Bob Paisley
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Robert Paisley | ||
| Date of birth | 23 January 1919 | ||
| Place of birth | Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham, England | ||
| Date of death | 14 February 1996 (aged 77) | ||
| Place of death | Liverpool, England | ||
| Playing position | Left half | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1937–1939 | Bishop Auckland | ||
| 1939–1954 | Liverpool | 253 | (10) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1959–1974 | Liverpool (assistant manager) | ||
| 1974–1983 | Liverpool | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Robert "Bob" Paisley OBE (23 January 1919 – 14 February 1996) was an English footballer and manager who spent almost fifty years with Liverpool as a wing half, physiotherapist, coach and manager. Due to his achievements as Liverpool manager, Paisley is one of the most successful English football managers of all time. Paisley and Carlo Ancelotti are the only managers to have won the European Cup three times. During his nine-year tenure as Liverpool manager, Paisley won honours at a rate of 2.2 per season, a rate surpassed only by Pep Guardiola. He is one of five managers to have won the English top-flight championship as both player and manager at the same club, the others being Bill Nicholson (Tottenham Hotspur), Howard Kendall (Everton), George Graham (Arsenal) and Kenny Dalglish (Liverpool), the latter as player/manager.
Paisley came from a small Durham mining community and, in his youth, played for Bishop Auckland before he signed for Liverpool in 1939. During the Second World War, he served in the British Army and could not make his Liverpool debut until 1946. In the 1946–47 season, he was a member of the Liverpool team that won the First Division title for the first time in 24 years. In 1951, he was made club captain and remained with Liverpool until he retired from playing in 1954.
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