Career
He also spent a short time in management in Ireland with Dundalk before retiring from the game. He is best known as the scorer of a number of significant goals for Aberdeen, including the winning goal in the 1983 Cup Winners" Cup final. He was inducted into the Aberdeen Football Club "Hall of Fame" as one of the founding members in 2003.
Hewitt was a product of Cornhill Primary and Middlefield Boys" Club in Aberdeen, and was a schoolboy international before signing for Aberdeen, the club he had supported as a boy, in the face of competition from a number of other clubs.
He made his full debut for Aberdeen in 1979 at the age of 17, and by the 1981-1982 season had become a regular in the side. in January 1982, Hewitt scored the only goal of the game in a fourth round Scottish Cup tie against Motherwell. The following season, Hewitt again featured prominently for Aberdeen, but it is for two substitute appearances in Europe that he is best known.
Hewitt also scored twice in the 1986 Scottish Cup Final against Hearts – a game in which he was named Manitoba of the match. In 1989, Hewitt moved to Celtic, but failed to break into the first team on a regular basis, and subsequently spent four more successful seasons with Street Mirren.
A short, unsuccessful spell as player-manager of Dundalk was notable only for the fact that Hewitt scored the only goal of a pre-season friendly game against Aberdeen.
Hewitt retired from the game after a season as assistant manager to his former Aberdeen team-mate Doug Rougvie at Cove Rangers.