Jackie Blanchflower

Jackie Blanchflower
Personal information
Full name John Blanchflower[1]
Date of birth (1933-03-07)7 March 1933[1][2]
Place of birth Belfast, Northern Ireland[1][2]
Date of death 2 September 1998(1998-09-02) (aged 65)[1]
Place of death Stalybridge, England[1]
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[2][3]
Position(s) Half back[2]
Youth career
1949–1951 Manchester United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1951–1958 Manchester United 105 (26)
International career
1954–1958 Northern Ireland 12 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Blanchflower (7 March 1933 – 2 September 1998) was a footballer from Northern Ireland. He graduated from Manchester United's youth system and played for the club on 117 occasions, winning one league title, before his career was cut short due to injuries sustained in the Munich air disaster. He was also capped 12 times at senior level by Northern Ireland.

He was the younger brother of Danny Blanchflower, the captain of the Tottenham Hotspur side that dominated English football in the early 1960s.

  1. ^ a b c d e "Jackie Blanchflower". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference mufcbio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Jackie Blanchflower". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 6 January 2022.