Players - David Hannah

David Hannah
Birthdate: 28 April 1867
Birthplace: Raffrey, Co Down, Ireland
Date of death: 12 January 1936
Other clubs: Renton Thistle, Renton (1882-90), Sunderland (1890-94), Dundee (1897), Woolwich Arsenal (1897-99), Renton (2)
Signed from: Sunderland
Signed for LFC: 02.11.1894
Liverpool debut: 10.11.1894
Last appearance: 13.03.1897
Debut goal: 17.11.1894
Last goal: 30.01.1897
Contract expiry: 11.05.1897
Win ratio: 51.52% W:17 D:8 L:8
Games/goals ratio: 2.75
Honours: Second Division 1895/96
League games / goals: 31 / 11
Total games / goals: 33 / 12

Player Profile

"Chippy" Hannah arrived from the successful Sunderland side that had won the League Championship twice in his four years at the club from 1890-1894. Hannah had made a significant contribution by scoring in every third game in roughly 90 appearances. He was bought in November 1894 to strengthen Liverpool's attacking options as the club was on a serious slide down the First Division. He scored in his second game in a 2-2 draw against Everton at Anfield with a “grand shot” which was so magnificent it “almost sent the crowd frantic, even the Evertonians applauding the home team for their gallant play.” Hannah put Liverpool 2-0 up just before half-time in the following game against his old club, Sunderland, but the champion-elect showed its class by winning by three goals to two. Hannah scored six goals in 17 matches but his contribution was not enough to prevent an immediate return to the Second Division. Davy was called on 11 times the following season as Liverpool won the second division Championship for the second time in three years and made a further four appearances during the 1896/97 season, one of which saw him score two goals against Sunderland. Tom Watson, his old Sunderland boss was by then in charge of Liverpool.

“He was a beautiful goalgetter, but his greatest delight was never in the scoring of goals; it lay in his feeding of the big guns on either side of him", said a reported at the Sunderland Daily Echo in 1936. "That artful pass of his with either foot, through a defence was the means of scoring more goals than from any inside forward I ever knew."
Appearances per season
Season League FA LC Europe Other Total
Totals 31 2 0 0 0 33
1894-1895 17 1 0 0 0 18
1895-1896 11 0 0 0 0 11
1896-1897 3 1 0 0 0 4
A more detailed look at the player's appearances
Apps Minutes Opponent
3 270 Sunderland
2 180 Nottingham Forest
2 180 Arsenal
2 180 Birmingham City
2 180 Sheffield Wednesday
2 180 Sheffield United
2 180 Derby
2 180 Loughborough
1 90 Stoke City
1 90 Port Vale
1 90 Barnsley
1 90 Crewe
1 90 Burton Swifts
1 90 Burton Wanderers
1 90 Darwen
1 90 Everton
1 90 Wolves
1 90 Bolton Wanderers
1 90 Leicester City
1 90 WBA
1 90 Aston Villa
1 90 Lincoln City
1 90 Manchester United
1 90 Preston North End
Total Venue
18 Home
15 Away
Total Competition
31 League
2 FA Cup
Total W D L Win % Manager
18 6 5 7 33.3% William Edward Barclay
11 9 1 1 81.8% John McKenna
4 2 2 0 50% Tom Watson
Goals per season
Season League FA LC Europe Other Total
Totals 11 1 0 0 0 12
1894-1895 6 0 0 0 0 6
1895-1896 3 0 0 0 0 3
1896-1897 2 1 0 0 0 3
A more detailed look at the player's goalscoring
Total Competition
11 League
1 FA Cup
Total Goal origin
12 Open play
Milestone Appearances
# Date Against Stadium Competition
1 10.11.1894 Stoke Victoria Ground League
Milestone Goals
# Minute Date Against Stadium Competition
1 55 17.11.1894 Everton Anfield League
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Memories of David Hannah

From the Sunderland Daily Echo on 16 January, 1936.

Other Clubs
Club Season Club rank League apps League goals Total apps Total goals
Renton Thistle Scotland N/A N/A N/A N/A
Renton 1888-1890 Scotland N/A N/A N/A N/A
Sunderland 1890-1891 England First Division 22 4 27 4
Sunderland 1891-1892 England First Division 18 3 23 4
Sunderland 1892-1893 England First Division 20 4 23 5
Sunderland 1893-1894 England First Division 17 6 17 6
Dundee 1897 Scotland N/A N/A N/A N/A
Arsenal 1897-1898 England Second Division 20 12 23 12
Arsenal 1898-1899 England Second Division 26 5 27 5
Renton 1899- Scotland N/A N/A N/A N/A
Total 123 34 140 36