Craig Halkett

Craig Halkett (born 29 May 1995) is a Scottish footballer who plays as defender for Scottish Premiership club Heart of Midlothian.

Club Career

Raised in Kirkintilloch and a boyhood Rangers fan, Halkett joined the club as a youngster, initially playing as a striker. After winning the Scottish Youth Cup in 2014, he was loaned out twice, to Clyde and Berwick Rangers, both playing in the fourth tier.

In January 2016, Halkett was informed by Rangers that there was no immediate prospect of him progressing to the first team and he left the Ibrox club without having made a senior appearance, joining then Scottish Championship side Livingston. He scored his first professional goal against Rangers in a 1–0 win for Livingston on 26 April 2016.

The Lions were relegated from the Championship at the end of his first campaign in a play-off, but Halkett became an increasingly important player for the West Lothian side, helping them to immediately return from League One in 2016–17, followed by a second consecutive promotion to the Scottish Premiership after finishing runners-up in the regular season, once more via the play-offs.

Halkett signed a pre-contract agreement with Hearts in April 2019. In October 2019 it was announced he would be out for 10 weeks due to a knee injury.

This page also has a version in other languages :  Крэйг Холкетт (russian)