Harry Gregg

Harry Gregg
OBE
Personal information
Full name Harry Gregg[1]
Date of birth (1932-10-27)27 October 1932
Place of birth Tobermore, Northern Ireland
Date of death 16 February 2020(2020-02-16) (aged 87)
Place of death Coleraine, Northern Ireland
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Windsor Park Swifts
Coleraine
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1952–1957 Doncaster Rovers 94 (0)
1957–1966 Manchester United 210 (0)
1966–1967 Stoke City 2 (0)
Total 306 (0)
International career
1954–1963 Northern Ireland 25 (0)
Managerial career
1968–1972 Shrewsbury Town
1972–1975 Swansea City
1975–1978 Crewe Alexandra
1986–1987 Carlisle United
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Harry Gregg OBE (27 October 1932 – 16 February 2020) was a Northern Irish professional footballer and manager. A goalkeeper, he played for Manchester United during the reign of Sir Matt Busby, with a total of 247 appearances for the club. He was a survivor of the Munich air disaster in 1958. Gregg also played for Doncaster Rovers and Stoke City, as well as making 25 appearances for the Northern Ireland national team between 1954 and 1963, including at the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He later went into management with Carlisle United, Crewe Alexandra, Shrewsbury Town and Swansea City.

  1. ^ "Harry Gregg". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 4 September 2018.