James Gillespie

With Sunderland in 1894
Personal information
Date of birth	(1868-03-22)22 March 1868[1]
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death	5 August 1932(1932-08-05) (aged 64)[2]
Place of death	Glasgow, Scotland
Position(s)	Outside right
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Star
1888–1891	Clyde
1890–1892	Sunderland Albion
1892–1897	Sunderland	129	(51)
1897–1902	Third Lanark	32	(10)
1902–1903	Ayr	17	(7)
International career
1898	Scottish League XI[3]	1	(1)
1898	Scotland	1	(3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

James Gillespie (22 March 1868 – 5 August 1932) was a Scottish footballer who played for Clyde, Sunderland Albion, Sunderland, Third Lanark, Ayr and Scotland.

Gillespie, an outside right, joined Sunderland Albion from Clyde in 1891, ^[1] moving on to Sunderland in 1892 when Albion folded.^[4] Gillespie won the English league championship twice with Sunderland, in 1893 and 1895, and won the 1895 World Championship.^[4] He scored a total of 57 goals in 146 appearances for the club in all official competitions.^[2]

He returned to Scotland in 1897 with Third Lanark^[5] and it was with the Glasgow club that he won his only international cap aged 30. Despite scoring a hat-trick in Scotland's 5–2 win over Wales on 19 March 1898 (with the others from fellow debutant James McKee), he was never capped again for his country.^[4][6] Away from football he worked as an upholsterer and was based in Bearsden.^[1]

Sunderland

• Football League champions: 1892–93, 1894–95

• List of Scotland national football team hat-tricks