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Jimmy Sharp

Jimmy Sharp
Personal information
Date of birth (1880-10-11)11 October 1880
Place of birth Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland
Date of death 18 November 1949(1949-11-18) (aged 69)
Playing position Left back
Youth career
East Craigie
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1899–1904 Dundee
1904–1905 Fulham
1905–1908 Woolwich Arsenal 103 (4)
1908–1909 Rangers
1909–1912 Fulham
1912–1915 Chelsea
1915–1916 Dundee Hibernian
1920 Fulham 1 (1)
National team
1902–1903 Scottish League XI 2 (0)
1904–1909 Scotland 5 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Jimmy Sharp (11 October 1880 – 18 November 1949) was a Scottish international football player.

Born in Alyth, Perthshire, Sharp began his career with East Craigie and then joined Dundee in 1899. There he was a regular at left back in his five seasons there, where he earned a Scottish First Division runners-up medal in 1902-03 and made his debut for Scotland against Wales on 12 March 1904. In 1904 he moved south of the border to Fulham, who were then in the Southern League.

A year later, in 1905 he was snapped up by Woolwich Arsenal of the First Division and promptly became a regular in the side after making his debut against Liverpool on 2 September 1905. He missed only three league games in his first season and reached the FA Cup semi-finals twice in his first two seasons. At Arsenal Sharp also won another three Scotland caps, before Rangers prised him away in April 1908 for £400. In total he played 116 games for Arsenal, scoring 5 goals.

His spell at Rangers only lasted nine months before he moved back to London again, rejoining Fulham for a transfer fee of £1,000. He spent another four seasons at Craven Cottage, winning a final Scotland cap, against Wales on 1 March 1909, to bring his total to five. Sharp then joined Fulham's local rivals Chelsea, before leaving upon the cancellation of league football in 1915 due to World War I.


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