Thousand Matches - Charles Shaw - Additional Data


Charles Shaw was the second ever football player (after William Meredith) to have played one thousand official matches.
All teams (Official Only)	
						      matches/clean sheets

Rob Roy Kirkintilloch 		1900-1905		46	12
Kirkintilloch Rangers		1901	
Kirkintilloch United		1902-1905		11	2
Baillieston Thistle		1905-1906		27	6
Kirkintilloch Harp		1906			3	1
Port Glasgow Athletic		1906-1907		47	10
Queens Park Rangers, London	1907-1913		308	112
Celtic				1913-1925		512	260
Clyde				1925			12	3
New Bedford Whalers		1925-1926		29	9

Selection teams:				
Southern League XI		1911-1913		4	1
Scottish League XI		1914-1920		3	0
FA London XI			1912			1	0
International Trial match	1914			1	0
Scottish Players Union		1914			1	0
West of Scotland		1914-1916		2	0
Glasgow XI			1922			1	0
Kirkintilloch Juvenil League 	1903			1	1
Dumbartonshire Select		1905			2	0

Total							1011	417

Data by Tournament (Official Only)

Domestic Campionships				
  among which:				
Glasgow District Junior League		1900-1903		7	1
Midland Junior League			1900-1901		5	0
Scottish Junior League			1900-1902		7	2
Kirkintilloch Juvenil League		1901-1904		*	
Glasgow Junior League, 2nd Div.		1904-1905		13	4
Kirkintilloch District League		1904-1906		14	3
Glasgow League				1905-1906		13	4
Scottish League				1906-1925		459	230
Glasgow & West of Scotland League	1906			3	0
Southern League				1907-1913		233	93
Western League				1907-1909		24	5
Scottish League, 2nd Division		1925			12	3
American Soccer League			1925-1926		27	8

Domestic Cups				
Scottish Cup				1906-1924		26	14
FA Cup					1907-1913		16	7
FA Charity Shield			1908-1912		3	0
US Open Cup				1926			2	1

Other Cups				
Dumbartonshire Junior Cup		1900-1905		8	3
Scottish Junior Cup			1900-1906		14	4
Lanarkshire Junior Cup			1905-1906		6	
Scottish Juvenile Cup			1902-1904		*	
County Juvenile Cup			1902-1904		*	
Renfrewshire Cup			1906			1	0
Glasgow & West of Scotland Shield	1907			2	2
Southern Professional Charity Cup	1907-1913		18	4
London Challenge Cup			1908-1912		9	2
London Professional Charity Fund	1909-1912		5	1
Glasgow Cup				1913-1924		25	8
Glasgow Charity Cup			1913-1924		23	12
Navy and Army War Fund Shield		1914			3	0
Scottish League War Fund Shield		1918			3	2
Victory Cup				1919			3	1
Lord Provost's Rent Relief Cup		1921			2	0
Budapest Cup				1914			2	0

other matches				1915-1923		7	1

* don't included in total statistics

Notes

Shaw was first mentioned in a match between Rob Roy and Harp on May 26, 1900, when 
Charlie was not yet 15 years old! “The game started pretty fast, the Harp having 
the best of the opening exchanges, and were pressing the Rob's very hard, but the 
play of Shaw in goal for the Rob's was magnificent, his fisting of the ball being
a treat.” (Kirkintilloch Gazette, 30 May 1900).

Shaw played the entire 1900-01 season for Rob Roy. However, Shaw played for Kirkintilloch 
United in youth tournaments for the next three years. Sometimes he was called to Rob Roy.
In 1904-05 Shaw returned to Rob Roy, but played again for Kirkintilloch United in April 
and May.
A move to Baillieston Thistle in the summer of 1905 was the next step in Shaw's career. 
In April 1906, the Scottish League club Port Glasgow Athletic invited Charlie Shaw due 
to a goalkeeper injury. After this transition, Shaw's career took off.
In 1907 Shaw moved to London and played in the Southern League for 6 years. This league 
united the best clubs in London and the south of the country and in those years competed 
with the English league. The champions of both leagues played for FA Charity Shield. In 
inter-league tournaments, the Southern League team was ahead of the English League team 
in 1910 (1st place), 1912 and 1913 (2nd place after the Scottish League). In the last
tournament (1912-13) Shaw played all 3 matches. After the end of this season he moved 
to Celtic.

For 18 years (1906-1924) Shaw played for clubs with virtually no replacements, missing 
only 18 games.

Oddly enough, Shaw never played for the national team. The Celtic team was jokingly 
called "10 Internationalists and Shaw".

Charlie Shaw holds several records for the most clean sheets. He recorded 323 clean 
sheets in Scottish and Southern League matches. The most successful one was the first 
season as part of Celtic - 26 clean sheets in 38 games, which is still one of the highest 
results in the leading championships. In 1979, Roy Clemence surpassed this mark (28), 
but did so in 42 matches.

Given that the Southern League was one of the top three leagues in the world until 1914, 
it can be argued that Charlie Shaw holds the world record for most league clean sheets 
- 331 (including ASL), ahead of Buffon (305), Clemence and Al Hadary (300 each) and all 
other goalkeepers.

Charlie Shaw has a number of other achievements at the national and worldwide level.

1) 1287 minutes without conceding a goal (1913-14)
2) one conceding goal in 23 consecutive games (11.10.1913 - 21.02.1914)
3) highest percentage of clean sheets in the Scottish League (230/459)

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