Hugh Lafferty (16 November 1901 – 24 December 1970) was a Scottish

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

half back who played professionally in Scotland, England and the United States. Lafferty spent time with teams in both Scotland (

St Johnstone St Johnstone Football Club is a professional association football club in Perth, Scotland. The team competes in the , the second division of Scottish football. The club's name is derived from St John's Toun (or Saint Johnstoun)—an old name o ...

) and England (

Fulham Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies in a loop on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea, London, Chelsea ...

), who later progressed to their countries' respective top divisions, before moving to the United States in 1929 to join the New York Nationals of the American Soccer League. In 1930, the Nationals were renamed the Giants and Lafferty played for them through the 1931 season.Hugh Lafferty
SoccerStats.us He was married with three children and retired to

Kilsyth Kilsyth (; ) is a town and civil parishes in Scotland, civil parish in North Lanarkshire, roughly halfway between Glasgow and Stirling in Scotland. The estimated population is 10,380. The town is famous for the Battle of Kilsyth and the religi ...

in Scotland.

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* American Soccer League (1921–1933) players Fulham F.C. players King's Park F.C. players New York Nationals (ASL) players New York Giants (soccer, 1930–1932) players Scottish men's footballers Scottish expatriate men's footballers St Johnstone F.C. players 1901 births 1970 deaths English Football League players Scottish Football League players Men's association football wing halves Scottish expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States 20th-century Scottish sportsmen {{Scotland-footy-midfielder-1900s-stub