Teddy Sheringham

Teddy Sheringham
MBE
Sheringham in 2024
Personal information
Full name Edward Paul Sheringham
Date of birth (1966-04-02) 2 April 1966 (age 58)
Place of birth Highams Park, London, England
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1982–1983 Leytonstone & Ilford
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1983–1991 Millwall 220 (93)
1985Aldershot (loan) 5 (0)
1985Djurgårdens IF (loan) 21 (13)
1991–1992 Nottingham Forest 42 (14)
1992–1997 Tottenham Hotspur 166 (75)
1997–2001 Manchester United 104 (31)
2001–2003 Tottenham Hotspur 70 (22)
2003–2004 Portsmouth 32 (9)
2004–2007 West Ham United 76 (28)
2007–2008 Colchester United 19 (3)
2015 Stevenage 0 (0)
Total 755 (288)
International career
1983 England U17 3 (0)
1983–1985 England Youth 8 (5)
1988 England U21 1 (0)
1993–2002 England 51 (11)
Managerial career
2015–2016 Stevenage
2017–2018 ATK
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Edward Paul Sheringham MBE (born 2 April 1966) is an English football manager and former player. He played as a forward, mostly as a second striker, in a 24-year professional career.[1] Sheringham was part of the Manchester United team that won the treble of the Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League in 1999. He scored the equalising goal and provided the assist for the club's winning goal in the 1999 UEFA Champions League final against Bayern Munich that sealed it, with both goals coming in injury time of the second half.

Sheringham began his career at Millwall, where he scored 111 goals between 1983 and 1991, and is the club's second all-time leading scorer. He left to join First Division Nottingham Forest. A year later, Sheringham scored Forest's first ever Premier League goal,[2] and was signed by Tottenham Hotspur. After five seasons at Spurs, Sheringham joined Manchester United where he won three Premier League titles, the FA Cup, the UEFA Champions League, the Intercontinental Cup and the FA Charity Shield. In 2001, he was named both the PFA Players' Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year.

After leaving Manchester United at the end of the 2000–01 season, Sheringham re-joined Tottenham Hotspur, where he was a losing finalist in the 2001–02 Football League Cup. He spent one season at newly promoted Portsmouth, scoring the club's first Premier League goal,[3] before joining West Ham United, where he helped the club gain promotion from the 2004–05 Football League Championship. The following season, Sheringham appeared for West Ham in the 2006 FA Cup final, becoming the third-oldest player to appear in an FA Cup final.[4]

Sheringham is currently the thirteenth-highest goalscorer in the history of the Premier League with 146 goals, and is the competition's 34th-highest appearance maker.[5] He holds the record as the oldest outfield player to appear in a Premier League match (40 years, 272 days)[6] and the oldest player to score in a Premier League match (40 years, 268 days).[7] He was capped 51 times for the England national team, scoring 11 times, and played in the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cups, as well as the 1996 UEFA European Championship. He retired from competitive football at the end of the 2007–08 season with Colchester United, at the age of 42. He has since managed League Two club Stevenage, and ATK of the Indian Super League.

  1. ^ "Teddy Sheringham". Soccerbase. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  2. ^ "20 years on: The Premier League then & now". Goal.com. 22 May 2013. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  3. ^ "Pompey 2 Aston Villa 1". The News. 16 August 2003. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  4. ^ "Sheringham can add sting in the tale". The Telegraph. 12 May 2006. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  5. ^ "Players Index". Premier League. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Premier League dad's army: top division's oldest outfield players, in pictures". The Telegraph. 1 March 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  7. ^ "Peter Crouch: Stoke City's former England striker still hungry for goals at the age of 36". BBC Sport. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2020.