Richard Foster

Aberdeen

Foster made his debut for Aberdeen aged 17 on 10 May 2003 in a Scottish Premier League match against Partick Thistle, coming on as a substitute for Darren Mackie. He scored his first goal for the club almost exactly a year later during a 2–1 league defeat to Dundee on 15 May 2004. Foster became a first team regular under Jimmy Calderwood and signed a two-year contract extension on 31 July 2007. Although naturally a right winger, Foster made significant progress playing in the left back position during the 2007–08 season, impressing with his man-marking performances when Aberdeen's first-choice left back Richie Byrne was injured. On 20 September 2007, he made his European debut in the first leg of Aberdeen's UEFA Cup first round tie against Dnipro, coming on as a 72nd-minute substitute for Jackie McNamara as the game ended 0–0. Foster started at left back in the return match in Ukraine on 4 October and provided the assist for Darren Mackie's opening goal, sending in the cross for the striker to head home from close range. Despite Dnipro salvaging a 1–1 draw, Aberdeen progressed to the group stages of the tournament on away goals. On 20 December, Foster scored the first European goal of his career in Aberdeen's 4–0 UEFA Cup group stage win over Copenhagen. The result put the Dons through to the last 32, where they lost 7–3 on aggregate to Bayern Munich (drawing the first leg 2–2 at Pittodrie and losing 5–1 in the second leg at the Allianz Arena). In February…

Foster was selected by the Scotland national under-21 football team. He was selected for the full Scotland squad in February 2012, but he did not play in the friendly with Slovenia. Foster said in November 2018 that he was disappointed that he had not been recalled, given the lack of options in his preferred position.

Foster was born in Elgin, Moray to Martyn and Carol Foster (née Cruickshank). He was a Rangers fan as a boy.

Foster began dating Scottish singer Amy Macdonald in 2015 and the couple were engaged on New Year's Eve that year. They got married in Las Vegas in 2018. Foster did a psychology degree at the Open University and has also written a crime novel.