This article is about the footballer. For the literary critic, see Willy Maley.
Willie Maley
Portrait of Maley as a player in 1892
Personal information
Full name
William Patrick Maley
Date of birth
(1868-04-25)25 April 1868
Place of birth
Newry, County Down, Ireland
Date of death
2 April 1958(1958-04-02) (aged 89)
Place of death
Glasgow, Scotland[1]
Position(s)
Half-back
Youth career
1886
Cathcart Hazelbank Juniors
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps
(Gls)
1887
Third Lanark
0
(0)
1888–1897
Celtic
70
(2)
1896
Manchester City
1
(0)
Total
71
(2)
International career
1893
Scotland
2
(0)
1892–1894
Scottish League XI
2
(0)
Managerial career
1897–1940
Celtic
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
William Patrick Maley (25 April 1868 – 2 April 1958) was an Irish-born Scottish international football player and manager. He was the first manager of Celtic Football Club, and one of the most successful managers in Scottish football history. During his managerial tenure, Maley led Celtic to thirty major trophies (16 league championships and 14 Scottish Cups) in forty-three consecutive years as manager. He is attributed to have coined the famous Celtic motto 'It is not his creed nor his nationality which counts; it's the man himself.'[citation needed]
^Friends of Cathcart presents Footballers of Cathcart: one of Glasgow's Footballing Graveyards, Football Makes Glasgow via YouTube, 11 January 2022
settling in Cathcart – at that time a village just south of Glasgow. WillieMaley left school at the age of 13 and worked for a few years in the printworks...
Maley's brothers also found fame in the footballing world. Alex Maley was a manager with Clyde, Clydebank, Hibernian and Crystal Palace while Willie Maley...
which time he established Villa as the most successful club in England. WillieMaley was manager of Celtic from 1897 to 1940. John Nicholson was secretary-manager...
later appeared for their national team. Henry Renny-Tailyour Paul Wilson WillieMaley The Isle of Man does not have an internationally recognised national...
a pilgrimage to the shrine at Lourdes, as a guest of Celtic manager WillieMaley. What McGrory didn't know was that Celtic had arranged a meeting with...
Marshall (Celtic) Those who were teammates in the fixture include: WillieMaley and Tom Maley (Celtic) John McPherson and David McPherson (Rangers) Andrew McCreadie...
Hampden Park, 24 April 1937 (1936–37) Most cup final wins by manager: 14, WillieMaley (Celtic) Most cup final wins by player 8, Bobby Lennox (Celtic) Most...
Alex Maley (26 May 1874 – 20 September 1949) was a Scottish football manager and journalist. He was the younger brother of Tom Maley and WillieMaley. Alex...
in the side for the next two decades. Nicknamed "Napoleon" by manager WillieMaley due to his strategic and leadership qualities and calmness, as well as...
three seasons at Shawfield he worked alongside Alex Maley, brother of the Celtic manager WillieMaley. Struth moved to Rangers in 1914 to take up the position...
one of these, WillieMaley had spent 50 years at the club and Stein was only the fourth person to be appointed Celtic manager, after Maley, Jimmy McStay...
Celtic. He had set up a meeting with Celtic manager WillieMaley and young McGrory in summer 1928 when Maley and McGrory were on their way to a pilgrimage in...
several members of the Australian cricket team. Also in attendance was WillieMaley, brother of Manchester City's manager Tom and manager of Celtic whose...
of the Gaelic Athletic Association Pat Jennings, football goalkeeper WillieMaley (1868–1958), football manager Danny McAlinden, heavyweight boxer Ryan...
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