Leeds United

After playing junior football in Dundee for Stobswell Boys and Broughty YMCA, Lorimer signed for Leeds United in May 1962 after scoring for the Scotland Schoolboys team in a 4–2 win over England.^[5][7] He made his Leeds debut on 29 September 1962 against Southampton, aged 15 years and 289 days, becoming the youngest player to play for the first team.^[7][3]

Lorimer came to regular prominence in the 1965–66 season, making 34 League Championship appearances and scoring 19 goals, more than any other player at Leeds United managed that season. A skilful and industrious player who operated best in a drifting position either wide on the right (though not as an orthodox winger – he was more likely to cut in and shoot than stay wide and cross) or behind two main strikers (usually Allan Clarke and Mick Jones), Lorimer was a frequent and often spectacular goalscorer, earning himself several nicknames stemming from his powerful shooting – HotShot and Lash being two of the more prevalent.^[8] He became renowned for these strikes, with his shots reaching speeds of up to 90 mph.^[9] One penalty kick was recorded at 107 mph.^[10]

In the 1966–67 season, Lorimer made his first major headlines when a free-kick equaliser against Chelsea in an FA Cup semi-final was controversially ruled out by referee Ken Burns and retaken, for the Chelsea players had not retreated the necessary 10 yards. Chelsea held on to win the game.^[11] In the 1975 European Cup Final, Lorimer scored to give Leeds a 1–0 lead, only for the goal to be controversially disallowed by referee Michel Kitabdjian, with Leeds going on to lose the game.^[8] In summer 1971, Lorimer had a short spell on loan at Cape Town City in South Africa.^[12] Lorimer left the club in 1979, having scored 219 goals in 616 appearances.^[13] During this time he had won two League titles, an FA Cup, a League Cup, a Charity Shield, and two Inter-Cities Fairs Cups.^[12][14]

Later career

He played for York City and then tried his luck in the North American Soccer League (NASL). Lorimer played for two clubs: the Toronto Blizzard (1979–1980) and the Vancouver Whitecaps (1981–83). In January 1983 he signed for University College Dublin.^[15]

Lorimer returned to Leeds United in 1983, aged 37, two seasons after Leeds had fallen into the Football League Second Division.^[8] He played under former team-mate Eddie Gray (more than a year his junior) and broke the club's goalscoring record in the process, ending up with 238 goals from 705 appearances until retiring just before his 40th birthday at the end of the 1985–86 season.^[8] However, Leeds were still a Second Division team when Lorimer played his final game for them and it would be another four years before they returned to the First Division.^[16]

Club

International

Scores and results list Scotland goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Scotland goal.

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List of international goals scored by Peter Lorimer^[27][28]

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	20 May 1972	Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland	Northern Ireland	2–0	2–0	1971–72 British Home Championship
2	24 May 1972	Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland	Wales	1–0	1–0	1971–72 British Home Championship
3	15 November 1972	Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland	Denmark	2–0	2–0	1974 FIFA World Cup qualification
4	14 June 1974	Westfalenstadion, Dortmund, Germany	Zaire	1–0	2–0	1974 FIFA World Cup

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