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Paul Hartley

Full name	Paul James Hartley
Date of birth	October 19 1976 (1976-10-19) (age 31)
Place of birth	Hamilton, Scotland
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Celtic
Number	11
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1994-1996 1996-1997 1997-1998 1998-2000 1999-2000 2000-2003 2003-2007 2007-	Hamilton Academical Millwall Raith Rovers Hibernian → Greenock Morton (loan) St. Johnstone Hearts Celtic	047 (11) 044 0(4) 050 (13) 036 0(6) 003 0(1) 087 (12) 118 (31) 019 0(0)
National team²
2005-	Scotland	017 0(1)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3 December 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 3 December 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Paul James Hartley (born 19 October 1976, in Hamilton) is a Scottish professional footballer, currently playing for Celtic in the Scottish Premier League.

1 Club career
2 International career
3 Honours
4 References
5 External links

Club career

Early career

Hartley started his career at Hamilton Academical in 1994, where he spent two seasons. Millwall paid £400,000 to gain his services in 1996 and he spent one season there, concurrently playing for the Scotland U21 team. He returned to Scotland in 1997, when he joined Raith Rovers for £150,000, before joining Hibernian in 1998, whom he helped win the First Division in 1998-99. In season 1999-2000 he spent a short spell on loan at Greenock Morton.

St. Johnstone

Soon after Hartley joined St. Johnstone, but was unable to stop them being relegated from the Premier League. During his time at St. Johnstone, Billy Stark started using Hartley as a central attacking midfielder. Hartley had previously played mostly as a right winger. This change of position coincided with a significant upturn in Hartley's performances.

Hearts

Hearts manager Craig Levein had noticed this improvement and signed him on a free transfer when his contract in Perth expired in 2003. Revelling in his new role, Hartley continued to improve at Tynecastle, helping Hearts to third place in the Premier League in 2003-04 and starring in their subsequent UEFA Cup run. In January 2005, Celtic attempted to buy Hartley. Their £300,000 offer was considered significantly below Hearts valuation and was rejected. Hartley subsequently signed an improved contract with Hearts. One of Hartley's most memorable performances was his three goals against Hearts' arch rivals Hibernian in the Scottish Cup semi-final in 2006, his first hat-trick as a professional footballer. Despite his sending off in the final, Hearts defeated Second Division outfit Gretna on penalties. During the January 2007 transfer window Hartley was linked with a move to Rangers^[1] and with a move to English Premiership side Aston Villa, now managed by Martin O'Neill, who was behind the unsuccessful Celtic bid in 2005. Hearts manger Valdas Ivanauskas responded to the speculation by insisting any transfer bids would not be appreciated. On January 26, Hearts and Ivanauskas admitted that they had now come to the decision to sell their prize assets and both Hartley and Craig Gordon were both dropped for that weekend's match against Rangers.

Celtic

Hartley refused an offer from Rangers and signed instead for their Old Firm rivals and his boyhood heroes Celtic for £1.1 million on a two-and-a-half-year contract, with the option for a further year.^[2] On August 15 2007, he scored his first goal for the Hoops in the first leg of their Champions League 3rd qualifying round tie against Russian side Spartak Moscow.

International career

Hartley's performances for Hearts earned him international recognition in March 2005, when he won his first Scotland cap against Italy. He has to date earned a total of 17 caps, scoring his only international goal to date in a 3-0 win over Slovenia in October 2005.