Boyd, Kris
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Since Boyd's move to Rangers, he was responsible for 35% of our goals in that time period and was the second fastest player in our history to reach 100 goals behind Jim Forrest. We lost only one game in which Boyd scored in: against Dunfermline in Ian Durrant's only match in charge.
Kilmarnock
On 25th August 1999, Boyd signed for local Ayrshire club, Kilmarnock, making his debut against Celtic in the last game of the 2000/01 season against Celtic. He managed to get a place in the team the following season, following the departure of Ally McCoist and Christophe Cocard and went on to score five goals.
Boyd went on to score another 63 goals for Kilmarnock over the course of the next four seasons, scoring five against Dundee United (having a sixth disallowed) almost setting a new SPL Record.
In the 2005/2006 season Boyd turned down two £500,000 offers from Championship sides Cardiff City and Sheffield Wednesday. He played his last game for the club on 17th December 2005 against Falkirk, scoring a goal in the last minute with the last touch of the ball.
Rangers
On January 1st 2006, he signed for his boyhood heroes, for a fee of around £400,000. Generously Boyd waived £20,000, half of his signing on fee, to the Kilmarnock Youth Development.
Boyd scored 20 goals in 17 starts for Rangers in the second half of the 2005/2006 season, finishing with 37 goals in the SPL, Europes top goal scorer, and the first player to be top scorer for two teams in the same season.
He was suspended for the first match of the 2006/2007 season, and left out of the team for the following two games under Le Guen, where Rangers drew 2-2 with Dundee United, and 1-1 with Dunfermline. Boyd was back in the starting 11 for the following game and scored both goals in a 2-0 win over hearts. Boyd's goal scoring continued with two goals against former club Kilmarnock and a fantastic 30 yard volley against Dunfermiline from which Allan McGregor picked him out from 85 yards.
Boyd caused controversy after scoring a penalty against Motherwell when he held up six fingers, apparently for the then , stripped club captain Barry Ferguson, dropped by Paul Le Guen following a dressing room bust up. Following Le Guen's departure Boyd scored a double to welcome back Walter Smith in his first game back against Dundee United. In February of that year he scored a hat trick against his former club, Kilmarnock, and another against Aberdeen at Ibrox. Boyd's 100th Scottish Premier League goal, and his first against Celtic came on 5th May 2006, in a 2-0 victory for Rangers.
On 26th September 2007, 627 days after his debut, Boyd became the second fastest Ranger ever to score 50 goals for the club second only to Jim Forrest. He scored his fifth hat-trick for Rangers in a 6-0 Scottish Cup win against East Stirling.
The first trophy of Boyd's career came on 16th March 2008 when Rangers beat Dundee United in the final, to win the Scottish League Cup. Boyd was, as quoting the commentator Paul Mitchell "The hero in 90 minutes, the hero in 120 mins, and the hero in the penalty shootout", scoring both of Rangers goals in a 2-2 draw, and the winning penalty in the subsequent penalty shootout. Later that season he also scored a double, again in a final, to secure his second trophy, and win the Scottish Cup 3-2 over Queen of the South.
The 2008/2009 season beagin with Cardiff City failing to lure Boyd (once again) to the English Championship. He opened his tally for that season with a 92nd minute penalty against Hearts, and knocked in his sixth hat trick of his Rangers career at Ibrox against Inverness CT in a 5-0 win. Three days later, Boyd scored another hat trick against Hamilton Accies, his seventh of his career. The January 2009 transfer window was full of speculation of a move away to Birmingham City, alongside former manager Alex McLeish. Rangers accept a £3 million bid, however Boyd wanted to stay at Rangers and declined. Boyd's 100th goal of his career came for Rangers in a Scottish Cup Semi Final match versus St Mirren, on April 25th 2009. The game ended 3-0 and sent Rangers into the final. Boyd scored in the final game of the season, against Dundee United at Tannadice, helping Rangers secure the Scottish Premier League Trophy for the 52nd time.
At the start of the 2009/2010 season speculation, again, mounted about Boyd's future at Rangers, with his contract due to expire at the end of the season, Boyd rejected any move away and said he wanted to stay at Rangers. Ian Durrant commented that Boyd's contract will depend on how Rangers faired in Europe.
