Alan Dodd

For the entomologist, see Alan Parkhurst Dodd.

Alan Dodd
Personal information
Full name Alan Dodd[1]
Date of birth (1953-09-20) 20 September 1953 (age 71)[2]
Place of birth Stoke-on-Trent, England[2]
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[3]
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1968–1969 Stoke City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1969–1982 Stoke City 357 (3)
1982–1985 Wolverhampton Wanderers 88 (5)
1985 Stoke City 16 (0)
1985–1986 IF Elfsborg 35 (1)
1986 → Port Vale (loan) 2 (0)
1987–1988 GAIS 37 (3)
1987 → Cork City (loan) 7 (0)
1988–1989 Landskrona BoIS 19 (0)
1989 Rocester
Goldenhill Wanderers
Ball Haye Green
Total 561 (12)
International career
1974–1976 England U23 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alan Dodd (born 20 September 1953) is an English former professional footballer who played in England for Stoke City, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Port Vale; he also played in Sweden and the Republic of Ireland.

An England under-23 international defender, he made 402 of his 520 Football League career appearances at Stoke City between 1972 and 1982. He was voted Stoke's Player of the Year in 1980. He helped the "Potters" to win promotion out of the Second Division in 1978–79. He spent 1982 to 1985 with Wolves and helped the club to win promotion into the First Division in 1982–83. He spent the remainder of the 1980s with various clubs across Europe, playing for IF Elfsborg, Port Vale, GAIS, Cork City, Landskrona BoIS, and Rocester. He won promotions to the Swedish top flight with both Elfsborg and GAIS.

  1. ^ "Alan Dodd". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Dunk, Peter (1987). Rothmans football yearbook 1987-88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 294. ISBN 978-0356143545. Retrieved 14 April 2020.