John "Dixie" Deans
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Kelly Deans | ||
| Date of birth | 30 July 1946 | ||
| Place of birth | Johnstone, Scotland | ||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Neilston Juniors | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1965 | Albion Rovers (trialist) | 1 | (0) |
| 1965–1971 | Motherwell | 152 | (78) |
| 1971–1976 | Celtic | 126 | (89) |
| 1976–1977 | Luton Town | 14 | (6) |
| 1977 | → Carlisle United (loan) | 4 | (2) |
| 1977 | → Partick Thistle (loan) | 6 | (2) |
| Total | 303 | (177) | |
| National team | |||
| 1974 | Scotland | 2 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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John Kelly "Dixie" Deans (born 30 July 1946) was a Scottish footballer. He played as a centre forward for Celtic in the 1970s, under the management of Jock Stein, and was a prolific goal-scorer. He was nicknamed "Dixie" in honour of the great English & Everton centre-forward Dixie Dean.
Deans joined Motherwell from Neilston Juniors in 1965 and spent six seasons with the Fir Park side. He signed for Celtic in a £17,500 deal in 1971 but was unable to play for Celtic immediately as he was, at the time, serving a six-match ban. (During this period he spent his free time working in the Paisley office of the Evening Times.) He played for the Hoops until 1976. During this time he scored 132 goals in just 184 games for the club and set several scoring records. The six goals he struck in a defeat of Partick Thistle is a post-war record for goals scored in a single game, especially notable as Thistle's goalkeeper on the occasion was the Scotland custodian Alan Rough. He is also the only player in Scottish football history to twice score a hat trick in a major cup final, achieving the feat in the 1971–72 Scottish Cup final and the 1974–75 League Cup final, both against Hibernian.
He is also remembered for the part he played in the semi final of the 1971–72 European Cup, where Celtic were paired with Internazionale, whom they had beaten in Lisbon five years earlier. The two legs and extra-time failed to yield a single goal and so the tie proceeded to penalties. Dixie, who had come on as a substitute, took the first for Celtic, firing it high over the bar. Inter then scored all five of their penalties and moved on to the final against AFC Ajax. That was the first time ever the penalty shootout was used to determine a winner in UEFA European club competitions, so Deans holds the distinction of being the first player to miss in a shootout.
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