Jack Hendry, born in Glasgow on 7 May 1995 (age 31), is a Scotland central defender with an imposing 6ft 4in (1.94m) frame. He came through the Scottish game and earned his move to Celtic from Dundee in January 2018, with the fee around £1.5m.
His Celtic spell never quite settled into the shape expected of a defender bought from within the league. By July 2021 he had left for Oostende, again for around £1.5m, a neat piece of accounting if not exactly a great Celtic tale.
Oostende was where Hendry put together his most productive league season, scoring two goals in 27 appearances in 2020-21. His years after Celtic also took in Club Brugge and Al-Ettifaq, with the Belgian spell helping to give his career a firmer platform after a stop-start period in Glasgow.
Now with Al-Ettifaq, where he wears the No 4 shirt, Hendry has made four league appearances and scored one league goal in 2026-27. He has also played for Scotland this season, with three World Cup appearances and one in European World Cup qualifying.
Hendry’s career has moved from Dundee to Celtic, then through Belgium and on to Saudi Arabia, with Scotland caps running alongside it. It is a solid professional path, built less on fuss than on persistence.
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