Although Boyd broke his duck at Tynecastle, the 2009/10 season never really got going for him until after we suffered an embarrassing loss to Unirea Urziceni. His revival would start at Ibrox against Hibs where he produced a performance that included a goal and work outside the box, a thing fans had complained about in the past. His form would force Walter Smith to pick him to start his first Champions League match at home to VFB Stuttgart. We lost this match and Boyd missed a header from 6 yards out with the score at 1-1. Scoring in big games is another thing leveled against Boyd but that wouldn't dent his confidence. Our fantastic domestic form started at Falkirk and Kris Boyd would be in the middle of it. He scored 2 goals and followed that up against St Johnstone with another two goals. He didn't score away at Dundee United but grabbed one against Motherwell and at Hibs. His goal at Easter Road put him 3 goals to overtaking Henrik Larsson as the top scorer in SPL history. On the 30th December 2009, he would break this...and in style. A 9 minute 22 second hat-trick would put him level on goals with the Swede. With the next game at Parkhead would he save it to then? No he wouldn't. In the 75th minute, the people sitting in the Copland would witness history being made as Boyd followed up his initial effort by putting it past Nicky Weaver. He broke the record with a typical Kris Boyd goal and he celebrated by sticking out his tongue, a celebration Larsson was famous for! The tannoy played Simply The Best and they would be playing it again 5 minutes later as, for the second time in his career, he scored for the fifth time in the one game. If he keeps up his performances along with his goals, he will be a Rangers legend.
Well he didn't keep up his performances with goals. Since that night against Dundee United at Ibrox where he got the 5 and broke the record, he was pretty abysmal. He started the new year match at Parkhead and after that went for a hernia operation. He was back within 3 weeks and perhaps that contributed in his poor performances, but it didn't excuse his poor attitude. When Celtic signed Robbie Keane in the January transfer window everyone predicted Boyd would still outscore the Irishman. He scored 7, Keane got 16. Obviously going through his longest goal drought in his career and scoring 0 goals in 10 games from open play didn't help. Obviously with Kris being out of contract at the end of the season people wondered what the future held for him. He said Walter Smith's future would be a big factor in where he was playing his football the next season. While Walter signed on, Boyd didn't and interest came from England, Spain, Italy, Germany and Turkey. The offer of £20k a week wasn't enough for Boyd as he accepted a £28k a week offer from.. Middlesbrough. He said that Middlesbrough boss, ex Celtic manager Gordon Strachan, was the manager to take his game to the next level and that he was a proven winner, as you saw with Celtic. Not really things you want to hear from a player whose departure left a few people bitter about how a Rangers fan could leave his team to join a club like Middlesbrough and praise ex-Celtic managers. Nevertheless, hopefully Boyd does well down there. The whole affair will have soured people's memories of him though.
For a list of players that have scored 100+ goals for Rangers, click here
Rangers Career Statistics
| Season | League | Cup | League Cup | European | Friendlies | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |
| 2005/06 | 17 | 17 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 21 | 20 |
| 2006/07 | 32 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 50 | 31 |
| 2007/08 | 28 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 4 | - | 5 | 1 | 46 | 26 |
| 2008/09 | 35 | 27 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | 5 | 2 | 51 | 33 |
| 2009/10 | 31 | 23 | 5 | 3 | 2 | - | 2 | - | 6 | - | 46 | 26 |
| Total | 143 | 101 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 19 | 3 | 22 | 8 | 214 | 136 |
Kris Boyd Rangers Statistics
Stats now updated to end of season 2009/10
Overall
193 Games (incl 40 sub appearances)
128 Goals (28 Pens)
1 Quintuple
7 Hat-tricks
21 Doubles
Played 13,169 minutes for Rangers = 1 goal per 102.88 minutes
77 Goals at Ibrox, 45 goals away and 6 at Hampden.
Only missed one game through suspension during his time at Ibrox (Motherwell a - 30 July 2006)
Missed 12 games through injury - 5 in the period 9/12/06 to 27/12/06 incl, the CL match v Seville (a) and then 6 in period 16/1/2010 to 30/1/2010.
Has only played a full 90 (or 120) minutes on 80 occasions
Has been an unused sub 33 times - all under Walter Smith.
Has played in 191 out of Rangers 240 competitive games since he came to Ibrox. In the 191 competitive matches that Boyd has appeared, Rangers have scored 368 goals, so Boyd's 128 goals represents 34.78% of the clubs goals.
His longest run of starts for Rangers was 16 games from 28 Oct 08 to 17 Jan 09.
His longest run of consecutive scoring matches was 4 - he has done this twice. First time was the last 2 matches of PLG's tenure, Durrant's only game in charge, and Smith's first game in charge. Second time was more recently (St Johnstone 17/10/09, Hibs 24/10/09, St Mirren 7/11/09 and Killie 21/11/09).
His longest run without a goal since moving to Rangers was 7 games and this happened twice during his Rangers career (12/9/09 to 4/10/09 incl and 10/2/10 to 21/3/10 incl).
He has missed only 4 penalties in his Rangers career; at home to Dundee United, away to Kilmarnock, home to Maccabi Haifa and at home to Aberdeen although he scored the rebound.
