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Billy Clifford Gilmour (born 11 June 2001) is a Scottish professional
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who plays as a
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for
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club
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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
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, where he developed in the club's
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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
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and
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finals in 2021. He spent a season on loan at
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where the club were relegated, before he signed with
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on a permanent basis in September 2022. Gilmour signed for Italian side Napoli on a permanent deal on deadline day in August 2024. Gilmour represented Scotland at all youth level from under-15, under-16, under-17, under-19 and under-21 levels before making his
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debut in 2021. He was selected for their Euro 2020 squad later that year, and was subsequently selected for
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. He currently has 40 international caps.


Early life

Gilmour was born on 11 June 2001 at
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in
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and was raised in
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,
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. His father, William Gilmour, served with the
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and played junior football for Ardrossan Winton Rovers. Gilmour attended Stanley Primary School in Ardrossan and Grange Academy in
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, where he was part of the
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(SFA) Performance School programme. He listed
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,
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and
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as his football role models.


Club career


Rangers

Gilmour spent three months at an early age with
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, before moving to
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due to the logistics of attending training. He made his debut for the under-20 development team in December 2016 at the age of 15, and was invited to train with the first-team squad the following month by manager
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. Gilmour was given a squad number and, following Warburton's departure from the club, was twice included in the provisional squad for the
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caretaker manager
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. The next Rangers manager,
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, described Gilmour as a player with a "bright future" and held talks with the player's family in an attempt to persuade him to stay with the club. Rangers, however, announced in May 2017 that they had reached an agreement for Gilmour to join Chelsea for a "significant fee". Reports suggested that Chelsea would pay an initial development fee of around £500,000, with potential further payments dependent on his progress. SFA Performance Director
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had advised Gilmour and his family that he should stay at Rangers, as he would have had more chance of gaining first team experience. Mackay said, "I really hope he goes out on
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quickly to someone and keeps progressing".


Chelsea


Youth

Gilmour became officially contracted to Chelsea in July 2017, following his 16th birthday. He joined the club's under-18 squad, making a goalscoring debut in an Under-18 Premier League match against
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during September 2017, and going on to score in each of his first three appearances. In July 2018, after turning 17, Gilmour signed his first professional contract with Chelsea.


2019–20

Newly-appointed Chelsea manager
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gave Gilmour his senior debut on 10 July 2019, in a pre-season friendly against
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in Dublin. His first appearance in a competitive matchday squad for the first-team came in the
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against
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, when he was an unused substitute. He made his
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debut on 31 August against
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, coming on in the 84th minute for
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. He made his full debut on 25 September, playing the full 90 minutes in a 7–1
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win against
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. Gilmour was added to the Chelsea first-team squad on a permanent basis in February 2020. He was widely praised for his performance in a 2–0 win against Liverpool in an
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tie on 3 March. Gilmour later made his first Premier League start later that week on 8 March against Everton, earning Man of the Match honours in a 4–0 win. He did not play much for the next six months or so, due to the lockdown caused by
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and a knee injury. Gilmour made 11 appearances for the Chelsea first team during the 2019–20 season, and was awarded the club's Academy Player of the Year award.


2020–21

In September 2020, Gilmour took the 23 squad number for 2020–21 season after
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returned to
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on loan. Gilmour returned to the Chelsea starting lineup on 8 December 2020, when he made his first Champions League start in a 1–1 draw with
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. Under
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, Gilmour featured periodically. He was an unused substitute as Chelsea defeated
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1–0 in the
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on 29 May.


2021–22: loan to Norwich City

In July 2021, Gilmour joined fellow Premier League club
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on a season-long loan. Gilmour cited fellow Scotland international Grant Hanley as an influencing factor in his decision to join the club. He played 28 times for Norwich during the 2021–22 season, but the team finished last in the
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and were relegated. In June 2022, Chelsea exercised an option to extend Gilmour's contract to the end of the 2023–24 season.


