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Nicholas Devlin (born 17 October 1993) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a right-sided full-back for and captains Scottish Premiership side Livingston.

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Nicky Devlin

Personal information
Full name	Nicholas Devlin
Date of birth	(1993-10-17) 17 October 1993 (age 28)
Place of birth	Bishopbriggs, Scotland
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Right-back
Club information
Current team	Livingston
Number	2
Youth career
	West Park United
	Hamilton Academical
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2009–2011	Dumbarton	23	(0)
2011–2013	Motherwell	0	(0)
2012	→ Stenhousemuir (loan)	6	(0)
2012–2013	→ Dumbarton (loan)	16	(0)
2013	→ Stenhousemuir (loan)	8	(0)
2013–2014	Stenhousemuir	30	(0)
2014–2017	Ayr United	104	(3)
2017–2019	Walsall	76	(2)
2019–	Livingston	49	(2)
National team
2011	Scotland U19	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:19, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Career

Devlin signed for Dumbarton in the summer of 2009, and broke into the first team during the 2010–11 season. Devlin signed a pre-contract agreement with SPL side Motherwell in March 2011. As part of the deal, Jordan Halsman's loan deal at Dumbarton was extended until the end of the season,[1] and Motherwell played a pre-season friendly against Dumbarton, which Motherwell won 5–0. Devlin officially joined on 1 July 2011.

Devlin was injured for most of the 2011–12 season, but came back at the start of 2012 and turned in some excellent performances for the Motherwell under-19 team. On 29 March 2012, Devlin joined Stenhousemuir on loan until the end of the season where he was awarded the Young Player of the Month award for April, his first full month at the club.[2]

On 17 August 2012, Devlin re-joined Dumbarton on loan until January 2013,[3] which was subsequently extended for a further twenty-eight days.[4] On 15 March 2013, Devlin was again farmed out on loan, re-joining Stenhousemuir till the end of the season.[5] On 20 May 2013, after not making a single first-team appearance for Motherwell, Devlin was released by the club.[6]

Upon being released by Motherwell, he was quickly signed on a permanent contract by Stenhousemuir, who he had two previous loan spells with, for the 2013–14 season.[7] At the end of the season, he was one of a number of players released by the club.[8]

In July 2014, Devlin signed for Ayr United.[9] He was made club captain on 19 May 2015.[10] However, after the club's relegation from the Scottish Championship, Devlin announced he would be leaving Ayr in May 2017 at the end of his contract.[11][12]

Devlin signed for League One club Walsall in June 2017 on a two-year contract.[13] He was offered a new contract by Walsall at the end of the 2018–19 season, however he opted to move back to Scotland.[14]

In June 2019, Devlin signed for Scottish Premiership side Livingston.[15]

Coaching career

In June 2020, Devlin agreed to join the under-20 coaching staff of West of Scotland Football League side Rossvale.[16] He has also been brought in by David Gormley to assist in first team training sessions.

Career statistics

As of match played 14 August 2021

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National Cup		League Cup		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Dumbarton	2010–11[17][18]	Scottish Second Division	23	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	24	0
Motherwell	2011–12[19]	Scottish Premier League	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2012–13[20]		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stenhousemuir (loan)	2011–12[19]	Scottish Second Division	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
Dumbarton (loan)	2012–13[20][18]	Scottish First Division	16	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	18	0
Stenhousemuir (loan)	2012–13[20]	Scottish Second Division	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0
Stenhousemuir	2013–14[21][18]	Scottish League One	30	0	4	0	1	0	3[lower-alpha 1]	0	38	0
Ayr United	2014–15[22]	Scottish League One	36	2	2	0	2	0	1[lower-alpha 1]	0	41	2
	2015–16[23]		34	1	0	0	2	0	6[lower-alpha 2]	2	42	3
	2016–17[24]	Scottish Championship	34	0	6	0	5	0	3[lower-alpha 1]	0	48	0
	Total		104	3	8	0	9	0	10	2	131	5
Walsall	2017–18[25]	League One	33	0	0	0	1	0	2[lower-alpha 3]	0	36	0
	2018–19[26]		43	2	4	1	0	0	2[lower-alpha 3]	0	49	3
	Total		76	2	4	1	1	0	4	0	85	3
Livingston	2019–20[27]	Scottish Premiership	11	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	16	0
	2020–21[28]		36	2	2	0	8	0	0	0	46	2
	2021–22[29]		2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	0
	Total		49	2	2	0	14	0	0	0	65	2
Career total			312	7	21	1	26	0	17	2	376	10

References

External links

• Nicky Devlin at Soccerbase
• Nicky Devlin at Soccerway

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