Went 10 consecutive games without a goal from open play between 17th February 2010 and 3rd April 2010. He scored 2 penalties in this time, both against Dundee United.
In Europe
19 European Games, 3 Goals (1 of which was a pen)
14 games was either sub (8) or was subbed (6). Only 5 games started and completed - 1 in CL (stuttgart 24/11/09 and 4 in Uefa).
19 games = 7 loses, 7 draws and 5 wins.
978 minutes of action in Europe
Average number of minutes on the field - 51 minutes.
Least minutes on field = 1 minute v Villareal (H)
Scored pen against Livorno (A)
2 goals from open play in Europe were v Auxerre (a) and Hapoel (H)
Was an unused sub in the 6 consecutive Uefa Cup matches in season 2007/2008 prior to the final.
Started all the European games (5) under Paul le Guen
Has only started in one CL group match. Indeed, has only played 143 minutes in 5 matches in the CL proper. And 89 minutes in total in 3 CL qualifying matches.
Missed one European match through injury - Seville away (9/12/09)
Has never scored after coming on as a sub in a European match (7 games).
In League
142 games, incl 25 sub appearances.
101 goals, incl 22 Pens
Won 92, Drew 31 and Lost 19.
Has scored 7 goals after coming on as a sub, all were in matches that we won by 2 goals or more, with the exception of Hearts at Tynecastle on 23/8/09.
65 goals at Ibrox and 36 away.
Boyd had 63 SPL goals for Killie, when combined with the 101 scored for Rangers, he has a total of 164. This is an SPL record and breaks the Martians SPL record of 158 goals.
Season by Season at Rangers across all competitions
2005/06 - 21 games (4 as sub), 20 goals (2 Pens), 10 complete games.
2006/07 - 44 games (8 as sub), 26 goals (8 pens), 22 complete games
2007/08 - 41 games (16 as sub), 25 goals (5 pens), 10 complete games
2008/09 - 46 games (6 as sub), 31 goals (7 pens), 23 complete games
2009/10 - 39 games (12 as sub), 26 goals (6 pens), 15 complete games
SPL v Each team
V Aberdeen = 15 SPL games incl 6 as sub, 7 goals, missed 2 game (1 through injury and 1 as unused sub). Won 6, Drew 5 Lost 4. 1 Hat trick. 828 minutes played in total v Aberdeen in SPL.
V Celtic = 9 SPL games incl 1 as sub, 1 goal (no pens), Missed 9 games - 6 as unused sub, 2 not in squad but available and 1 through injury. Won 4, Drew 2 Lost 3. 639 minutes played in total v Celtic in SPL.
V Dundee United = 15 SPL games incl 5 as sub, 14 goals (1 pen), Missed 1 game as unused sub. 1 Quintuple, 1 hat-trick and 1 double. Won 8 Drew 5 Lost 2. 954 minutes played v DU in SPL.
V Dunfermline = 4 SPL games incl 2 as sub, 1 goal (no pens). Won 3 and Drew 1. 255 minutes played v DA in SPL.
V Falkirk = 12 SPL games incl 2 as sub, 11 goals (2 pens). Scored on both sub apps. Won 11 and Drew 1.Two doubles. 817 minutes played v Falkirk in SPL.
V Gretna = 2 SPL games incl 1 as sub, 2 goals (1 pen). Won 2. Missed 1 game as unused sub. 105 minutes played v Gretna in SPL.
V Hamilton = 5 SPL games, 7 goals (2 Pens). 1 hat trick and 2 double. Won 5. 410 minutes played v Accies in SPL.
V Hearts = 15 SPL games, 7 goals (3 pens). 2 Doubles. Won 10, drew 3 and Lost 2. Missed 2 games (1 as unused sub and 1 through injury). 1088 minutes played v Hearts in SPL.
V Hibs = 13 SPL games (incl 2 as sub), 7 goals. 1 double. Won 7, drew 4 and lost 2. Missed 4 games, 4 as unused sub and 1 through injury. 970 minutes played v Hibs in SPL
V ICT = 8 SPL games (incl 1 as sub), 8 goals. 1 hat trick and 2 doubles. Won 5, drew 1 and lost 2. Missed 2 games - 1 as unused sub and 1 through injury. 560 minutes played v ICT in SPL.
V Killie = 14 SPL games (no subs), 14 goals incl 5 pens. 1 hat trick and 2 doubles. Won 11, drew 2 and lost 1. 1148 minutes played v Killie in SPL
V Livingston = 1 SPL game, 2 goals (no pens). 1 double - obviously! Won 1. 80 minutes played v Livvy in SPL.
V Motherwell = 15 SPL games inc 2 sub apps, 10 goals (3 pens). 1 double. Won 8 Drew 7. Missed 1 game through suspension. 1143 minutes played v Motherwell in SPL.
