Andy Booth
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Andrew David Booth | ||
| Date of birth | 6 December 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Huddersfield, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Huddersfield Town | |||
| – | Scarborough | ||
| – | Huddersfield Town | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–1996 | Huddersfield Town | 123 | (52) |
| 1996–2001 | Sheffield Wednesday | 133 | (28) |
| 2001 | → Tottenham Hotspur (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2001–2009 | Huddersfield Town | 270 | (85) |
| Total | 530 | (166) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1995 | England U21 | 3 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 May 2009. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 3 May 2008 |
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Andrew David "Andy" Booth (born 6 December 1973) is a retired professional footballer. Whilst at Huddersfield he announced his retirement on 22 April 2009, but remains at the club as an ambassador, he also played for Sheffield Wednesday and Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League and represented his country with the England U21's.
Booth was born in Huddersfield, England. At the age of 11 he attended Salendine Nook High School. Andy began his career playing for his home town club as a trainee, making his first team debut as a substitute in a 1–0 defeat at Fulham in March 1992, but had to wait until November that year to score his first goal (in a 2–2 draw at Blackpool) for the club. A few more goals followed in the 1992–93 season, but it was the season after, the last at Huddersfield Town's Leeds Road ground, that he really forced his way into the first team.
The next season was probably the best of Booth's career. Partnered with Ronnie Jepson, Booth netted 29 goals, of which six came in two hat-tricks, and finished the season by scoring one more in the play-offs, guiding the Terriers to promotion into Division One. His efforts got him international recognition and earned him an England debut for the England Under-21s. Then-manager Neil Warnock described him as "the best header of a ball outside the Premier League". The next season, in which Huddersfield finished just outside the playoff spots in the division above proved to be the last Booth would play for Huddersfield after four seasons, during which he had scored 53 league goals for the club.
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