Ron Wilson (footballer, born 1941)

Ron Wilson
Personal information
Full name Ronald Wilson[1]
Date of birth (1941-09-06) 6 September 1941 (age 83)
Place of birth Edinburgh, Scotland
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)[2]
Position(s) Left back
Youth career
Tynecastle Athletic
Musselburgh Athletic
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1959–1963 Stoke City 11 (0)
1963–1970 Port Vale 264 (5)
1971–1977 Hellenic
Caverswall
Lambourne
Total 275+ (5+)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ronald Wilson (born 6 September 1941) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a left-back. He played 300 games in an eleven-year career in the Football League, scoring five goals.

After playing for youth sides Tynecastle Athletic and Musselburgh Athletic, he signed with Stoke City in 1959. He failed to make much of an impact and was sold on to Port Vale in 1963 for a £12,000 fee (in a package deal that also included Jackie Mudie). He spent seven years with Vale, winning the club's Player of the Year award in 1968–69 and helping the club to win promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1969–70. He departed for South Africa in December 1970 due to his son's ill health and spent five years with Hellenic, later returning to the UK with Caverswall and Lambourne.

  1. ^ "Ron Wilson". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Portsmouth v Port Vale, 1967". onevalefan.co.uk. 29 April 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2020.