Alan Bloor
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alan Bloor | ||
| Date of birth | 16 March 1943 | ||
| Place of birth | Stoke-on-Trent, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Centre-half | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1960–1978 | Stoke City | 388 | (17) |
| 1967 | → Cleveland Stokers (loan) | 11 | (1) |
| 1978 | Port Vale | 6 | (1) |
| Total | 405 | (19) | |
| National team | |||
| England Youth | |||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1979 | Port Vale | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Alan Bloor (born 16 March 1943) is an English former footballer and manager. He made 394 league appearances in the Football League for both Potteries teams.
He spent eighteen years as a centre-half at Stoke City between 1960 and 1978, helping them to lift the League Cup in 1972, before spending a brief association with Port Vale as a player and manager between 1978 and 1979. He also briefly played for American club Cleveland Stokers in 1967. He is fifth in Stoke's all-time appearances list, and was nicknamed "Bluto" by the club's supporters.
Bloor played centre-half for Stoke-on-Trent schoolboys and won youth caps with England. He started his career with Stoke City in 1960 on his 17th birthday. He made his first team debut on 19 September 1961, playing alongside Eric Skeels in a 1–0 defeat by Brighton & Hove Albion at the Victoria Ground. He played a total of six Second Division games in 1961–62, but did not take to the field in another competitive fixture until the 1964–65 season; he played 15 First Division during the campaign, and scored his first senior goal in a 1–1 draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford on 23 January. He played 36 games in 1965–66 and 32 games in 1966–67. He was loaned out to Stoke's sister club Cleveland Stokers in 1967, and played 11 United Soccer Association games.
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