| Martin Moran | |
| Height: | 5ft 5in[1] |
| Position: | Outside right |
| Birth Date: | 19 December 1879 |
| Birth Place: | Bannockburn, Scotland |
| Death Date: | 1948 |
| Years1: | – |
| Clubs1: | Benburb |
| Years2: | 1898 |
| Clubs2: | Celtic |
| Caps2: | 1 |
| Goals2: | 0 |
| Years3: | 1898–1899 |
| Clubs3: | Clyde |
| Caps3: | 10 |
| Goals3: | 1 |
| Years4: | 1899–1900 |
| Clubs4: | Sheffield United |
| Caps4: | 7 |
| Goals4: | 0 |
| Years5: | 1900–1902 |
| Clubs5: | Middlesbrough |
| Caps5: | 36 |
| Goals5: | 5 |
| Years6: | 1902–1904 |
| Clubs6: | Millwall Athletic |
| Caps6: | 86 |
| Goals6: | 13 |
| Years7: | 1904–1905 |
| Clubs7: | Heart of Midlothian |
| Caps7: | 24 |
| Goals7: | 1 |
| Years8: | 1905–1908 |
| Clubs8: | Chelsea |
| Caps8: | 63 |
| Goals8: | 6 |
| Years9: | 1908–1909 |
| Clubs9: | Celtic |
| Caps9: | 2 |
| Goals9: | 0 |
| Years10: | 1909–1910 |
| Clubs10: | Hamilton Academical |
| Caps10: | 20 |
| Goals10: | 1 |
| Years11: | 1910–1911 |
| Clubs11: | Albion Rovers |
| Caps11: | 3 |
| Goals11: | 0 |
| Totalcaps: | 252 |
| Totalgoals: | 27 |
Martin Moran (19 December 1879 – 1948) was a Scottish footballer who played mainly as an outside right.[2] [3] His many clubs included Celtic (two spells),[4] Clyde, Heart of Midlothian,[5] Hamilton Academical[1] and Albion Rovers in Scotland, and Sheffield United, Middlesbrough,[6] Millwall Athletic and Chelsea in England.[7] Small and slight in stature, he was known as "Mighty Midget".
His first spell at Celtic in 1898, aged 20, included appearances in a two-legged friendly billed as the informal 'Championship for Great Britain' against Sheffield United (although the first match took place before either club was officially champion of their nation),[8] before being moved on in October of that year long with several other fringe players in a cost-cutting measure.[9] After a good season with Clyde he moved to England with Sheffield United, where he was a back-up squad member as the Blades were runners-up in the 1899–1900 Football League, then played a minor role in Middlesbrough's promotion from the second tier in 1901–02. From 1902 to 1904 he appeared in 99 competitive matches (17 goals) for Millwall Athletic,[10] reached the FA Cup semi-final in 1902–03 and won the London League and the Southern Professional Charity Cup in 1903–04.[11] In his season with Hearts back in Scotland he won the minor Rosebery Charity Cup,[5] and was involved in another English promotion with Chelsea in 1906–07, having been in their first-ever team the previous year. On returning to Celtic in 1908, a decade after his previous time in Glasgow (this time in the role of an experienced reserve), he was a Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup winner.[9]
Moran played in the Home Scots v Anglo-Scots international trial match of 1905 while contracted to Hearts,[2] [12] but received no further representative honours.