scottish association football actor
This article is about the football player. For the Canadian ice ice hockey player, see Ryan Christie ( ice ice hockey )
Ryan Christie ( wear 22 February 1995 ) is a scottish professional football player who plays as a midfielder for EFL Championship club AFC Bournemouth and the Scotland national team. He began his career with Inverness Caledonian Thistle before joining Celtic in 2015, and had two spells on loan at Aberdeen. He has besides represented the Scotland under-21 and wide national teams.

Club career [edit ]

Inverness Caledonian Thistle [edit ]

Christie was born in Inverness in 1995 ; he is the son of football player Charlie Christie, who was playing for Caledonian Thistle at the fourth dimension and who had previously been a reserve player with Celtic. Christie joined the Inverness Caledonian Thistle young system aged 10, [ 2 ] before finally signing his first professional narrow in 2011. [ 3 ] He signed a new distribute with the club under Terry Butcher, and was among respective youngsters to be promoted to the clubhouse ‘s first team. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Christie made his debut in the scottish Premiership against Celtic on 29 December 2013. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He came on as a substitute in the hundredth infinitesimal in the Scottish League Cup Final against Aberdeen, a bet on that Inverness lost on penalties. [ 8 ] Despite this, Christie helped the baseball club finish in the top-six of the scottish Premiership. His first goal for Inverness came in a 2–1 loss against Motherwell on 1 April 2014. [ 9 ] Christie added two more goals later in the season against Dundee United and St Johnstone. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] After impressive displays for Inverness, Christie signed a new contract with the club at the end of the 2013–14 temper. [ 12 ] Christie scored his first gear goal of the 2014–15 season in a 2–0 win over Hamilton Academical. [ 13 ] Christie ‘s performances against Dundee, Motherwell, Celtic, Kilmarnock and Partick Thistle saw him win the SPFL Young Player of the Month for August. [ 14 ] During a equal against St Mirren in October 2014, he was sent-off for the first time in his career – being dismissed by referee Willie Collum for two-bookable offences. [ 15 ] Christie added to his earlier success by winning the SPFL Young Player of the Month prize for February 2015, [ 16 ] and his attention-getting form over the solid season subsequently saw him shortlisted for the Young Player of the Year award. [ 17 ] Although he did n’t win that award, he was late honoured with the SFWA Young Player of the Year award. [ 18 ] Christie started the 2015 scottish Cup Final and was later substituted for James Vincent, who scored the winning goal in a 2–1 victory over Falkirk. [ 19 ] After the equal, Christie described winning the scottish Cup as “unbelievable, hard to put into words” .

celtic [edit ]

On 1 September 2015, Christie joined Celtic on a four-year conduct. After signing for the scottish champions, Christie was immediately sent back to Inverness on a season-long loan deal. [ 20 ] He sustained a knee injury against Motherwell in November, and was recalled by Celtic so he could work with their checkup staff at their Lennoxtown train complex. [ 21 ] In December 2015, Celtic announced they would be recalling Christie from his lend spell at Inverness. [ 22 ] Christie made his introduction for Celtic on 23 January 2016 in their 3–1 gain over St Johnstone, coming on as an 88th-minute alternate for Stuart Armstrong. [ 23 ]

aberdeen loans [edit ]

On 24 January 2017, Christie joined Aberdeen on lend until the end of the 2016–17 season. [ 24 ] He scored his first goal for Aberdeen on 4 February 2017, in a 2–0 win against Partick Thistle. [ 25 ] He helped Aberdeen finish second in the 2016–17 scots Premiership and progress to the 2017 scottish Cup Final, but was ineffective to take separate in the cup final because it was against his parent club Celtic. [ 26 ] Christie returned to Aberdeen on loan for most of the 2017–18 season, moving in June 2017 as separate of a batch for Jonny Hayes. [ 27 ]
Christie returned to Celtic for the 2018–19 season. Neil Lennon, who returned to Celtic as coach late in the season, said in July 2019 that he had wanted to sign Christie for Hibernian during the summer of 2018 as part of a proposed deal for John McGinn. [ 28 ] In the 2018–19 League Cup semi-final against Hearts at Murrayfield, Christie won a penalty, caused a goalkeeping error and hit a “ fantastic left-foot shoot ” leading to each goal in the eventual 3–0 victory. [ 29 ] Christie signed a new contract with Celtic in November 2018. [ 30 ] On 2 December, he scored the only goal of the 2018 Scottish League Cup Final at Hampden against erstwhile club Aberdeen. [ 31 ] His season ended abruptly on 14 April 2019 in the scottish Cup semi-final, again at Hampden against Aberdeen, when he suffered facial fractures in an antenna collision with opposition Dominic Ball, who was sent off for the foolhardy nature of the challenge. [ 32 ] [ 33 ]
Christie scored a hat-trick in a 7–0 succeed against St Johnstone in the beginning game of the 2019–20 scots Premiership season. [ 34 ] In October 2020, he scored the hatchway goal of the 2019–20 scots Cup semi-final against Aberdeen ( delayed from its common April schedule due the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland, which besides led to Celtic being awarded the Premiership title after the season was curtailed ) with a curling left-footed injection from outside the penalty sphere – Celtic won 2–0. [ 35 ] In the final against Hearts he scored a very exchangeable finish, [ 36 ] again the first of the equal and with about the lapp measure of time elapsed, but then missed his punishment in the subsequent gunfight following a 3–3 drawing card after extra time ; he was the only Celtic actor to fail with his attempt as they won the trophy. [ 37 ]

