# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willie-groves
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:28:44.918Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willie-groves"
name: "Willie Groves"
slug: "willie-groves"
description: "Patrick William Groves was a Scottish footballer who played as a forward for Hibernian, Celtic, West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa and Scotland. He is known for being the first player to be transferred for more than £100, or roughly half the average price of a house at the time, becoming the first official record holder for the most expensive transfer ever. The record-setting transfer was from West Bromwich Albion F.C. to Aston Villa F.C. in 1893 for exactly £100. Three years later, in 1896, Groves' record was broken when Fred Wheldon was transferred to Aston Villa F.C. from Small Heath Alliance for between £350 and £500."
tagline: "Scottish footballer (1868–1908)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1869-11-09"
deathDate: "1908-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.79
  momentum:             14.71927935269806
  historical:           7.915302666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%96_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B7"
    title: "Віллі Гровз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B2"
    title: "فيلي غروفز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B2"
    title: "فيلى جروفز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Groves"
    title: "Willie Groves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Groves"
    title: "Willie Groves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Groves"
    title: "Willie Groves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Groves"
    title: "Willie Groves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B7%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Гроувз, Уилли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B5_%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%8C"
    title: "วิลลี โกรฟส์"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4150433"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump