Alan Davidson (Australian footballer)
Davidson in 2015
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alan Edward Davidson | ||
| Date of birth | 1 June 1960 | ||
| Place of birth | Altona North, Melbourne, Australia | ||
| Playing position | Sweeper, Right/Left Back, Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Altona City SC | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1976–1977 | Altona City SC | 36 | |
| 1978–1984 | South Melbourne | 142 | (10) |
| 1984–1985 | Nottingham Forest | 5 | |
| 1986 | South Melbourne | 13 | (3) |
| 1987–1992 | Melbourne Croatia | 133 | (8) |
| 1994–1996 | South Melbourne | 8 | (0) |
| 1992–1996 | Pahang FA | 110 | |
| 1995–1996 | South Melbourne | 7 | (0) |
| 1996–1997 | Collingwood Warriors | 10 | (0) |
| 1997–1998 | Melbourne Knights | 13 | (0) |
| – | Career Total | 441 | (21) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1979 | Australia U-20 | 10 | |
| 1980–1991 | Australia | 79 | (2) |
| 1988 | Australian Olympic Team | 4 | |
| 1989 | Australia (futsal) | 3 | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2000 | Whittlesea Zebras | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 August 2007 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20 August 2007 |
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Alan Edward Davidson (born 1 June 1960) is a former Australian football (soccer) player. His father is Australian and his mother is Japanese.
Davidson began his domestic senior football career in 1976 and 1977, playing for Altona City SC which had been his junior club. The following year, he transferred to South Melbourne, where he played until the end of the 1984 season, making 155 appearances and scoring 13 goals.
He moved to England for the 1984–85 season for Nottingham Forest F.C. and a promising start where he broke into the first team as a right-back was curtailed by illness after suffering a nasty blow to the head an having seizure during a reserve game one freezing night which sidelined him till the end of the season. He resume training and playing for the first team and suffered a serious head injury which had sidelined him for over a year which forced him into early retirement and returned home to Melbourne. He resumed playing in Australia at the end of 1986 for South Melbourne and in 1987 transferred to Melbourne Croatia, making 133 appearances and scoring 10 goals from 1987 to the end of the 1991–92 season and transferred to M-League club Pahang FA in Malaysia during 1992 where he was voted the League's best player, guiding the team to the M-League Championship and Malaysia Cup double.
During 1989 Davidson Captain the Australia National Futsal Team to the first ever FIFA Futsal World Cup in the Netherlands where he played in all 3 round one games against Zimbabwe, Italy and United States. Brazil were crowned FIFA Futsal World Champions beating the Netherlands 2-1 in the final.
Near the end of his playing career, he guested for South Melbourne FC for two seasons, (1994–95 and 1995–96), while with the Malaysian club, Pahang FA in between (1992–96). His penultimate season (1996–97) he guested with the Collingwood Warriors, and his last season (1997–98) was back with the Melbourne Knights.
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