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Calum Ferguson

Scottish-Canadian soccer player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ19585623
Source-derived summary

Calum Ferguson (born 12 February 1995) is a Scottish football player who last played as a forward for Highland Football League club Clachnacuddin. Born in Scotland, he has represented Canada at youth international level.

Club career

Inverness Caledonian Thistle

After progressing through the youth ranks at Inverness, Ferguson made the game-day squad for the first time with the Caley Jags against his former club Ross County on 19 May 2013. Ferguson was loaned to Montrose in early 2014. He played four games before his loan ended. He would again make the game-day squad with Inverness against Partick Thistle on 7 February 2015 in the Scottish Cup. Ferguson finally made his debut for Inverness against Kilmarnock on 21 February as a substitute in a 3–3 draw.

Albion Rovers

After leaving Inverness at the end of the 2015–16 season, Ferguson signed for Scottish League One side Albion Rovers in July 2016, after impressing as a trialist in a pre-season friendly against Motherwell. Ferguson hit the headlines with Albion Rovers when he scored a dramatic last minute winner in the Scottish Cup against Queen of the South to send his side through to play Celtic.

Elgin City

In summer 2017, Ferguson signed with Scottish League Two side Elgin City.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Calum Ferguson” as scottish-Canadian soccer player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Calum, Ferguson and Scottish-Canadian.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2013, 2014, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-02-12. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Calum, Ferguson and Scottish-Canadian providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q19585623. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from Calum Ferguson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.