Geoff Vowden

Football player infobox
playername = Geoff Vowden


fullname = Geoffrey Alan Vowden
height =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1941|4|27
cityofbirth = Barnsley
countryofbirth = England
currentclub =
position = Striker
youthyears =
1958–1960
youthclubs = Jersey DM
Nottingham Forest
years = 1960–1964
1964–1971
1971–1974
1974
1974–1975
clubs = Nottingham Forest
Birmingham City
Aston Villa
New York Cosmos
Kettering Town
caps(goals) = 090 0(40)
221 0(79)
097 0(22)
015 00(2)
0?? 00(?)
manageryears = 1974–1975
managerclubs = Kettering Town

Geoffrey Alan 'Geoff' Vowden is a former English professional footballer who played as a striker.

Vowden was born on April 4, 1941 in Barnsley, Yorkshire and raised in Jersey. When he was 17 he came over to England to join Nottingham Forest, where he signed professional forms two years later. After scoring 40 goals in 90 games for Forest, he was sold to Birmingham City for £25,000.

He spent seven seasons at Birmingham, scoring at a rate of a goal every three games, and finished as their leading goalscorer three seasons running, from 1964–65 to 1966–67. On September 7, 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. [cite news
author=Thomson, Doug | title=Caught in time 1968 | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-150841368.html | format=reprint via www.highbeam.com | publisher=Huddersfield Daily Examiner | date=September 2, 2006 | accessdate=2007-08-03 ]

In March 1971 Vowden joined Aston Villa for a fee of £12,500. [cite web
url=http://web.telia.com/~u27301997/1376.html | title=Aston Villa Player Database | accessdate=2007-08-03 ] In his first full season at Aston Villa he scored 11 goals which contributed to the club winning the Third Division championship.

In the summer of 1974 he played for New York Cosmos in the NASL. [cite web
url=http://www.nycosmos.com/cosmos/alltimeroster.html | title=All-Time Player Roster | accessdate=2007-08-03 | publisher=New York Cosmos Sports Club ] On his return he joined Kettering Town as player/assistant manager under Ron Atkinson, whom he succeeded as manager in December 1974. [cite web
url=http://www.poppiesfans.com/ktfc-history/ktfc-managers.php | title=Kettering Town Football Club Managers | accessdate=2007-08-03 | publisher=PoppiesFans.com (a Kettering Town supporters site) ] He later coached domestically and in Saudi Arabia.

Honours

*With Aston Villa
**Third Division champions 1972.

References

cite book
author=Matthews, Tony | title=Birmingham City: A Complete Record | year=1995 | publisher=Breedon Books | isbn=1-85983-010-2

Notes

Persondata
NAME = Vowden, Geoffrey Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH = 1941-04-27
PLACE OF BIRTH = Barnsley, Yorkshire, England
DATE OF DEATH =
PLACE OF DEATH =