Don Kitchenbrand

Don Kitchenbrand
Personal information
Full name Donald Basil Kitchenbrand[1]
Date of birth (1933-08-13)13 August 1933
Place of birth Germiston, South Africa
Playing position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1955-1958 Rangers 29 (26)
1958-1960 Sunderland 53 (28)
1960-1962 Johannesburg Wanderers ? (?)
1962-1963 Forfar Athletic 9 (6)
Total 91+ (60+)
National team
South Africa 1 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Don Kitchenbrand (also Kichenbrand; born 13 August 1933) was a South African football player who played in Britain for Rangers and Sunderland in the mid to late 1950s. He was nicknamed The Rhino by Rangers fans.[1]

In his first season in British football (1955-1956), Kitchenbrand scored 24 goals in 25 league appearances to help Rangers win the Scottish League title.[2] That season's goal tally included a 5-goal haul in an 8-0 rout of Queen of the South at Ibrox on 7 March 1956.[3] Kitchenbrand didn't feature much for Rangers after that first season,[2] having lost his place in the side to Max Murray,[4] and left for Sunderland in March 1958.[4][5]

Kitchenbrand played 54 competitive games for Sunderland, scoring 28 goals.[6] In November 1958 he scored a hat-trick in a 4-0 win over Rotherham, the first hat-trick a Sunderland player had achieved in two years.[7]

Kitchenbrand returned to his homeland in 1960 to play for Johannesburg Wanderers,[4] before coming back to Scotland two years later for a brief spell at Forfar Athletic.[8]

Honours

Rangers

References

  1. 1 2 "Don Kitchenbrand: Rangers Secret Catholic" (in Dutch). Doing the 116 Blog. 13 July 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Kitchenbrand, Don". RangersPedia. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Rangers Player Don Kichenbrand, Games Played". Fitbastats.com. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Houghton, Ashley (7 February 2014). "Player of the Day: Don Kitchenbrand". Sunderland Association Football Club. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Don Kichenbrand". Weltfussball.de. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  6. ↑ "Sunderland AFC - Statistics, History and Records - from TheStatCat". Thestatcat.co.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  7. ↑ "Sunderland Teams 1958/59". rokerpark.com. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  8. ↑ "Forfar Athletic Player Donald Kitchenbrand Details". Fitbastats.com. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
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