Alf Littlehales
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alfred Littlehales | ||
| Date of birth | 1867 | ||
| Place of birth | Wellington, Shropshire, England | ||
| Date of death | 18 November 1942 (aged 75) | ||
| Place of death | Southampton, England | ||
| Playing position | Centre half | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –1892 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | ||
| 1892–1894 | Stoke | 0 | (0) |
| 1894–1898 | Southampton | 51 | (9) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Alfred "Alf" Littlehales (1867 – 18 November 1942) was an English professional footballer who played at centre-half for Southampton in the 1890s.
Littlehales was born in Wellington, Shropshire and started his football career with Wolverhampton Wanderers, before joining Stoke in August 1892.
On 26 April 1893, he was part of the Stoke team which visited the County Ground to play a friendly match against Southampton St Mary's. Even with the future founder of football in Brazil, Charles Miller playing at outside-left, the "Saints" were "outplayed fairly and squarely on every point", losing 8–0. Despite the result, it was reported that the spectators "thoroughly enjoyed the exhibition" and looked forward to witnessing "more matches of a similar character" in future. Also playing for Stoke were Charles Baker, Lachie Thomson and Willie Naughton, all of whom were to move to Southampton within two years.
In 1894, Southampton St Mary's were one of the nine founder members of the Southern League, which had been created to enable clubs in southern England who were not admitted to the Football League, to play competitive football on a regular basis. For the start of their League career, Saints signed several new players on professional contracts, including Baker, Littlehales and Thomson from Stoke and Fred Hollands from Millwall.
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