Aaron Buchanan Hickey (born 10 June 2002) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a full-back for Premier League club Brentford and the Scotland national team.
[3] After spending time in the youth system at Heart of Midlothian, Hickey had a spell with the academy teams at Celtic.
[17] Towards the end of the month the BBC reported that Bologna had made the first official bid for Hickey,[18] although Hearts said that the offer was too low.
[5] Due to the suspension of regular left-back Mitchell Dijks,[24] Hickey made his first Serie A appearance on 28 September in a 4–1 win against Parma.
[25] This made Hickey the fifth Scot to play in men's Serie A after Denis Law, Joe Jordan, Graeme Souness and Liam Henderson.
[26] Hickey's first season at Bologna was cut short by shoulder surgery in March 2021, restricting him to 12 appearances, even though he clocked up the fourth-highest minutes total of any under-21 player across the top five European leagues.
[32] On 24 April 2022, Hickey became the first Scot to score 5 goals in a single Serie A season since Graeme Souness in 1984–85 for Sampdoria.
[34] On 9 July 2022, Brentford announced that they had signed Hickey on a four-year contract, subject to international clearance.
[35][36] Hickey regularly played on the right side of defence for Brentford during the 2022–23 season, although he missed a few months due to suffering an ankle ligament injury in October.
Former Hearts manager Craig Levein described Hickey by saying that "he's got really good defensive qualities but I don't know if he'll end up being a full-back, he might end up going back into midfield [...] he could be a fantastic holding midfielder with his great awareness of danger and his ability to get out of tight situations with the ball at his feet".