Chris Woods

Chris Woods
Woods in 2013
Personal information
Full name Christopher Charles Eric Woods
Date of birth (1959-11-14) 14 November 1959 (age 65)
Place of birth Swineshead, Lincolnshire, England
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
Scotland
(Goalkeeping coach)
Youth career
1975–1976 Nottingham Forest
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1976–1979 Nottingham Forest 0 (0)
1979–1981 Queens Park Rangers 63 (0)
1981–1986 Norwich City 216 (0)
1986–1991 Rangers 173 (0)
1991–1996 Sheffield Wednesday 107 (0)
1995Reading (loan) 5 (0)
1996 Colorado Rapids 23 (0)
1996Southampton (loan) 4 (0)
1997 Sunderland 0 (0)
1997–1998 Burnley 12 (0)
Total 603 (0)
International career
1977–1978 England Youth 9 (0)
1979–1983 England U21 6 (0)
1984–1989 England B 2 (0)
1985–1993[2] England 43 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Christopher Charles Eric Woods (born 14 November 1959) is an English football coach and former professional footballer, who is goalkeeping coach for the Scotland national team.

As a player, he was a goalkeeper who played in the Football League and Premier League for Nottingham Forest, Queens Park Rangers, Norwich City, Sheffield Wednesday, Reading, Southampton and Burnley. He also played in the Scottish Football League for Rangers[3] and in Major League Soccer for the Colorado Rapids.[4] He was an England international and was largely Peter Shilton's long-time understudy in the England team in the mid to late 1980s, finally claiming the number one shirt for himself after the 1990 World Cup. In all, he managed to accrue 43 caps in an eight-year international career.

Woods has been goalkeeper coach for Everton, the United States and Manchester United. He was most recently coaching at West Ham United.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference englandfootballonline was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Christopher Charles Eric 'Chris' Woods - International Appearances". The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.
  3. ^ "Chris Woods". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  4. ^ "1996 Colorado Rapids Statistics" (PDF). Colorado Rapids. Retrieved 24 January 2010. [dead link]