{{short description|Scottish footballer (1958–2022)}} {{For|other people named Dave or David Shearer|David Shearer (disambiguation)}} {{Use Scottish English|date=July 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Dave Shearer | image = | caption = | fullname = David John Shearer<ref name=Hugman>{{Hugman|17833|name=David Shearer|accessdate=16 April 2020}}</ref> | height = {{height|ft=5|in=8}}<ref>{{cite book |title=Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88 |editor-first=Peter |editor-last=Dunk |publisher=Queen Anne Press |location=London |date=1987 |page=[https://archive.org/details/rothmansfootball00lond/page/174 174] |isbn=978-0-356-14354-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/rothmansfootball00lond/page/174}}</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1958|10|16}}<ref name=Hugman/> | birth_place = Inverness,<ref name=Hugman/> Scotland |death_date = {{death date and age|2022|7|03|1958|10|16|df=y}} | position = Striker | years1 = 19??–1978 | clubs1 = Clachnacuddin | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1978–1983 | clubs2 = Middlesbrough | caps2 = 97 | goals2 = 32 | years3 = 1980 | clubs3 = → Wigan Athletic (loan) | caps3 = 11 | goals3 = 9 | years4 = 1983–1984 | clubs4 = Grimsby Town | caps4 = 4 | goals4 = 0 | years5 = 1984–1987 | clubs5 = Gillingham | caps5 = 93 | goals5 = 42 | years6 = 1987–1988 | clubs6 = AFC Bournemouth | caps6 = 11 | goals6 = 3 | years7 = 1988 | clubs7 = Scunthorpe United | caps7 = 16 | goals7 = 7 | years8 = 1988–19?? | clubs8 = Darlington | caps8 = 7 | goals8 = 0 | years9 = 1989–1993| clubs9 = Billingham Synthonia | caps9 = 78 | goals9 = 30 <!--STATS ACCOUNT FOR LEAGUE ONLY--> }} '''David John Shearer''' (16 October 1958 – 3 July 2022)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/sport/former-gillingham-great-dies-aged-63-269748/|title=Former Gillingham striker Dave Shearer dies at the age of 63|website=/www.kentonline.co.uk|date=5 July 2022 }}</ref> was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a forward.
Although he had trials with Greenock Morton as a teenager, Shearer continued to play locally in his home Fort William area in the Scottish North West Highlands, before signing as a part time professional with senior Inverness-based football club Clachnacuddin in the Highland Football League. His other professional clubs, all in the English Football League, included Middlesbrough, Scunthorpe United and Gillingham.<ref>{{cite book | first=Roger|last= Triggs | title=The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club| publisher=Tempus Publishing Ltd | year=2001| isbn=0-7524-2243-X|pages=289–290}}</ref>
He made over 230 Football League appearances. He was the older brother of fellow former professional and Highland Football League player Duncan Shearer.
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