Our brand new Dave Hargreaves memorial shield has arrived and will be awarded to Accrington Stanley’s top league goalscorer every season.
It’s been back dated to the 2017/8 promotion season, which seemed a logical starting point, when the winner was Billy Kee; and all the relevant shields have been inscribed with the top scorer each season, league goals only.
Dave ‘Haggis’ Hargreaves (1954-2018) began his career with Stanley in 1974, and scored 56 goals in 44 appearances in the 1975–76 season. He signed for Blackburn Rovers in December 1977, but only made two League appearances owing to injuries. He returned to Accrington, until 1985, during which time he scored a total of 309 goals in 322 games, a club record.