AFC Bournemouth [edit ]

On 31 August 2021, Christie moved to England, joining Championship club AFC Bournemouth on a three-year contract, for a reported transfer fee of around £1.5 million. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] On 11 September 2021, Christie came off the terrace to make his Bournemouth debut in the english ‘s 3–0 gain over Barnsley. [ 40 ]

International career [edit ]

On 25 August 2014, Christie was called up by Scotland U21. [ 41 ] After being left on the bench against Slovakia U21, Christie ultimately made his Scotland U21 debut against Luxembourg U21 on 9 September 2014, coming on as a substitute for Lewis Macleod in the moment half, which Scotland U21 won 3–0. [ 42 ] [ 43 ]

Christie received his first call-up to the elder Scotland squad for a friendly against the Netherlands in November 2017, [ 44 ] and played the full 90 minutes of the 1–0 defeat. [ 45 ] He scored his first external goal on 16 November 2019, opening the score with a curling shoot from outside the penalty area in a 2–1 away win over Cyprus in UEFA Euro 2020 reservation. [ 46 ] In September 2020, he scored penalties in consecutive matches as Scotland drew with Israel [ 47 ] and defeated the Czech Republic in the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League. [ 48 ] In October 2020, Christie was required to pull out of the Scotland team for a euro 2020 play-off semi-final against Israel after being in near contact with Stuart Armstrong, who had tested positive for COVID-19. [ 49 ] A month subsequently, Christie returned to the team and scored Scotland ‘s lone finish in the Euro 2020 play-off final against Serbia ; they won the tie after a penalty gunfight after a 1–1 draw, qualifying for a major tournament for the first time in 22 years. [ 50 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of 27 November 2021[51]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup League Cup Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2013–14[52] Scottish Premiership 15 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 17 3
2014–15[53] Scottish Premiership 35 4 6 0 1 0 0 0 42 4
2015–16[54] Scottish Premiership 6 2 0 0 0 0 2[a] 0 8 2
Total 56 9 7 0 2 0 2 0 67 9
Inverness Caledonian Thistle (loan) 2015–16[54] Scottish Premiership 7 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 9 1
Celtic 2015–16[54] Scottish Premiership 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 1
2016–17[55] Scottish Premiership 5 1 0 0 1 0 1[b] 0 7 1
2017–18[56] Scottish Premiership 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2018–19[57] Scottish Premiership 23 9 3 0 2 2 10[c] 0 38 11
2019–20[58] Scottish Premiership 24 11 4 2 3 0 14[d] 7 45 20
2020–21[59] Scottish Premiership 34 5 2 1 1 0 9[e] 1 46 7
2021–22[60] Scottish Premiership 4 0 0 0 0 0 4[f] 1 8 1
Total 95 27 10 3 7 2 38 9 150 41
Aberdeen (loan) 2016–17[55] Scottish Premiership 13 6 2 1 0 0 0 0 15 7
2017–18[56][51] Scottish Premiership 32 4 5 2 2 0 4[a] 2 43 8
Total 45 10 7 3 2 0 4 2 58 15
AFC Bournemouth 2021–22[61] Championship 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0
Career total 217 47 24 6 13 2 44 11 298 66
  1. a b Appearance ( mho ) in the UEFA Europa League
  2. ^ Appearance ( randomness ) in the UEFA Champions League
  3. ^ Two appearances in the UEFA Champions League, eight appearances in the UEFA Europa League
  4. ^ Six appearances and four goals in the UEFA Champions League, eight appearances and three goals in the UEFA Europa League
  5. ^ Two appearances and one goal in the UEFA Champions League, five appearances in the UEFA Europa League
  6. ^ Two appearances in the UEFA Champions League

International [edit ]

As of 12 October 2021[62]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Scotland 2017 1 0
2018 4 0
2019 6 1
2020 5 3
2021 9 0
Total 25 4
As of match played 12 November 2020.
Scores and results list Scotland’s goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Christie goal.

Honours [edit ]

club [edit ]

Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Celtic

individual [edit ]

References [edit ]