V St Johnstone = 3 SPL games, 3 goals (1 pen). Won 2, Drew 0, Lost 1. 216 minutes played v St Johnstone in the SPL.
V St Mirren = 11 SPL games, 7 goals (1 pen). Won 9 Drew 1 lost 1. 899 minutes played v St Mirren in SPL.
SPL v TOP SIX teams (up to and including season 09/10) = 73 games (incl 15 as sub), 44 goals (9 pens). Of those 73 games, 36 were away from home where his record is 36 games (incl 10 sub apps) and 16 goals (4 pens)
In League Cup
12 matches incl 2 sub apps.
9 goals incl 1 Pen.
Won 10 (incl 1 on Pens), Lost 2 (1 AET)
No hat-tricks, 2 doubles.
Scored 2 goals after coming on as sub.
Has only missed 3 games in League Cup during his time at Ibrox - unused sub v Hearts LCSF 30/1/08 and Dundee 27/10/09, injured v St Johnstone 3/2/10.
1 goal at Ibrox, 5 away and 3 at Hampden.
V Dunfermline 1 goal, won.
V St Johnstone (2 games) 0 goals, won 1 and lost 1.
V East Fife 2 goals (1 pen). Game won.
V Motherwell 1 goal. Game won.
V Dundee Utd (LCF) 2 goals after coming on as sub
V Partick 1 goal. Game won.
V Hamilton 1 goal. Game won.
v Falkirk 1 goal. Game won.
v Celtic 0 goals. Came on as sub. Game Lost.
v QotS 0 goals. Game won.
v St Mirren 0 goals. game won.
In Scottish Cup
18 matches incl 5 sub apps.
15 goals incl 4 Pen.
Won 10, Drew 5, Lost 3
2 hat-tricks, 3 doubles.
Hasn't scored any goals after coming on as sub.
Only missed 2 games in Scottish Cup during his time at Ibrox - not in squad v St Johnstone SCSF 20/4/08 and Hamilton 19/1/10 (injury).
10 goals at Ibrox, 2 away and 3 at Hampden.
V Peterhead, Hat-trick (1 pen). Game won.
V Hibs (3 games incl 2 as sub), 0 goals. Won 1, Drew 1 and Lost 1.
V Dunfermline, 2 goals. Game lost.
V East Stirling, 3 goals (1 pen). Game won.
V Partick (2 games), 1 goal. 1 draw and 1 win.
V Queen of the South, 2 goals. Game won (SCF).
V Forfar, 0 goals. Game won.
V Hamilton (2 games), 1 start and 1 sub appearance. 0 goals. 1 win and 1 draw
V St Mirren, 1 goal. Game won (SCSF)
V Falkirk, 0 goals. Game won (SCF)
V Hamilton, 0 goals. Draw
V St Mirren, 0 goals. Draw
V St Mirren, 1 goal. Game won.
V Dundee Utd, 2 goals (pens). Draw.
V Dundee Utd, 0 goals. Game lost.
Under the managers
Eck - 21 matches, 20 goals inc 2 Pens. 17 starts and 4 sub appearances. Only played 10 full games and was taken off in 7 games. Won 13, Drew 5 and Lost 3. 2 Hat-tricks and 4 doubles. Missed 0 competitive games under McLeish. Averaged 70 minutes per game (exc Injury time).
PLG - 25 matches, 13 goals inc 6 Pens. 18 starts and 7 sub appearances. Only played 10 full games and was taken off in 8 games. Won 12, Drew 7 and Lost 6. No Hat-tricks and 2 doubles. Missed 6 competitive games under PLG (1 susp and 5 injury). Averaged 68 minutes per game (exc Injury time).
Durrant - 1 match, 2 goals. 1 start. Lost 1. One double. Played whole 90 mins. Missed 0 competitive games under Durrant.
Smith (as at end 2009/2010 season) - 144 matches, 93 goals inc 20 pens. 115 starts and 29 sub appearances. Won 92 (incl 1 on pens), Drew 31 and Lost 21 (inc 1 AET). 1 quintuple, 5 Hat-tricks and 14 doubles. Sub or subbed in 85 games, only played 59 complete games. Missed 43 competitive games under Smith - 33 as unused sub and 3 not in squad but available for selection and 7 through injury. Averages 68.75 minutes per game (excl injury time).
Images
 Kris Boyd scoring for Rangers season 2008/2009. (Photograph: Alex Lister) |
 Kris Boyd on his last game for Kilmarnock. |
 Kris Boyd celebrating his last minute penalty against Hearts. |
 Boyd creates history by becoming the top scorer in SPL history. |
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 Kris Boyd is presented with the Golden Boot. |
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