cinch-league-one-champions/ | title=Cinch League One Champions! | date=23 April 2022 }} titles. Yule was awarded a testimonial match in September 2024, which Cove lost 2-0 to an Aberdeen XI.{{cite web | url=https://coverangersfc.com/2024/08/09/blair-yule-testimonial-match/ | title=Blair Yule Testimonial Match | date=9 August 2024 }}
Honours
=Club=
;Cove Rangers
=Individual=
- Scottish League One Player of the Month: December 2021
Career statistics
https://uk.soccerway.com/players/blair-yule/215345/
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition | ||||||||||
| rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season !colspan="3"|League !colspan="2"|National cup !colspan="2"|League cup !colspan="2"|Other !colspan="2"|Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| rowspan="8"|Cove Rangers
|rowspan="7"|Highland League |0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2011–12
|0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2012–13
|0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
| 2013–14
|0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2014–15
|0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | |
| 2015–16
|0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | |
| 2016–17
|0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| colspan="2"|Total
!0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 4 | |
| rowspan="1"|Arbroath
|34 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 43 | 2 | |
| rowspan="8"|Cove Rangers
|rowspan="1"|Highland League |30 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 41 | 1 | |
| 2019–20
|rowspan="1"|Scottish League Two |27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 35 | 0 | |
| 2020–21
|rowspan="2"|Scottish League One |22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 0 | |
| 2021–22
|33 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 44 | 2 | |
| 2022–23
|rowspan="1"|Scottish Championship |18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 1 | |
| 2023–24
|rowspan="2"|Scottish League One |23 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 3 | |
| 2024–25
|15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 2 | |
| colspan="2"|Total
!168 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 216 | 9 | |
| colspan="3"|Career total
!202 | 9 | 27 | 4 | 25 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 278 | 14 |
References
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