Callum Booth

Callum Booth (born 30 May 1991) is a Scottish footballer, who plays as a left back for St Johnstone. Booth, who joined Hibernian aged 10, played for the youth team that won a league and cup double in 2009. After loan spells with Arbroath and Brechin City in 2010, he broke into the Hibernian first team in 2011. He was selected less frequently during 2012 and was loaned to Livingston for the 2012–13 season and then to Raith Rovers the following season. Booth moved to Partick Thistle in January 2015, initially on loan. After three years at Firhill he signed for Dundee United in May 2018, leaving the club in August 2019.

Callum Booth

Booth receives a Partick Thistle Player of the Month award in March 2016.
Personal information
Full name	Callum Booth
Date of birth	(1991-05-30) 30 May 1991
Place of birth	Stranraer, Scotland
Playing position(s)	Left back
Club information
Current team	St Johnstone
Number	24
Youth career
2001–2010	Hibernian
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2010–2015	Hibernian	40	(3)
2010	→ Arbroath (loan)	15	(1)
2010	→ Brechin City (loan)	11	(2)
2012–2013	→ Livingston (loan)	31	(1)
2013–2014	→ Raith Rovers (loan)	35	(3)
2015	→ Partick Thistle (loan)	14	(0)
2015–2018	Partick Thistle	77	(3)
2018–2019	Dundee United	21	(2)
2019–	St Johnstone	16	(0)
National team^‡
2008–2010	Scotland U19[1]	13	(0)
2010–2011	Scotland U21[2]	4	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:36, 15 August 2020 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 October 2012

Early life

Booth was born in Stranraer, but he moved to Haddington, East Lothian aged three, with his parents and elder brother Tom.[3] He was educated at Haddington Infant School, King's Meadow Primary and Knox Academy.[3]

Career

Hibernian

Booth playing for Hibernian

Booth joined the Hibernian youth setup aged 10[3] and he played for the Hibs under-19s side that won the League and Cup double in the 2008–09 season.[4] Booth signed professional terms with Hibs after that success, but had to wait to make his first appearance in the first team.

He had loan spells at Scottish Football League clubs Arbroath in 2009–10,[5] where he won the Scottish Football League Young Player of the Month for February 2010[6] and in 2010–11 at Brechin City.[7] Colin Calderwood gave Booth a long term contract when he returned from the latter club in December 2010.[4]

Booth made his debut for Hibernian on 18 January 2011, in a 1–0 Scottish Cup defeat at Ayr United.[8] He scored his first goal for the club in a 2–0 win against Inverness CT on 26 February at Easter Road.[9] Following his good run of form since his debut, he was named as SPL Young Player of the Month for February 2011.[10] Booth was dropped from the team early in the 2011–12 season, after he made a few defensive errors.[11]

Booth signed on loan for Livingston in August 2012.[12] In total he made 31 First Division appearances for the West Lothian club.[13]

Booth moved on loan to Raith Rovers, for the full duration of the 2013–14 season, in June 2013.[14][15] On 6 April 2014, he played the full match as Raith Rovers beat Rangers 1–0 after extra time at Easter Road to win the Scottish Challenge Cup.[16]

Partick Thistle

On 28 January 2015, Booth joined Partick Thistle for the remainder of the season on loan.[17] On 14 May 2015, it was announced that Booth had signed a one-year contract with Thistle.[18] His contract was extended by another year in February 2016, when he made his 25th league appearance of the 2015/16 season.[19] Booth scored his first goal for Partick Thistle in a 3–1 away defeat to Motherwell.[20] He scored his second goal for Thistle only a few days later in a 2–1 victory away to St. Johnstone.

Booth signed a new two-year contract with Thistle, with the option of a further year, on 7 April 2016.[21] He scored his first goal of the 2016–17 season in a 2–0 home win against Dundee on 28 December 2016, with a curling free kick.[22] Thistle were relegated via the playoffs at the end of the 2017–18 season. Following that relegation, Booth was one of many players released by the club.[23]

Dundee United

Booth signed a two-year contract with Scottish Championship club Dundee United on 30 May 2018.[24] He left the club on 24 July 2019.[25]

St Johnstone

After leaving Dundee United, Booth agreed a two-year contract with Bury that was due to be completed upon the lifting of a transfer embargo.[26] The embargo was never lifted and Bury were subsequently expelled from the English Football League, which meant that the transfer never took place.[26][27]

On 16 September 2019, Booth signed for St Johnstone on a contract until January 2020.[28] In December 2019 his contract was extended until the end of the season.[29] Booth was one of three St Johnstone players to sign a short term six-month contract extension in May 2020, as the club formulated plans amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.[30]

Career statistics

As of 15 August 2020 [31][32]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			Scottish Cup		League Cup		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Hibernian	2010–11[33]	Scottish Premier League	17	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	18	1
	2011–12[34]		12	1	1	0	2	0	—		15	1
	2012–13[35]		0	0	0	0	1	0	—		1	0
	2013–14[36]	Scottish Premiership	0	0	0	0	0	0	—		0	0
	2014–15[37]	Scottish Championship	11	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	12	1
	Total		40	3	2	0	4	0	0	0	46	3
Arbroath (loan)	2009–10[38]	Scottish Second Division	15	1	0	0	0	0	4[lower-alpha 1]	0	19	1
Brechin City (loan)	2010–11[33]	Scottish Second Division	11	2	0	0	3	0	1[lower-alpha 2]	0	15	2
Livingston (loan)	2012–13[35]	Scottish First Division	31	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	32	1
Raith Rovers (loan)	2013–14[36]	Scottish Championship	35	3	4	0	2	0	5[lower-alpha 2]	0	46	3
Partick Thistle (loan)	2014–15[37]	Scottish Premiership	14	0	0	0	0	0	—		14	0
Partick Thistle	2015–16[39]	Scottish Premiership	34	2	2	0	1	0	—		37	2
	2016–17[40]		31	1	2	0	5	0	—		38	1
	2017–18[41]		12	0	2	0	4	0	2[lower-alpha 3]	0	20	0
	Total		77	3	6	0	10	0	2	0	95	3
Dundee United	2018–19[42]	Scottish Championship	26	1	1	1	1	0	5[lower-alpha 4]	0	33	2
	2019–20[43]		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total		26	1	1	1	1	0	5	0	33	2
St Johnstone	2019–20[43]	Scottish Premiership	13	0	2	1	0	0	—		15	1
	2020–21[44]		3	0	0	0	0	0	—		3	0
	Total		16	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	18	1
Career total			265	14	16	2	20	0	17	0	318	16

1. Appearances in the Second Division play-offs
2. Appearances in the Scottish Challenge Cup
3. Appearances in the Scottish Premiership play-offs
4. One appearance in the Scottish Challenge Cup and four appearances in the Scottish Premiership play-offs

References

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2. "Callum Booth – U21 Squad". Scottish Football Association. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
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4. Hardie, David (29 December 2010). "Hibs boss Calderwood hands Callum Booth new long-term contract". Edinburgh Evening News. Johnston Press. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
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