Andy Saville

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Andy Saville
Personal information
Full name Andrew Victor Saville [1]
Date of birth (1964-12-12) 12 December 1964 (age 58) [1]
Place of birth Hull, [1] England
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) [2]
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1979–1983 Hull City
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1983–1989 Hull City 101 (18)
1989–1990 Walsall 38 (5)
1990–1992 Barnsley 82 (21)
1992–1993 Hartlepool United 37 (14)
1993–1995 Birmingham City 59 (17)
1994–1995 → Burnley (loan) 4 (1)
1995–1996 Preston North End 56 (30)
1996–1997 Wigan Athletic 25 (4)
1997–1999 Cardiff City 35 (12)
1998 → Hull City (loan) 3 (0)
1999 Scarborough 9 (0)
1999–2000 Gainsborough Trinity
2000–2001 Goole
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Andrew Victor Saville (born 12 December 1964) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. His professional career lasted sixteen years, spent at a total of ten lower-division clubs in the Football League. [3]

Contents

Career

Saville was born in Hull. He made more than 100 appearances for his home-town club, Hull City, whom he joined from school. [3] [4] He was his club's leading scorer on several occasions, at Hull City in 1986–87, [5] at Birmingham City in 1993–94, [4] and again in 1995–96 for Preston North End, where he scored 30 goals in all competitions, his 29 League goals making him overall top scorer in the Third Division. [6]

In 1992–93 he had the rare distinction of becoming top scorer for two clubs in the same season, scoring 20 goals in all competitions for Hartlepool United [7] before moving to Birmingham in March 1993, where his ten games produced seven goals, a total which no other Birmingham player bettered over the whole season. [8]

Personal life

Saville works as a host for the hospitality boxes at Hull City. [9]

Honours

Preston North End

Wigan Athletic

Individual

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References

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  2. ↑ Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p.  198. ISBN   978-0-356-14354-5.
  3. 1 2 "Andy Saville". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Archived from the original on 2 January 2009. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
  4. 1 2 Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 122. ISBN   978-1-85983-010-9.
  5. ↑ Beill, Andy (5 June 2007). "Season by season top scorers for the club". Hull City Online. FootyMad. Retrieved 27 February 2011.
  6. ↑ Sewell, Albert, ed. (1996). News of the World Football Annual 1996–97. London: Invincible Press. pp. 31, 369. ISBN   978-0-00-218737-4.
  7. ↑ "1992/93 Squad". In The Mad Crowd. John Phillips. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  8. ↑ Matthews, p. 228.
  9. ↑ "What happened next to Hull City's Great Escape squad". 24 March 2019.
  10. ↑ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (1996). The 1996–97 Official PFA Footballers Factfile. Harpenden: Queen Anne Press. p. 285. ISBN   978-1-85291-571-1.
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