Zander Murray

Professional Footballer Zander Murray plays for Bonyrigg Rose, a club in the Scottish Professional Football. The striker has scored 100 plus goals and holds the club record for number of goals scored in one season. Zander’s football career began playing at Motherwell FC and Airdrie FC Academy. 

In September 2022, Zander became the first Scottish professional footballer to come out as gay and the third actively playing footballer to come out in the world. Since coming out Zander has shared his story on many TV shows including Lorraine and Good Morning Britain on ITV1, and Sky Sports as well many BBC shows.

Zander is also a proud ambassador for LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall, and he regularly works with ‘Time for Inclusive Education,’ a Scottish LGBT inclusive education charity. Zander is a motivational speaker, and he attends workshops in schools, football academies and corporate organisations including TESCO, Babcock, Barclays, Aviva and the Hong Kong Gay Games to share his story and promote positive movement in the LGBTQIA+ community.  

Zander has won several awards since coming out, including the Unicorn of The Year award from charity ‘Somewhere: For Us’ and a Proud Scotland Award in the Sport & Recreation category. In 2023 he was named by Attitude Magazine as one of the LGBTQ trailblazers changing the world, and his football shirt that he scored his 100th goal wearing was placed in the Scottish Football Museum. 

Also this year Zander’s documentary with the BBC launched entitled “Out On The Pitch” where he spoke about his own coming out story. He also interviewed many contributors to look at what is being done to tackle homophobia in Football.

You can follow Zander on social media here.