Derek Martin Hamilton (born 26 August 1958) is a Scottish former
football
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Kilwinning
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in 1958. He joined
Aberdeen
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from junior club Beith Juniors in 1978 and spent five years at Aberdeen. He joined St Mirren F.C. in 1983, where he spent six years and was part of the team which won the 1987 Scottish Cup Final. On leaving St Mirren in 1989, he had spells at
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 ...
and Morton. He returned to Junior football with Irvine Meadow, and retired in 1991.
Honours
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Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,1986–87
Personal life
Hamilton has been living in Stewarton, Ayrshire since 2012.