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Billy Gilmour
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Scottish association football player
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Billy Gilmour, born Billy Clifford Gilmour on 11 June 2001 in Irvine, is a footballer who plays as a midfielder, also listed in a defensive midfield role. He holds citizenship of the United Kingdom, represents Scotland for sport, and speaks English.
His career began in 2019. He has played for Chelsea F.C., the Scotland national under-21 football team, and SSC Napoli, and took part in the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 4.
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease
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- Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in
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- The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues
· 2020 · cited 5,327x
- Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,082x
- Real-space refinement in
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· 2018 · cited 3,723x
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Key facts
- 2021
- Scotland
- 2024
- Napoli
- Full name
- Billy Clifford Gilmour
- Date of birth
- ( 2001-06-11 ) 11 June 2001 (age 24)
- Place of birth
- Irvine , Ayrshire , Scotland
- Height
- 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
- Position
- Defensive midfielder
- Current team
- Napoli
- 2008 2009
- Celtic
- 2009 2017
- Rangers
- 2017 2019
- Chelsea
- Years
- Team
- 2019 2022
- Chelsea
- 2021 2022
- → Norwich City (loan)
- 2022 2024
- Brighton & Hove Albion
- 2015 2016
- Scotland U15
- 2016 2017
- Scotland U16
- 2017 2018
- Scotland U17
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Napoli
- Position
- Defensive Midfield
- Nationality
- Scotland
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Irvine
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- SSC Napoli
- Position played
- midfielder
- Country for sport
- Scotland
- Image
- Billy Gilmour 2021-08-07 1 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 170
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 2001-06-11
- start of work period
- 2019-00-00
- social media followers
- 450236
- birth name
- Billy Clifford Gilmour
- name in native language
- Billy Gilmour
- Commons category
- Billy Gilmour (footballer)
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Encyclopedic overview
Billy Clifford Gilmour (born 11 June 2001) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie A club Napoli and the Scotland national team. He is considered one of Scotland's best players, particularly in relation to his passing skills and his style of midfield play.
Gilmour spent three months with Celtic at an early age before moving to Rangers, where he developed in the club's academy and trained with the first-team squad at the age of 15. He joined Chelsea in 2017 after turning down a professional contract with Rangers, made 22 appearances, and was on the bench for their UEFA Champions League and FA Cup finals in 2021. He spent a season on loan at Norwich City where the club were relegated, before he signed with Brighton & Hove Albion on a permanent basis in September 2022. Gilmour signed for Italian side Napoli on a permanent deal on deadline day in August 2024, winning the Scudetto in his first season.
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