Player Profile

England Player Profile

Gordon Banks

Caps:
73

Date of Birth:
30.12.1937

Birthplace:
Sheffield

Goals [Top Scorers]:
0

Senior Debut:
06.04.1963

Video/Audio:

Current Club:
No longer playing

Clubs:
Sheffied Schools, Millspout Steel Works (Sheffield), Chesterfield, Leicester City, Stoke City.

Information:
Position: Goalkeeper
Debut V Scotland

One of England's all time greats. Made famous for his save against Pele.
WC winner 1966
Awarded the OBE in 1970.
1972 Footballer of the Year. 1972 Sportsman of the Year.
Loss of sight in one eye in a car accident in 1972 robbed the world of an outstanding individual.
Post playing career:
Port Vale reserve team coach 1978-9
Telford United general manager in 1980
Stoke City specialist coach (for goalkeepers) - appointed in 1982.
England Under-23 player - 2 caps

Games
FULL
1 06 Apr 1963	England 1 v 2 Scotland
2 08 May 1963	England 1 v 1 Brazil
3 29 May 1963	England 4 v 2 Czechoslovakia
4 02 Jun 1963	England 2 v 1 East Germany
5 12 Oct 1963	England 4 v 0 Wales
6 23 Oct 1963	England 2 v 1 Rest of World
7 20 Nov 1963	England 8 v 3 Northern Ireland
8 11 Apr 1964	England 0 v 1 Scotland
9 06 May 1964	England 2 v 1 Uruguay
10 17 May 1964	England 4 v 3 Portugal
11 27 May 1964	England 10 v 0 USA
12 04 Jun 1964	England 1 v 1 Portugal
13 06 Jun 1964	England 0 v 1 Argentina
14 03 Oct 1964	England 4 v 3 Northern Ireland
15 10 Apr 1965	England 2 v 2 Scotland
16 05 May 1965	England 1 v 0 Hungary
17 09 May 1965	England 1 v 1 Yugoslavia
18 12 May 1965	England 1 v 0 West Germany
19 16 May 1965	England 2 v 1 Sweden
20 10 Nov 1965	England 2 v 1 Northern Ireland
21 08 Dec 1965	England 2 v 0 Spain
22 05 Jan 1966	England 1 v 1 Poland
23 23 Feb 1966	England 1 v 0 West Germany
24 02 Apr 1966	England 4 v 3 Scotland
25 04 May 1966	England 2 v 0 Yugoslavia
26 26 Jun 1966	England 3 v 0 Finland
27 05 Jul 1966	England 1 v 0 Poland
28 11 Jul 1966	England 0 v 0 Uruguay
29 16 Jul 1966	England 2 v 0 Mexico
30 20 Jul 1966	England 2 v 0 France
31 23 Jul 1966	England 1 v 0 Argentina
32 26 Jul 1966	England 2 v 1 Portugal
33 30 Jul 1966	England 4 v 2 West Germany
34 22 Oct 1966	England 2 v 0 Northern Ireland
35 02 Nov 1966	England 0 v 0 Czechoslovakia
36 16 Nov 1966	England 5 v 1 Wales
37 15 Apr 1967	England 2 v 3 Scotland
38 21 Oct 1967	England 3 v 0 Wales
39 22 Nov 1967	England 2 v 0 Northern Ireland
40 06 Dec 1967	England 2 v 2 USSR
41 24 Feb 1968	England 1 v 1 Scotland
42 03 Apr 1968	England 1 v 0 Spain
43 01 Jun 1968	England 0 v 1 West Germany
44 05 Jun 1968	England 0 v 1 Yugoslavia
45 08 Jun 1968	England 2 v 0 USSR
46 06 Nov 1968	England 0 v 0 Romania
47 15 Jan 1969	England 1 v 1 Romania
48 12 Mar 1969	England 5 v 0 France
49 03 May 1969	England 3 v 1 Northern Ireland
50 10 May 1969	England 4 v 1 Scotland
51 08 Jun 1969	England 2 v 1 Uruguay
52 12 Jun 1969	England 1 v 2 Brazil
53 14 Jan 1970	England 0 v 0 Holland
54 25 Feb 1970	England 3 v 1 Belgium
55 18 Apr 1970	England 1 v 1 Wales
56 21 Apr 1970	England 3 v 1 Northern Ireland
57 25 Apr 1970	England 0 v 0 Scotland
58 20 May 1970	England 4 v 0 Colombia
59 24 May 1970	England 2 v 0 Ecuador
60 02 Jun 1970	England 1 v 0 Romania
61 07 Jun 1970	England 0 v 1 Brazil
62 11 Jun 1970	England 1 v 0 Czechoslovakia
63 03 Feb 1971	England 1 v 0 Malta
64 21 Apr 1971	England 3 v 0 Greece
65 12 May 1971	England 5 v 0 Malta
66 15 May 1971	England 1 v 0 Northern Ireland
67 22 May 1971	England 3 v 1 Scotland
68 13 Oct 1971	England 3 v 2 Switzerland
69 01 Dec 1971	England 2 v 0 Greece
70 29 Apr 1972	England 1 v 3 West Germany
71 13 May 1972	England 0 v 0 West Germany
72 20 May 1972	England 3 v 0 Wales
73 27 May 1972	England 1 v 0 Scotland

