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{{short description|Scottish footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name= Peter Shevlin
| image=
| fullname=
| height= 5ft 7in<ref name=hamb/>
| position= [[Goalkeeper (association football)|Goalkeeper]]
| birth_date= 18 November 1902<ref>[https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=people&dl_cat=statutory&dl_rec=statutory-births&surname=Shevlin&surname_so=syn&forename=Peter&forename_so=fuzzy&sex=M&from_year=1901&to_year=1907&record_type=stat_births Statutory registers – Births – Search results], [[ScotlandsPeople]]</ref>
| birth_place= [[Hamilton, South Lanarkshire|Hamilton]], Scotland
| death_date= {{death date and age|10 Oct 1948|18 Nov 1902|df=y}}
| death_place= [[Withington Community Hospital]], England
| youthyears1=
| youthclubs1=
| years1= –
| clubs1= [[Pollok F.C.|Pollok]]
| caps1= | goals1=
| years2= –
| clubs2= [[St Roch's F.C.|St Roch's]]
| caps2= | goals2=
| years3= 1924–1927
| clubs3= [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]]
| caps3= 86 | goals3= 0
| years4 = 1927–1929
| clubs4= [[South Shields F.C. (1889)|South Shields]]
| caps4= 66 | goals4= 0
| years5= 1929–1931
| clubs5= [[Nelson F.C.|Nelson]]
| caps5= 53 | goals5= 0
| years6= 1931–1933
| clubs6= [[Shelbourne F.C.|Shelbourne]]
| caps6= | goals6=
| years7= 1933–1935
| clubs7= [[Hamilton Academical F.C.|Hamilton Academical]]
| caps7= 71 | goals7= 0
| years8= 1934
| clubs8= → [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]] (loan)
| caps8= 0 | goals8= 0
| years9= 1935–1936
| clubs9= [[Albion Rovers F.C.|Albion Rovers]]
| caps9= 16 | goals9= 0
| totalcaps= 292 | totalgoals = 0
| manageryears1= 1931–1933
| managerclubs1= [[Shelbourne F.C.|Shelbourne]]
}}
'''Peter Shevlin''' (1902–1948) was a Scottish [[Association football|footballer]] who played as a [[Goalkeeper (association football)|goalkeeper]].

He is mainly remembered for his time with [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]], joining the club from the [[Scottish Junior Football Association|Junior grade]] in [[Glasgow]].<ref name=litsterprewar>{{cite journal|title=A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players|author=John Litster|publisher=Scottish Football Historian magazine|date=October 2012}}</ref> He had a relatively short period as their first choice goalkeeper, in between the spells of [[Charlie Shaw (footballer born 1885)|Charlie Shaw]] and [[John Thomson (footballer, born 1909)|John Thomson]]. He did take part in winning the [[Scottish Cup]] in [[1925 Scottish Cup Final|1925]], the [[Scottish Football League]] in [[1925–26 Scottish Division One|1925–26]] and the [[Glasgow Cup]] in 1926–27 (having played in the team that lost in the finals of both that competition and the Scottish Cup in the [[1925 Scottish Cup Final|previous year]]).<ref>[http://www.fitbastats.com/celtic/player.php?playerid=2445 (Celtic player) Shevlin, Peter], FitbaStats</ref><ref>[https://thecelticstar.com/matt-corr-and-they-gave-us-james-mcgrory-and-danny-dawson/4/ Matt Corr – And they gave us James McGrory and Danny Dawson] (page 4), The Celtic Star, 18 March 2020</ref>

He later played for [[South Shields F.C. (1889)|South Shields]] and [[Nelson F.C.|Nelson]] in England,<ref>[http://www.doingthe92.com/display_player.asp?step=61&ID=247&pid=52309&ptag=Peter_Shevlin Peter Shevlin], Doing The 92</ref> was player-manager of [[Shelbourne F.C.|Shelbourne]] in Ireland,<ref name=hamb/> then returned to Scotland with [[Hamilton Academical F.C.|Hamilton Academical]] (where injury cost him a place in the [[1935 Scottish Cup Final]])<ref name=hamb>[https://sites.google.com/site/hamiltonacademicalmemorybank/players/shevlin-peter-1933 Shevlin, Peter (1933)], Hamilton Academical Memory Bank</ref> and [[Albion Rovers F.C.|Albion Rovers]].

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Shevlin,+Peter?t=anon article]

{{Shelbourne F.C. managers}}

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[[Category:Men's association football goalkeepers]]
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Peter Shevlin - Revision history

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