Don Kitchenbrand
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Donald Basil Kitchenbrand[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 13 August 1933 | ||
| Place of birth | Germiston, South Africa | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1955-1958 | Rangers | 29 | (26) |
| 1958-1960 | Sunderland | 53 | (28) |
| 1960-1962 | Johannesburg Wanderers | ? | (?) |
| 1962-1963 | Forfar Athletic | 9 | (6) |
| Total | 91+ | (60+) | |
| National team | |||
| South Africa | 1 | (0) | |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Don Kitchenbrand (also Kichenbrand; born 13 August 1933) was a South African football player who played in Britain for Rangers and Sunderland in the mid to late 1950s. He was nicknamed The Rhino by Rangers fans.[1]
In his first season in British football (1955-1956), Kitchenbrand scored 24 goals in 25 league appearances to help Rangers win the Scottish League title.[2] That season's goal tally included a 5-goal haul in an 8-0 rout of Queen of the South at Ibrox on 7 March 1956.[3] Kitchenbrand didn't feature much for Rangers after that first season,[2] having lost his place in the side to Max Murray,[4] and left for Sunderland in March 1958.[4][5]
Kitchenbrand played 54 competitive games for Sunderland, scoring 28 goals.[6] In November 1958 he scored a hat-trick in a 4-0 win over Rotherham, the first hat-trick a Sunderland player had achieved in two years.[7]
Kitchenbrand returned to his homeland in 1960 to play for Johannesburg Wanderers,[4] before coming back to Scotland two years later for a brief spell at Forfar Athletic.[8]
Honours
- Rangers
- Scottish League Champions (1): 1955-56[4]
References
- 1 2 "Don Kitchenbrand: Rangers Secret Catholic" (in Dutch). Doing the 116 Blog. 13 July 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- 1 2 "Kitchenbrand, Don". RangersPedia. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ↑ "Rangers Player Don Kichenbrand, Games Played". Fitbastats.com. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 Houghton, Ashley (7 February 2014). "Player of the Day: Don Kitchenbrand". Sunderland Association Football Club. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- ↑ "Don Kichenbrand". Weltfussball.de. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ↑ "Sunderland AFC - Statistics, History and Records - from TheStatCat". Thestatcat.co.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ↑ "Sunderland Teams 1958/59". rokerpark.com. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- ↑ "Forfar Athletic Player Donald Kitchenbrand Details". Fitbastats.com. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
External links
- Don Kitchenbrand - Rangers secret Catholic, Doing the 116 Blog (in Dutch)
- Don Kitchenbrand career at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
- Don Kitchenbrand Rangers career stats, FitbaStats