John Divers (1950s footballer)

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John Divers is a Scottish former football player who played with Celtic and Partick Thistle.

The son of former Scottish international John senior, he played 242 games for Celtic between 1957 and 1966. Playing mostly as an inside left, he scored 110 goals for the club. He contributed to Celtic's greatest ever achievement of winning the European Cup in 1967 and nine championships in a row by scoring the first goal of that period, away against Dundee United in 1965. He joined Partick Thistle in the early part of the 1966-67 season.