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ZAK RUDDEN
Born: 06 February 2000
Came from: Rangers Went to:
First game: 24 August 2019 Last game: 01 January 2020
Appearances: 18 (9/9) Goals: 3
Rudden, a highly rated 19-year-old striker, signed towards the end of August 2019 on a half-season loan from Rangers, the move no doubt facilitated by manager Ryan Lowe's Merseyside links with Steve Gerrard at Ibrox.
Rudden had yet to make his debut for Rangers but his development there included caps for Scotland at under-16, 17 and 19 levels (and he later played for Scotland's under-21s). He enjoyed a successful 2018-19 season on loan at Falkirk, scoring 12 goals in 31 appearances in the Scottish Championship. This wasn't enough to prevent their last-day relegation but did result in him scooping four Player of the Season awards.
The tall, powerful target man missed much of the 2019 pre-season because of a knee injury, which flared up again to disrupt his time in green, but he nevertheless managed nine starts and an equal number of appearances from the bench in just over four months at Home Park. He returned to Scotland in January 2020 and then joined another Glasgow Club, Partick Thistle, on a permanent deal.
After multiple injury problems and the COVID-19 football shutdown, Rudden scored his first Thistle goal in March 2021, in a 3–0 home win over Cowdenbeath in the Scottish Cup. He played 47 times and scored 16 goals in his two seasons with Partick, but in January 2022, with the end of his contract looming, he joined Dundee on loan and signed a pre-contract agreement to join the club at the end of that season.
In January 2023, six months into his three-year deal at Dundee, Rudden joined St Johnstone on loan until the end of the season.
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APPEARANCE DETAILS [reselect competitions]
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