Daniel Higgins (born 8 April 1998) is a Scottish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays for club Cumnock Juniors. Higgins has previously played for

Dundee Dundee (; ; or , ) is the List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, fourth-largest city in Scotland. The mid-year population estimate for the locality was . It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firt ...

Kilmarnock Kilmarnock ( ; ; , ), meaning "the church of Mernóc", is a town and former burgh in East Ayrshire situated in southwest Scotland. The town has served as the administrative centre of East Ayrshire Council since 1996 and is the region's main ...

Airdrieonians Airdrieonians Football Club is a Scottish professional football team in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, who are members of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) and play in the . They were formed in 2002 as Airdrie United Football Club ...

Stranraer Stranraer ( , in Scotland also ; ), also known as The Toon or The Cleyhole, is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on Loch Ryan and the northern side of the isthmus joining the Rhins of Galloway to the mainland. Stranraer is Dumfries ...

, Cove Rangers, East Fife ,

Stenhousemuir Stenhousemuir (; ) is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies within the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The town is north-northwest of Falkirk and directly adjoins to Larbert in the west, where the nearest rail access is located ...

and Broomhill.

Playing career

Higgins made his professional debut for

on 8 April 2017, in a 1–0 defeat away to Heart of Midlothian Higgins signed for Kilmarnock on 23 June 2017. He was loaned to

League One League One or League 1 may refer to: Association football * EFL League One, the third tier of football in England. * China League One, the second tier of football in China * K League 1, the top-tier football in South Korea * Lao League 1 * Lea ...

club

on 31 January 2018. In September 2018, he joined

on loan. On 16 July 2019, Higgins signed for newly promoted

Scottish League Two The Scottish League Two, known as William Hill (bookmaker), William Hill League Two for sponsorship reasons, is the fourth tier of the Scottish Professional Football League, the league competition for men's professional association football, foo ...

club Cove Rangers. Higgins moved to East Fife in August 2021 for the season then when the club got relegated to league 2 he left the club for

. After a year with the larbert outfits he left the club for newly reformed Broomhill in June 2023.

Career statistics

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Higgins, Daniel 1998 births Footballers from Glasgow Living people 21st-century Scottish sportsmen Men's association football midfielders Scottish men's footballers Celtic F.C. players Dundee F.C. players Kilmarnock F.C. players Airdrieonians F.C. players Stranraer F.C. players Cove Rangers F.C. players East Fife F.C. players Stenhousemuir F.C. players Broomhill F.C. (Scotland) players Cumnock Juniors F.C. players Scottish Professional Football League players Lowland Football League players