Greg Shields

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Greg Shields
Personal information
Date of birth August 21, 1976 (age 30)
Place of birth    Falkirk, Scotland
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current club Dunfermline Athletic
Number 2
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1993-1997
1997-1999
1999-2002
2002
2002
2002-2004
2004-present
Rangers
Dunfermline Athletic
Charlton Athletic
Walsall (loan)
Kilmarnock (loan)
Kilmarnock
Dunfermline Athletic
07 (0)
75 (0)
25 (2)
07 (0)
05 (0)
53 (2)
66 (2)   
National team2
1996 Scotland under-21s

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 21 September 2006.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 21 September 2006.
* Appearances (Goals)

Greg Shields (born 21 August 1976 in Falkirk) is a Scottish professional footballer currently playing for Scottish Premier League club Dunfermline Athletic.

Shieds's previous clubs are Rangers, Charlton Athletic, Walsall and Kilmarnock. He is a defender who can play at centre back or right back.

Shields started his career as a youth player with Rangers and made his debut in 1996 in UEFA Champions League tie against Ajax alongside current teammate Scott Wilson. He went on to make only a handful of appearances for the Glasgow club before a £200,000 move to Dunfermline Athletic.

After 86 consecutive appearances for the 'Pars' he swapped west Fife for south London in a £600,000 move to Alan Curbishley's Charlton Athletic. After an impressive start at The Valley, Shields ran into some injury problems which eventually ruined his Charlton career. After a brief spell on loan at Walsall, Jim Jeffries brought him back home to Scotland at SPL side Kilmarnock. He quickly established himself in the Rugby Park side becoming captain in season 2002/03. This alerted his former employers Dunfermline Athletic who swooped to take him back during the January 2004 transfer window.

Dunfermline played in the Scottish Cup final that season but Shields was cup-tied after playing in an earlier round for Kilmarnock. Injury again wrecked most of the 2004/05 season for him but now seems to have a clean bill of health.

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Dunfermline Athletic F.C. - Current Squad

1 McKenzie | 2 Shields | 3 S. Wilson | 4 Young | 5 McCunnie | 6 Thomson | 7 Simmons | 8 Mason | 9 Burchill | 10 McIntyre | 11 Muirhead | 12 S. Morrison | 13 McManus | 14 McGuire | 15 O. Morrison | 16 Hammill | 17 Daquin | 18 Tod | 19 Labonte | 20 Hamilton | 21 Woods | 22 C. Wilson | 23 Ross | 24 Bamba | 25 Crawford | 26 Kaye | 27 Phinn | 29 de Vries | 31 Smith | 32 Williamson | 33 Muir | 34 McDonough | 35 Fenwick | 36 Howie | 47 Ryan | 48 Glass | Manager: Kenny