Geoff Vowden

Geoff Vowden
Personal information
Full name Geoffrey Alan Vowden
Date of birth (1941-04-27) 27 April 1941
Place of birth Barnsley, England
Playing position Forward
Youth career
Jersey D.M.
Nottingham Forest
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1960–1964 Nottingham Forest 90 (40)
1964–1971 Birmingham City 221 (79)
1971–1974 Aston Villa 97 (22)
1974 New York Cosmos 15 (2)
1974–1975 Kettering Town 42 (4)
Teams managed
1974–1975 Kettering Town

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Geoffrey Alan Vowden (born 27 April 1941) is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward in the Football League for Nottingham Forest, Birmingham City and Aston Villa,[1] and in the North American Soccer League for the New York Cosmos.[2]

Career

Vowden was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire and raised in Jersey. When he was 18 he came over to England to join Nottingham Forest, where he signed professional forms at Christmas 1959. After scoring 40 goals in 90 League games for Forest, he was sold to Birmingham City for £25,000 in October 1964.[3]

He spent nearly seven seasons at Birmingham, scoring at a rate of a goal every three games,[3] and finished as their leading goalscorer three seasons running, from 1964–65 to 1966–67.[4] On 7 September 1968, playing for Birmingham against Huddersfield Town in the Second Division, he became the first substitute to score a hat-trick in a Football League game.[5]

In March 1971 Vowden joined Aston Villa for a fee of £12,500. In his first full season at Aston Villa he scored 11 goals which contributed to the club winning the Third Division championship.[3][6]

In the summer of 1974 he played for New York Cosmos in the North American Soccer League.[2] On his return he joined Southern League club Kettering Town as player/manager, succeeding Ron Atkinson, in December 1974.[7] He later coached domestically and in Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia.[3]

Honours

References

  1. "Geoff Vowden". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 "North American Soccer League Players Geoff Vowden". NASL Jerseys. Dave Morrison. Retrieved 19 March 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
  4. Matthews, pp. 200–02.
  5. Thomson, Doug (2 September 2006). "Caught in time 1968". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. Retrieved 2 September 2015 via The Free Library (Farlex).
  6. "Vowden, Geoffrey Alan (Geoff)". Aston Villa Player Database. Jörn Mårtensson. Retrieved 19 March 2010.
  7. "Kettering Town Football Club Managers". poppiesfans.com. Retrieved 19 March 2010.
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