Alan Crawford (English footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alan Paterson Crawford | ||
| Date of birth | 30 October 1953 | ||
| Place of birth | Rotherham, Yorkshire, England | ||
| Playing position | Winger | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1971–1978 | Rotherham United | 233+4 | (49) |
| 1973 | Mansfield Town Loan | 1+1 | (0) |
| 1979–1982 | Chesterfield | 88+6 | (20) |
| 1982–1985 | Bristol City | 85+7 | (26) |
| 1985–19?? | Exeter City | 33 | (3) |
| 198?–198? | Bath City | ?? | (?) |
| Teams managed | |||
| ?? | Blackpool coach | ||
| ?? | coach | ||
| ?? | West Bromwich Albion coach | ||
| ?? | Nottingham Forest coach | ||
| ?? | Rotherham United scout | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Alan Crawford (born 30 October 1953) is an English former footballer who made over 440 Football League appearances scoring 98 goals playing as an outside left.
Crawford started his football career with Rotherham United and went on to make 169 consecutive appearances for them. He scored 31 Football League goals in their Third Division campaign in 1976–77, which is a Rotherham record for a midfielder. In 2007, he was voted as the greatest ever left-sided midfielder for Rotherham, in a Millers Mad poll.
He later moved to Chesterfield, and scored the winning goal for them in their 1980/81 Anglo-Scottish Cup victory over Notts County. Crawford subsequently played for Bristol City, Exeter City, Bath City and Bristol Manor Farm. He rejoined Bristol City as a youth team coach before retiring from football working as a painter & decorator in Backwell near Bristol in the late 1990s.
In recent years he has established himself as a football coach with clubs such as Blackpool F.C, , West Bromwich Albion and Nottingham Forest, working notably for Gary Megson. He is currently a scout for his hometown team Rotherham United.
He has a brother called Andrew Crawford and a sister called Jackie Crawford who both live in the Jersey Channel Islands.
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