Brighton & Hove Albion

On 1 September 2022, Gilmour transferred to fellow Premier League club
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on a four-year deal. He made his debut three days later, coming on as a 93rd-minute substitute for Moisés Caicedo in the 5–2 home win over
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. Gilmour made his first Brighton start on 9 November, playing the whole match of the 3–1
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third round victory away at Arsenal, assisting
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's goal. His first Premier League start for Brighton came on his sixth appearance, playing the whole match and picking up a yellow card in the 4–2 home loss against Arsenal on 31 December. After almost three months without an appearance, on 29 April 2023, Gilmour played the whole of the 6–0 home thrashing of
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, Brighton's biggest Premier League victory; he was also selected to start in subsequent wins over
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at home and Arsenal away. Gilmour and Brighton finished the season 6th in Premier League, which qualified them for the
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for the first time in the club's history. On 21 September 2023, Gilmour started in Brighton's first European match in the club's history, against
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.


Napoli

On 30 August 2024, Gilmour joined
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side
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, signing a five-year contract for a reported transfer fee of £12 million plus £4 million in add-ons. His international teammate
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joined Napoli from Manchester United on the same day. By January 2025, he seemed to have lost his place to teammate
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, but returned to the starting lineup in March. Napoli won Serie A on the final day of the season, giving Gilmour and compatriot McTominary the first league titles of their career.


International career

Gilmour played for the Scotland under-16s in the 2016
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tournament. He made his Scotland under-17 debut against
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in August 2017, and scored his first international goal in a 2–1 defeat against
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two days later. Under-21 debut followed when he featured in a 1–0 win against
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at the
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, and won the ''Revelation of the Tournament'' award after helping Scotland to a fourth-placed finish. Gilmour was included in the
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for
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by
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. He made his full international debut on 2 June 2021, coming off the bench in the 81st minute of a pre-tournament friendly against the
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. Gilmour made his first start for Scotland in a goalless draw against
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on 18 June, and was awarded man of the match by UEFA. He then tested positive for
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, meaning that he missed Scotland's final group game against
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. Gilmour remained in the squad for Scotland's continuing 2022 World Cup qualifiers in September, starting all five games against
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,
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,
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,
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and the
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. His performances were widely acclaimed, with him winning man of the match in the 1–0 victory over Moldova at Hampden. On 17 October 2023, Gilmour scored his first career goal in a 4–1 friendly loss to
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in
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. On 7 June 2024, Gilmour was named in Scotland's squad for the
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finals in Germany. A week later, he came on as a 67th-minute substitute for
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in the opening match of the tournament, where Scotland lost 5–1 to hosts
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. He went on to start against both
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and
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as Scotland finished bottom of
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with one point from three matches. Gilmour gained his 40th Scotland cap on 9 June 2025 as Scotland beat Liechtenstein 4–0 in Vaduz.


Personal life

In May 2023,
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model Orla Melissa Sloan pleaded guilty to stalking Gilmour and his former Chelsea teammate
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, as well as harassing
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.


Career statistics


Club


International

:''Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Gilmour goal.''


Honours

Chelsea Youth *
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: 2017–18 *
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: 2017–18 Chelsea *
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:
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*
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runner-up:
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Napoli *
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: 2024–25 Individual *
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Breakthrough of the Tournament:
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*
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Best XI:
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* Chelsea Academy Player of the Season: 2019–20


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at the SSC Napoli website * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gilmour, Billy 2001 births Living people Footballers from Irvine, North Ayrshire Scottish men's footballers Scotland men's youth international footballers Scotland men's under-21 international footballers Scotland men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Rangers F.C. players Chelsea F.C. players Norwich City F.C. players Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players SSC Napoli players Premier League players Serie A players UEFA Champions League–winning players UEFA Euro 2020 players UEFA Euro 2024 players People educated at Grange Academy, Kilmarnock Scottish victims of crime People from Ardrossan Scottish expatriate men's footballers Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Italy 21st-century Scottish sportsmen