Hughie Ferguson
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Hugh Ferguson | ||
| Date of birth | 2 March 1895 | ||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 8 January 1930 (aged 34) | ||
| Place of death | Dundee, Scotland | ||
| Playing position | Centre forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1914–1916 | Parkhead Juniors | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1916–1925 | Motherwell | 288 | (284) |
| 1925–1929 | Cardiff City | 117 | (77) |
| 1929–1930 | Dundee | 17 | (2) |
| Total | 422 | (363) | |
| National team | |||
| 1920–1922 | Scottish League XI | 3 | (3) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Hugh "Hughie" Ferguson (2 March 1895 – 8 January 1930) was a Scottish footballer. One of only seven men in the entire history of the Football and Scottish Football Leagues to have scored 350 League goals, he began his career at Motherwell and established himself as a consistent scorer, finishing as the top goalscorer in the Scottish Football League on three occasions between 1918 and 1921. His 284 league goals remains a record at the club.
In 1925, he moved to Football League First Division side Cardiff City and continued his scoring exploits, including scoring the winning goals in the 1927 FA Cup Final, in a 1–0 victory over Arsenal, and the 1927 FA Charity Shield, in a 2–1 victory over amateur side Corinthians, making Cardiff the only non-English team to have ever won the FA Cup or the FA Charity Shield. Despite his prolific scoring record, finishing his career with a goal average of 0.855 per game, he was never capped for Scotland. He finished his career with a short spell with Dundee which ended when he committed suicide on 8 January 1930 at the age of 34.
Renowned for his modesty and sense of fair play, Ferguson started his career with Parkhead Juniors in 1914. He appeared for the side in their victorious 1914–15 Scottish Junior Cup final.
Ferguson joined John Hunter's Motherwell for the start of the 1916–17 season, scoring both goals in the 2–2 draw with Raith Rovers on 19 August 1916. He soon established himself as a prolific goalscorer at Fir Park, becoming the top Scottish Football League goalscorer on three occasions (1917–18; 1919–20; 1920–21), scoring 111 goals in total. His 43 goals in 1921 is the second highest season total of League goals in England or Scotland before the change to the offside law in 1925. His scoring exploits attracted interest from several English clubs and, in June 1922, Manchester City submitted an offer of £3,500 which was rejected by Motherwell who valued Ferguson at £4,000. City would later return with an improved bid of £3,900 which was accepted by the Motherwell board but the transfer collapsed when Ferguson turned down the move.
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