Simon Ferry

Celtic

Born in Dundee, Scotland, Ferry grew up in Menzieshill and first began his football career when he joined Dundee as a schoolboy. Ferry said that he "was hopeless at school" and "football was only ever going for him". Ferry joined Celtic when he was eleven and progressed through the club’s youth teams despite facing injury setbacks. While progressing the youth system, Ferry showed his potential at Celtic and was dubbed Neil Lennon’s clone. In January 2006, he signed a four-and-a-half-year professional contract with the club. He was part of the team that won the Under-19 League and Cup double in 2006 and was among a number of players named, by coach Willie McStay, as likely to progress to the first team. In Celtic’s pre–season tour of 2006, Ferry made his first-team debut on a pre-season tour of Poland, playing against Legia Warsaw and Wisła Kraków. However, he was curtailed by injury problems sustained in the 2006–07 season, affecting his professional development and resulted in him missing almost three years of club football. Ferry later told BBC Wiltshire that he feared the ongoing ankle injury would end his career. Ferry returned to the Celtic first-team squad in February 2009, having caught Gordon Strachan’s eye while training with the first team, alongside Ryan Conroy. He appeared four times in the club’s first-team squad as an unused substitute for the rest of the 2008–09 season. While playing for Celtic’s reserve squad, Ferry scored a volley in a 1–0 win…

In October 2004, Ferry was called up to the Scotland U17’s squad for the first time. Ferry played for the Scotland U19 squad and scored four times in the UEFA European Under-19 Championship’s qualifiers that saw the U19 side qualify for the tournament in Poland. He was then called up to the UEFA European Under-19 Championship squad. Ferry started all five matches in the tournament, as Scotland U19 went on to reach the UEFA European Under-19 Championship final. The Scottish team reached the final, in which he played, but they lost to Spain. Ferry went on to make nine appearances for Scotland U19. In January 2007, Ferry was called up to the Scotland U21 for the first time. Due to injury, he missed the FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Canada. Two years later, Ferry was called up to the Scotland U21 but he did not play. Ferry acknowledged that he won’t get a call–up from the senior squad.

As of match played 30 April 2022

During his time at Swindon Town, both Ferry and teammate Paul Caddis took part in men’s charity Movember for the Tommy Burns's Skin Cancer Trust. He considered Burns as a hero of his "who wanted him to be a better person as much as a better footballer". Ferry is married and has two sons. In June 2025, Ferry announced that he would be opening a New York-style Italian restaurant called Grosso Glasgow in Glasgow, which he stated was inspired by a Swindon institution. Three months later, it was officially opened.