David Crown

David Crown
Personal information
Full name David Ian Crown[1]
Date of birth (1958-02-16) 16 February 1958 (age 66)
Place of birth Enfield, England
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[2]
Position(s) Forward, winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
0000–1979 Grays Athletic
1979–1980 Walthamstow Avenue
1980–1981 Brentford 46 (8)
1981–1983 Portsmouth 28 (2)
1983 → Exeter City (loan) 7 (3)
1983–1985 Reading 88 (14)
1985–1987 Cambridge United 116 (45)
1987–1990 Southend United 113 (61)
1990–1993 Gillingham 87 (40)
1993–1994 Dagenham & Redbridge 33 (9)
1994–1995 Purfleet
1995–1996 Aylesbury United
1996 Sudbury Town
1996– Billericay Town
0000–1997 Concord Rangers
1997–2001 Purfleet
Managerial career
Purfleet (player-manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David Ian Crown (born 16 February 1958) is an English retired professional footballer who played as a forward in the Football League, most notably for Cambridge United and Southend United.[1][3] He also played for Reading, Gillingham, Brentford, Portsmouth and Exeter City.[4] Until March 2021, Crown's 24 goals in a Football League season stood as Cambridge United's club record.[5] He later player-managed Purfleet in non-League football and served as assistant manager at Concord Rangers and Southend United.[6][7]

  1. ^ a b "David Crown". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. ^ Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5.
  3. ^ "Player Profile". SUFCdb. Archived from the original on 9 January 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  4. ^ Triggs, Roger (2001). The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club. Tempus Publishing Ltd. pp. 99–100. ISBN 0-7524-2243-X.
  5. ^ Page, Stephen (27 March 2021). "Paul Mullin breaks Cambridge United goalscoring record in win at Carlisle United". CambridgeshireLive. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference GrecianArchive was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "On This Day... – News". Retrieved 3 October 2017.