Don Kitchenbrand

Donald Basil Kitchenbrand (also Kichenbrand; 13 August 1933 – March 2025) was a South African football player who played in Britain for Rangers and Sunderland in the mid to late 1950s.

Career Nicknamed The Rhino by the club's fans, In his first season in British football (1955–56), he scored 24 goals in 25 league appearances to help Rangers win the Scottish League title. That goal tally included the only goal in a 1–0 win over Old Firm rivals Celtic on 2 January 1956, and a five-goal haul in an 8–0 rout of Queen of the South at Ibrox on 7 March 1956. Kitchenbrand did not feature much for Rangers after that first season, and left for Sunderland in March 1958. In November 1958 he scored a hat-trick in a 4–0 win over Rotherham, the first hat-trick a Sunderland player had achieved in two years.

He returned to his homeland in 1960 to play for Johannesburg Wanderers before coming back to Scotland two years later for a brief spell at Forfar Athletic.

Kitchenbrand played once for his country in March 1956, featuring in a South Africa representative side all consisting of British-based players and including Kitchenbrand's Rangers team-mate Johnny Hubbard. They played against a Scotland XI at Ibrox, losing 2–1.

Personal life and death As of 2019, Kitchenbrand and his wife were living in an elderly persons' complex in Benoni, Gauteng. On 16 March 2025, it was announced that Kitchenbrand had died at the age of 91.

Honours Rangers Scottish League: 1955–56