Henry Wood (footballer)

Henry Wood
Wood (standing, fifth from the left) in 1893
Personal information
Full name Henry Elwes Wood
Date of birth 1865
Place of birth England
Date of death 1907 (aged 41-42)
Place of death Unknown
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1892–1894 Barcelona Football Club +3 (+1)
1895 Torelló Foot-ball Association 2
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Henry Elwes Wood (1865 – 1907[1]) was an English football pioneer who played as a defender for some of the earliest Catalan clubs in existence such as Barcelona Cricket Club and Barcelona Football Club.[2]

  1. ^ "Henry Elwes Wood 1865-1907 - Ancestry". www.ancestry.com. Archived from the original on 30 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Barcelona Cricket Club: els primers en jugar a futbol" [Barcelona Cricket Club: the first to play football]. memoriesfutbolcatala.com (in Spanish). 25 December 2020. Archived from the original on 11 August 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.