 Woodward while playing for England | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Vivian John Woodward[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 3 June 1879 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kennington, Surrey, England | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 31 January 1954 (aged 74)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Ealing, England | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10+1⁄2 in (1.79 m)[3] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Centre forward, inside forward | |||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Ascham College | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1895–1900 | Clacton Town | 25+ | (46+[4]) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1900–1901 | Harwich & Parkeston | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1901 | Chelmsford | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1901–1909 | Tottenham Hotspur | 146 | (68[a]) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1909 | Chelmsford | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1909–1915 | Chelsea | 106 | (30) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1919–1920 | Clacton Town | 6 | (4) | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 283 | (148) | ||||||||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1903–1911 | England | 23 | (29) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1906–1914 | England Amateurs | 30 | (45) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1908–1912 | Great Britain | 6 | (5) | |||||||||||||||||
| Southern League XI | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1908–1913 | Football League XI | 3 | (3) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||||||||
Vivian John Woodward (3 June 1879 – 31 January 1954) was an English footballer who enjoyed the peak of his career from the turn of the 20th century to the outbreak of the First World War. He played for Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea.[5]
Internationally, Woodward captained Great Britain to gold medals at the 1908 Olympics in London and in Stockholm in 1912, and made a combined 59 international appearances for a combination of England, England Amateurs, and Great Britain. His combined record for England of 75 goals in 53 matches (1.42 goals a game) is still the highest international record of any player to have scored more than 50 goals for their country, whilst his record of 75 goals is still the highest combined total of international goals scored by any English footballer. Woodward took part in ten British Home Championships, lifting the trophy eight times. In the 1903-04 Home Championship, Woodward was the top scorer with 4 goals, whilst in the 1908-09 tournement he was the joint top goalscorer with 3 goals. Woodward is the 5th highest all-time record goalscorer of the Home Championship with 14 goals in total.
He served in the British Army during the First World War, and as a result missed out on Chelsea's run to their first-ever FA Cup final in 1915. Woodward's injuries during the war caused his retirement from football. He then served on Cheleas's Board between 1922 and 1930 as a director of the club.
- ^ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 319. ISBN 978-1905891610.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
FATFWWwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Vivian Woodward". englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ^ Vivian Woodward: Football's Gentleman. 2005. pp. 17–35.
- ^ "Vivian Woodward". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 24 May 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).