Booth receives a Player of the Month award in March 2016.
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Callum Booth | ||
Date of birth | 30 May 1991 | ||
Place of birth | Stranraer, Scotland | ||
Playing position | Left back | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Partick Thistle | ||
Number | 3 | ||
Youth career | |||
2001–2010 | Hibernian | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010–2015 | Hibernian | 40 | (3) |
2010 | → Arbroath (loan) | 15 | (1) |
2010 | → Brechin City (loan) | 11 | (2) |
2012–2013 | → Livingston (loan) | 31 | (1) |
2013–2014 | → Raith Rovers (loan) | 35 | (3) |
2015 | → Partick Thistle (loan) | 14 | (0) |
2015– | Partick Thistle | 60 | (3) |
National team‡ | |||
2008–2010 | Scotland U19 | 13 | (0) |
2010–2011 | Scotland U21 | 4 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 09:45, 18 September 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 October 2012 |
Callum Booth (born 30 May 1991) is a Scottish footballer who currently plays as a left back for Scottish Premiership club Partick Thistle. Booth, who joined Hibernian aged 10, played for the youth team that won a league and cup double in 2009. After loan spells with Arbroath and Brechin City in 2010, he broke into the Hibernian first team in 2011. He was selected less frequently during 2012 and was loaned to Livingston for the 2012–13 season and then to Raith Rovers the following season. On 14 May 2015, Booth signed a pre-contract agreement to make his move to Partick Thistle permanent on 1 June 2015.
Booth was born in Stranraer, but he moved to Haddington, East Lothian aged three, with his parents and elder brother. He was educated at Haddington Infant School, King's Meadow Primary and Knox Academy.
Booth joined the Hibernian youth setup aged 10 and he played for the Hibs under-19s side that won the League and Cup double in the 2008–09 season. Booth signed professional terms with Hibs after that success, but had to wait to make his first appearance in the first team.
He had loan spells at Scottish Football League clubs Arbroath in 2009–10, where he won the Scottish Football League Young Player of the Month for February 2010 and in 2010–11 at Brechin City.Colin Calderwood gave Booth a long term contract when he returned from the latter club in December 2010.