Roger Hunt - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Full name | Roger Hunt | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 20 July 1938 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Glazebury, Lancashire,[1] England | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 27 September 2021 | (aged 83)||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1958–1969 | Liverpool | 404 | (245) | ||||||||||||||
1969–1972 | Bolton Wanderers | 76 | (24) | ||||||||||||||
1971 | → Hellenic (loan) | 6 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
Total | 486 | (273) | |||||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||||
1962–1969 | England | 34 | (18) | ||||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Roger Hunt, MBE (20 July 1938 – 27 September 2021) was an English footballer. He played as a forward. He spent eleven years at Liverpool.
Hunt was a member of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup. He played in all six England games in the tournament, scoring three times. Hunt was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2006.
Hunt died on 27 September 2021 at the age of 83.[2]
Career statistics
[change | change source]Club | Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Liverpool | 1959–60 | Second Division | 36 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 38 | 23 | ||
1960–61 | 32 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | – | – | 36 | 19 | ||||
1961–62 | 41 | 41 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 46 | 42 | ||||
1962–63 | First Division | 42 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 48 | 26 | |||
1963–64 | 41 | 31 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 46 | 33 | ||||
1964–65 | 40 | 25 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 1[a] | 0 | 58 | 37 | ||
1965–66 | 37 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 1[a] | 0 | 46 | 32[4] | ||
1966–67 | 39 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1[a] | 1 | 48 | 19 | ||
1967–68 | 40 | 25 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | – | 57 | 30 | |||
1968–69 | 38 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | 47 | 17 | |||
1969–70 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | – | 22 | 7 | |||
Total | 404 | 244 | 44 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 31 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 492 | 285 | ||
Bolton Wanderers | 1969–70 | Second Division | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 17 | 5 | ||
1970–71 | 24 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 24 | 8 | ||||
1971–72 | Third Division | 35 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 35 | 11 | |||
Total | 76 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 24 | ||
Career total | 480 | 268 | 44 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 31 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 568 | 309 |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Appearance in FA Charity Shield
Honours
[change | change source]Liverpool[3]
- Football League First Division: 1963–64, 1965–66
- Football League Second Division: 1961–62
- FA Cup: 1964–65
- FA Charity Shield: 1964, 1965, 1966
England[5]
Individual
[change | change source]- English Second Division Top Scorer: 1961–62
- English First Division Top Scorer: 1965–66
- English Football Hall of Fame: Inductee 2006
- Liverpool Football Club Hall of Fame: Inductee
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Being north of the River Mersey, Glazebury (and Culcheth) was in Lancashire before 1 April 1974. Please do not change
- ↑ "Liverpool FC mourns passing of Roger Hunt". liverpoolfc.com. Liverpool FC. 28 September 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Liverpool career stats for Roger Hunt - LFChistory - Stats galore for Liverpool FC!". LFChistory.net.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Sir Roger loses a goal but gains a record". Retrieved 27 December 2015.
- ↑ Association, The Football. "Roger Hunt". www.thefa.com.
- ↑ "Hurst the hero for England in the home of football". FIFA. Retrieved 11 November 2014