Kevin Bremner

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| name = Kevin Bremner

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| fullname = Kevin Johnston Bremner{{Hugman|2160|access-date=19 March 2017}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|10|7|df=y}}

| birth_place = Banff, Scotland

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| height = {{height|ft=5|in=9}}

| position = Striker

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| years1 = 1976–1979 | clubs1 = Deveronvale | caps1 = | goals1 =

| years2 = 1979–1980 | clubs2 = Keith | caps2 = | goals2 =

| years3 = 1980–1983 | clubs3 = Colchester United | caps3 = 95 | goals3 = 31

| years4 = 1982 | clubs4 = → Birmingham City (loan) | caps4 = 4 | goals4 = 1

| years5 = 1982–1983 | clubs5 = → Wrexham (loan) | caps5 = 4 | goals5 = 1

| years6 = 1983 | clubs6 = → Plymouth Argyle (loan) | caps6 = 5 | goals6 = 1

| years7 = 1983–1985 | clubs7 = Millwall | caps7 = 96 | goals7 = 32

| years8 = 1985–1987 | clubs8 = Reading | caps8 = 64 | goals8 = 21

| years9 = 1987–1990 | clubs9 = Brighton & Hove Albion | caps9 = 128 | goals9 = 35

| years10 = 1990–1991 | clubs10 = Peterborough United | caps10 = 17 | goals10 = 3

| years11 = 1991–1992 | clubs11 = Dundee | caps11 = 24 | goals11 = 6

| years12 = 1992 | clubs12 = → Shrewsbury Town (loan) | caps12 = 7 | goals12 = 2

| years13 = 1992–1994 | clubs13 = Brora Rangers | caps13 = | goals13 =

| years14 = 1994–1995 | clubs14 = Deveronvale | caps14 = | goals14 =

| years15 = 1995 | clubs15 = Gillingham | caps15 = 0 | goals15 = 0

| manageryears1 = 1992–1994 | managerclubs1 = Brora Rangers (player-manager)

| manageryears2 = 1994–1995 | managerclubs2 = Deveronvale (player-manager)

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Kevin Johnston Bremner (born 7 October 1957) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker. He made nearly 450 appearances in the English and Scottish Football Leagues, representing ten different clubs.{{cite web |url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player/kevinbremner.html |title=Kevin Bremner |work=Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database |publisher=Neil Brown |access-date=20 July 2010}}

Football career

Bremner was born in Banff, which is now in Aberdeenshire. He began his senior career as an 18-year-old with home-town club Deveronvale of the Highland League; he had been with the club since he was 14 years of age. In the 1977–78 season, he was part of the team which defeated Huntly to win the Bell's Cup; he finished the season as leading scorer with 27 goals and won the club's player of the year award.{{cite web |url=http://www.deveronvale.co.uk/history.html |title=Honours |publisher=Deveronvale F.C. |access-date=29 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160222222625/https://www.deveronvale.co.uk/history.html |archive-date=22 February 2016}} Celtic manager Billy McNeill had invited him for a two-week trial, but no contract offer ensued and Bremner left Deveronvale for fellow Highland League club Keith.{{cite web |url=http://www.deveronvale.co.uk/legends.asp |title=Millennium Legends |publisher=Deveronvale F.C. |access-date=29 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160222225919/https://www.deveronvale.co.uk/legends.asp |archive-date=22 February 2016}}

In October 1980 he moved to England to join Colchester United of the Third Division for a fee of £40,000;{{cite web |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=9130 |title=Kevin Bremner |publisher=Soccerbase |access-date=3 March 2008}} that season Colchester were relegated to the Fourth Division.{{cite web |url=https://www.fchd.info/COLCHESU.HTM |title=Colchester United |website=Football Club History Database |publisher=Richard Rundle |access-date=20 July 2010}} Bremner played more than 100 matches for the club in all competitions, and during the 1982–83 season he spent short periods on loan at Birmingham City, Wrexham and Plymouth Argyle, scoring a goal for each. In February 1983 he joined Millwall for £25,000. His first goal for the club gave him the distinction of having played and scored in the Football League for five different clubs in the same season.{{cite web |url=http://www.millwall-history.co.uk/KevinBremner.htm |title=Kevin Bremner |work=The Millwall History Files |access-date=3 March 2008}}{{cite book |last=Matthews |first=Tony |title=Birmingham City: A Complete Record |date=1995 |publisher=Breedon Books |location=Derby |pages=74–75 |isbn=978-1-85983-010-9}}

Bremner played more than 100 games in all competitions for Millwall, helping them gain promotion to the Second Division as Third Division runners-up. At the beginning of the 1985–86 season he joined Reading; as the clubs were unable to agree on a transfer fee, the Football League tribunal valued his services at £35,000. In his second season at the club, he contributed to Reading winning the Third Division title,{{cite web |url=https://www.fchd.info/READING.HTM |title=Reading |website=Football Club History Database |publisher=Richard Rundle |access-date=20 July 2010}} before joining Brighton & Hove Albion, where for the third time in four seasons he played his part in his club gaining promotion from the Third Division.{{cite web |url=https://www.fchd.info/BRIGHTHA.HTM |title=Brighton & Hove Albion |website=Football Club History Database |publisher=Richard Rundle |access-date=20 July 2010}} He finished the season as the club's leading scorer, with 12 goals in all competitions.{{cite book |first1=Tim |last1=Carder |first2=Roger |last2=Harris |title=Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. |date=1997 |publisher=Goldstone Books |location=Hove |page=338 |isbn=0-9521337-1-7}}

He spent a season at Peterborough United before returning to Scotland where he signed for Dundee, contributing to their First Division title in 1991–92.{{cite web |url=https://dundeefc.co.uk/club/history/honours/ |title=Honours |publisher=Dundee F.C. |access-date=2 December 2019}} A short spell on loan at Shrewsbury Town preceded his first foray into management, as player-manager of Highland League club Brora Rangers. He then rejoined Deveronvale as player-manager for one season, in which he was leading goalscorer with 17 goals and managed them to victory in the Aberdeenshire Shield.

Bremner returned to England to take up a coaching role at Gillingham, where he became youth team manager, but was made redundant in April 2003 along with other staff as a cost-cutting measure.{{cite news |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/nationwide-newsround-3165007 |title=Nationwide newsround |newspaper=Coventry Telegraph |date=5 April 2003 |access-date=2 December 2019}} He made one playing appearance for the club in 1995 in a Football League Trophy match.{{cite book |first=Tony |last=Brown |title=The Definitive Gillingham F.C.: A Complete Record |publisher=Soccerdata |date=2003 |isbn=1-899468-20-X |page=105}}

His older brother Des was also a prominent professional footballer, with Hibernian, Aston Villa and Birmingham City.