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Billy McKay

Name: William Robert McKay
Born: 22 October 1988, Corby (England)
Height: 5.09 ft / 1.75 m
Weight:
Position: Forward

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: Full (2013-date), 7 Under-21 Caps (2008-2010), Under-20, Under-18.
Honours: (with Inverness) Scottish League Cup Runner-Up 2013/14; (with Ross County) SPFL Challenge Cup Winner 2018/19; SPFL Championship 2018/19
Awards: SPL Player of the Month November 2012; SPFL Premiership Player of the Month September 2013, February 2020; SPFL Championship Player of the Month October 2018.

Club Career:
Teams ...... -Seasons- Signed -Fee- --League-- -FACup- FL Cup -Other-
Leicester C. 07/8-08/9 ..2005 Youth ..0 (0)/ 0
Hinckley Utd 07/8 .... Jan-08 .Loan (Conference North)
Northampton. 09/0-10/1 Jul-09 .Free .53(21)/13 .2(1)/1 5(0)/2 .0(2)/0
Inverness CT 11/2-14/5 Jul-11 .Free 110(11)/54 11(0)/6 9(0)/2
Wigan Ath. . 14/5-16/7 Jan-15 £150k ..1 (8)/ 0 ....... 0(1)/0
Dundee Utd 15/6 .... Aug-15 .Loan .28 (1)/12 .4(0)/1 2(0)/0
Oldham Ath.. 16/7 .... Jul-16 .Loan .20 (6)/ 0 .1(1)/2 ....... 4(1)/2
Inverness CT 16/7 .... Jan-17 .Loan .14 (0)/ 4 .1(0)/0
Ross Co. ... 17/8-20/1 Jul-17 Undis .72(30)/32 .4(2)/1 11(4)/6 2(1)/2
Ross Co. U20 17/8 .... Aug-17 ................................ 2(0)/1
Inverness CT 21/2-date Jul-21 .Free

Seasonal Record:
Season
Club
TOTAL
League
FA Cup
League Cup
Other
Div
St
Sb
Gl
St
Sb
Gl
St
Sb
Gl
St
Sb
Gl
St
Sb
Gl
09/10
10/11
11/12
12/13
13/14
14/15
14/15
15/16
15/16
16/17
16/17
17/18
17/18
18/19
19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
Northampton
Northampton
Inverness
Inverness
Inverness
Inverness
Wigan Ath.
Wigan Ath.
Dundee Utd
Oldham Ath.
Inverness
Ross Co.
Ross Co U20
Ross Co.
Ross Co.
Ross Co.
Inverness
Inverness
Inverness
30
30
19
40
46
25
1
0
34
21
15
15
2
29
26
19
27
41
-
(13)
(11)
(5)
(5)
(0)
(1)
(8)
(2)
(1)
(7)
(0)
(9)
(0)
(5)
(7)
(16)
(7)
(5)
-
8
8
3
27
22
10
0
0
13
2
4
3
1
20
11
7
10
19
-
29
24
17
33
38
22
1
0
28
20
14
14
-
22
22
14
25
32
-
(11)
(10)
(5)
(5)
(0)
(1)
(8)
(1)
(1)
(6)
(0)
(9)
-
(2)
(5)
(14)
(7)
(2)
-
8
5
3
23
18
10
0
0
12
0
4
3
-
17
7
5
9
13
-
0
2
2
3
4
2
-
-
4
1
1
1
-
2
0
1
2
6
-
(1)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
-
-
(0)
(1)
(0)
(0)
-
(1)
(1)
(0)
(0)
(0)
-
0
1
0
3
3
0
-
-
1
2
0
0
-
0
0
1
1
5
-
1
4
-
4
4
1
-
0
2
-
-
-
-
3
4
4
-
3
-
(0)
(0)
-
(0)
(0)
(0)
-
(1)
(0)
-
-
-
-
(1)
(1)
(2)
-
(2)
-
0
2
-
1
1
0
-
0
0
-
-
-
-
1
4
1
-
1
-
0
0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
2
-
-
8
0
-
(1)
(1)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(0)
(1)
-
-
(1)
(1)
-
0
0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
-
-
5
0
-
FL2
FL2
SPL
SPL
SPFLP
SPFLP
FLC
FL1
SPFLP
EFL
SPFLP
SPFLP
SCC
SPFLC
SPFLP
SPFLP
SPFLC
SPFLC
SPFLC
TOTAL
428
(103)
173
355
(87)
137
31
(4)
17
30
(7)
11
12
(5)
8
-
SCC - SPFL Challenge Cup

Biography:
Young striker who came through the ranks at Leicester, impressing for their academy and reserve teams. Promoted to the Foxes' firstteam squad in April 2008 he never made a senior appearance and was released at the end of the 2008/09 season. He joined Northampton that summer after a successful trial and made his league debut on the opening day of the season, starting in a 0-0 home draw against Macclesfield. He scored his first goal in a 3-0 win after coming on as a substitute at Accrington Stanley on 18th August and became a regular starter and goalscorer from Christmas onwards. On 22nd September 2010 he scored against Liverpool at Anfield as Northampton won a Carling Cup tie on penalties. On his release by Northampton in the summer of 2011 he joined SPL side, Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

Capped seven times at Under-21 level, he made his debut during a mini tournament in Ukraine in August 2008.

A rich vein of form early in the 2012/13 season saw McKay called up to the senior squad for the first time against Azerbaijan in November 2012, though he remained an unused sub. His goals for Inverness, including a winner against Celtic, earned him the SPL Player of the Month award for November. He earned his first cap as a substitute in a low-key friendly draw with Malta in February 2013. By mid-March he had become the first Northern Ireland player to score twenty goals in an SPL season.

McKay continued his good form into the 2013/14 season, claiming the September SPFL Player of the Month award. That season he aided Caley to their first major final, only to suffer the disappointment of seeing his penalty saved in a shoot-out defeat by Aberdeen in the League Cup. Mid-way through 2014/15, with his contract set to expire at the end of the campaign, Caley cashed in on McKay, selling him to Wigan for a fee of around £150,000.

...

In July 2023 McKay scored for Inverness in a 2-3 League Cup defeat by Airdrie. It was his 102nd goal for the club, making him the top scorer in the club's history.

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Northern Ireland Full Cap Details:
(Roy Cathcart)

 
06-02-2013 Malta..... A D 0-0 FR. sub
10-09-2013 Luxembourg A L 2-3 WCQ sub
11-10-2013 Azerbaijan A L 0-2 WCQ sub
15-11-2013 Turkey.... A L 0-1 FR. sub
05-03-2014 Cyprus.... A D 0-0 FR. sub
30-05-2014 Uruguay... A L 0-1 FR
04-06-2014 Chile..... A L 0-2 FR
07-09-2014 Hungary... A W 2-1 ECQ sub
14-11-2014 Romania... A L 0-2 ECQ sub
25-03-2015 Scotland.. A L 0-1 FR. sub
24-03-2016 Wales..... A D 1-1 FR. sub

Summary: 9(2)/0. Won 1, Drew 3, Lost 7.

Northern Ireland Under-21 Cap Details:
19-08-2008 Poland.... N L 0-1 MT. sub
20-08-2008 Ukraine... A L 1-4 MT
05-09-2008 Germany... A L 0-3 ECQ sub
08-09-2009 Iceland... H L 2-6 ECQ
13-10-2009 Iceland... A L 1-2 ECQ sub
02-03-2010 San Marino A W 3-0 ECQ

07-09-2010 Germany .. A L 0-3 ECQ

Summary: 4(3)/0. Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 6.

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