Record
Level	Pld	Won	Drawn	Lost
FULL	73	49	15	9

Books and Videos:
Banksy: My Autobiography [Gordon Banks]

Birthdays for Feb
Birthdate	Player
14.02.1987	David Wheater
06.02.1984	Darren Bent
18.02.1983	Jermaine Jenas
23.02.1981	Gareth Barry
19.02.1981	Nicky Shorey
10.02.1981	Andy Johnson
27.02.1978	James Beattie
18.02.1975	Gary Neville
11.02.1974	Nick Barmby
11.02.1972	Steve McManaman
11.02.1969	Shaka Hislop
03.02.1967	Tim Flowers
01.02.1966	Rob Lee
22.02.1964	Andy Gray
14.02.1959	Russell Osman
12.02.1959	Michael Harford
07.02.1959	Sammy Lee
09.02.1958	Cyrille Regis
01.02.1958	Luther Blissett
20.02.1951	Phil Neal
14.02.1951	Kevin Keegan
27.02.1948	Alex Lindsay
23.02.1948	Trevor Cherry
14.02.1948	John Dobson
10.02.1948	John Rimmer
02.02.1948	David Clement
22.02.1947	John Radford
20.02.1947	Peter Osgood
26.02.1946	Colin Bell
05.02.1946	David Sadler
06.02.1943	Terry Venables
27.02.1942	Michael Bailey
20.02.1940	Jimmy Greaves
07.02.1940	Michael McNeil
06.02.1939	John Fantham
01.02.1937	Anthony Waiters
16.02.1934	Kenneth Brown
27.02.1933	Stanley Anderson
22.02.1933	Bobby Smith
18.02.1933	Bobby Robson
12.02.1933	Brian Pilkington
01.02.1933	Richard Sillett
07.02.1932	John Atyeo
08.02.1929	Roger Byrne
07.02.1929	Ernest Langley
28.02.1927	Thomas Garrett
06.02.1924	Billy Wright
23.02.1923	Henry Clarke
03.02.1922	Victor Metcalfe
27.02.1920	Edmund Shimwell
02.02.1920	George Hardwick
02.02.1920	Arthur Willis
01.02.1915	Stanley Matthews
26.02.1914	John Morton
25.02.1911	Donald Welsh
08.02.1911	James Richardson
26.02.1910	Victor Woodley
22.02.1910	George Hunt
07.02.1910	Ted Sagar
08.02.1909	Samuel Weaver
05.02.1909	Arthur Cunliffe
26.02.1908	James O'Dowd
22.02.1908	John Bowers
27.02.1907	John Barker
02.02.1907	Ellis Rimmer
26.02.1906	Joseph Beresford
19.02.1905	Policeman Roberts
19.02.1901	Claude Ashton
05.02.1901	Thomas Cook
10.02.1900	Sydney Bishop
15.02.1898	Fred Titmuss
02.02.1898	Harry Storer
05.02.1896	Tom Urwin
10.02.1893	Henry Healless
02.02.1893	Richard Pym
13.02.1892	Howard Baker
06.02.1890	Clement Stephenson
25.02.1886	William Hardinge
16.02.1886	Andrew Ducat
20.02.1885	George Wall
24.02.1884	Kenneth Hunt
09.02.1883	Robert Benson
10.02.1880	Albert Gosnell
08.02.1880	Joseph Bache
21.02.1878	Geoffrey Wilson
15.02.1878	John Sharp
23.02.1875	Arthur Capes
14.02.1872	Gerald Dewhurst
09.02.1870	William Winckworth
21.02.1869	John Reynolds
19.02.1869	Arthur Topham
27.02.1866	Josiah Reader
14.02.1866	William Townley
14.02.1864	Richard Baugh
14.02.1863	William Arthur
04.02.1863	William Cobbold
20.02.1862	Clement Mitchell
01.02.1858	Percy Fairclough
07.02.1857	Alfred Lyttelton
16.02.1856	Thomas Sorby