Personal information | |||
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Full name | Kenneth Mitchell[1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 26 May 1957||
Place of birth | Sunderland, England | ||
Date of death | 4 September 2019 | (aged 62)||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
– | Newcastle United | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1975–1981 | Newcastle United | 66 | (2) |
1978 | → Morton (loan) | 3 | (0) |
1978 | → Tulsa Roughnecks (loan) | 3 | (0) |
1981–1982 | Darlington | 13 | (1) |
1982–1983 | Workington | ||
1984–1985 | Kuusysi | 42 | (0) |
1986 | Finnairin Palloilijat | 17 | (0) |
1986 | Gateshead | 7 | (0) |
1987 | Kuusysi | 21 | (1) |
1988 | Lapuan Virkiä | 13 | (2) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Kenneth Mitchell (26 May 1957 – 4 September 2019) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Newcastle United and Darlington,[3] in the North American Soccer League for the Tulsa Roughnecks, in the Scottish League for Morton, and in the Finnish leagues for Kuusysi, FinnPa and Lapuan Virkiä. With Kuusysi, he won the Finnish league title in 1984, reached the quarter-final of the 1985–86 European Cup, and won the 1987 Finnish Cup. He also played non-league football for clubs including Workington and Gateshead.