Steve Vickers (footballer)

Last updated

Steve Vickers
Personal information
Full name Stephen Vickers [1]
Date of birth (1967-10-13) 13 October 1967 (age 57) [1]
Place of birth Bishop Auckland, [1] England
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) [2]
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1984–1985 Spennymoor United
1985–1993 Tranmere Rovers 311 (11)
1993–2001 Middlesbrough 258 (8)
2001 → Crystal Palace (loan) 6 (0)
2001 → Birmingham City (loan) 5 (0)
2001–2003 Birmingham City 14 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Stephen Vickers (born 13 October 1967) is an English former association footballer who played as a central defender. He made nearly 600 appearances in the Football League and the Premier League, the majority of which were for Tranmere Rovers and Middlesbrough. While with Middlesbrough he played in the 1997 FA Cup Final.

Contents

Life and career

Vickers was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, and played football for local non-League club Spennymoor United. He began his professional career at Tranmere Rovers, where he forged a reputation as one of the classiest[ citation needed ] defenders in England's lower leagues. At Tranmere he was part of the side that won the 1989-90 Football League Trophy. [3] He subsequently played in the Premier League with Middlesbrough, whom he joined in 1993, winning the club's Player of the Year Award for the 1993–94 season. He was loaned to Crystal Palace in 2001, then to Birmingham City later that year. Whilst at Middlesbrough he played in the 1997 FA Cup Final.

This deal was then made permanent for £400,000, and Vickers helped Birmingham gain promotion to the Premier League in the 2001–02 season. He scored his only goal for the club that season, against Stockport County. [2] [4] Vickers retired from playing at the end of an injury-plagued 2002–03 season, which included a knee operation before the start of the season, a broken rib in his first game back, [5] a badly-gashed ankle following a two-footed challenge from Everton's Wayne Rooney which resulted in Rooney's first senior red card, [6] and a succession of minor problems. [7]

After his retirement from playing, he went into property development in his native north-east of England. [8] In 2010, he was employed as head of youth recruitment for the sports management division of a north-east-based law firm. [9]

Honours

Middlesbrough

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tranmere Rovers F.C.</span> Association football club based in Birkenhead, England

Tranmere Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. The team competes in EFL League Two, the fourth level of the English football league system.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James Beattie (footballer)</span> English association football player and manager (born 1978)

James Scott Beattie is an English football coach and a former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is currently director of football at Southern League Premier Division South club AFC Totton.

David Watson is an English football manager and former professional player.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James Vaughan (footballer, born 1988)</span> English footballer

James Oliver Vaughan is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is currently the loans pathway manager at Everton.

Kevin Richardson is an English former footballer who made more than 500 appearances in the Football League and Premier League, playing for Everton, Watford, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Coventry City, Southampton, Barnsley and Blackpool, and also spent a season in La Liga with Real Sociedad. He was capped once for England.

John Allen King was an English football player and manager. He is widely regarded as being the most successful manager in the history of Tranmere Rovers and had a stand at Prenton Park named in his honour in 2002. In November 2014, a statue of King was unveiled outside the ground.

Paul Rideout is an English former professional footballer and youth team coach of Major League Soccer side Sporting Kansas City.

Anthony James Grant is an English football coach and former player, he is the assistant head coach of EFL League One club Forest Green Rovers.

Tranmere Rovers Ladies Football Club are an English team founded in 1990, based in the Wirral, and affiliated with Tranmere Rovers F.C. Between 1996 and 2004 they competed in the FA Premier League National Division, then the top tier of the English women's football pyramid. They are currently members of the North West Women's Regional Football League Premier and play their home games at the Ellesmere Port Sports Village.

Alan John Miller was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

During the 2001–02 season, Middlesbrough participated in the FA Premier League.

Stuart Barlow is an English football coach and former professional player.

John Keith Ebbrell is an English football coach and former professional footballer who was most recently Assistant Manager at Oldham Athletic F.C.

The 2000–01 FA Cup was the 120th season of the world's oldest knockout football competition, the FA Cup. The competition was won by Liverpool, who came from 1–0 behind against Arsenal to eventually win 2–1 in the final. The final was played outside England for the first time, at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, because Wembley Stadium was being knocked down to be replaced with a new stadium.

The 1980–81 season was the 82nd completed season of The Football League. This was the final league season with two points for win.

James Robert Wallace is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder. He is the current chief scout at Preston North End. He started his career at Everton's youth academy aged 13, and progressed through the club's youth system before playing regularly for the reserve side. Following a string of loans to Bury, Stockport County, Shrewsbury Town, Stevenage and Tranmere Rovers, he eventually left Everton without playing a league game, joining Tranmere on a permanent basis in 2012 and then Sheffield United in 2014. Born in Liverpool, Wallace has represented England at under-19 and under-20 level, despite having represented the Republic of Ireland at under-16 level.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ben Gibson</span> English association football player

Benjamin James Gibson is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for and captains EFL Championship club Stoke City.

The 2004–05 FA Women's Premier League Cup was the 14th edition of the FA Women's Premier League's league cup competition, which began in 1991. It was sponsored by Nationwide and was officially known as the FA Nationwide Women's Premier League Cup. The competition was contested by all 34 teams of the three divisions of the FA Women's Premier League. Arsenal won their eight title after a 3–0 win over Charlton Athletic in the final.

The 2005–06 FA Women's Premier League Cup was the 15th edition of the FA Women's Premier League's league cup competition, which began in 1991. It was sponsored by Nationwide and was officially known as the FA Nationwide Women's Premier League Cup. The competition was contested by all 34 teams of the three divisions of the FA Women's Premier League. Charlton Athletic won their second title after a 2–1 win over Arsenal in the final.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Steve Vickers". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Games played by Steve Vickers in 2001/2002". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "BRISTOL ROVERS 1 V TRANMERE ROVERS 2". trscireland.info. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  4. ↑ "Stockport 0–3 Birmingham". BBC Sport. 29 December 2001. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
  5. ↑ Hill, Graham (19 January 2003). "Vickers' time is running out". Sunday Mercury. Birmingham. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  6. ↑ Culley, Jon (27 December 2002). "Rooney finds out the hard way for Everton". The Independent. London. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  7. ↑ Clarkson, Ian (8 February 2004). "A blast from the past". Sunday Mercury. Birmingham. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
  8. ↑ Tallentire, Philip (24 August 2005). "Where are they now? 10 years at the Riverside". Evening Gazette. Middlesbrough. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011.
  9. ↑ "Meet The Team". BHP Sport. Archived from the original on 4 August 2010.
  10. ↑ Moore, Glenn (16 April 1997). "Claridge's five-star silver service". The Independent. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
  11. ↑ "Chelsea v Middlesbrough, 29 March 1998 - 11v11 match report". 11v11. AFS Enterprises. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.