Chris Woods
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Christopher Charles Eric Woods | ||
| Date of birth | 14 November 1959 | ||
| Place of birth | Swineshead, Lincolnshire, England | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1975–1976 | Nottingham Forest | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1976–1979 | Nottingham Forest | 0 | (0) |
| 1979–1981 | Queens Park Rangers | 63 | (0) |
| 1981–1986 | Norwich City | 216 | (0) |
| 1986–1991 | Rangers | 173 | (0) |
| 1991–1996 | Sheffield Wednesday | 107 | (0) |
| 1995 | → Reading (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 1996 | Colorado Rapids | 23 | (0) |
| 1996 | → Southampton (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 1997 | Sunderland | 0 | (0) |
| 1997–1998 | Burnley | 12 | (0) |
| Total | 603 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 1979–1983 | England U-21 | 6 | (0) |
| 1984–1989 | England B | 2 | (0) |
| 1985–1993 | England | 43 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Christopher Charles Eric "Chris" Woods (born 14 November 1959) is a former England international football goalkeeper, who played in the Football League and Premier League for Nottingham Forest, Queens Park Rangers, Norwich City, Sheffield Wednesday, Reading, Southampton and Burnley, in the Scottish Football League for Rangers, and in Major League Soccer for the Colorado Rapids. He was working as the goalkeeping coach at Everton and United States. But, with the departure of David Moyes, he followed him to Manchester United to replace Eric Steele as the new goalkeeping coach. In June 2015 he became goalkeeping coach at West Ham United.
Woods was Peter Shilton's long-time understudy in the England team in the mid to late 1980s, finally claiming the number one shirt for himself in the early 1990s. In all, he managed to accrue 43 caps in an eight-year international career.
Woods was a confident, brave, and agile goalkeeper, and his association with Shilton began at an early age when he signed for Nottingham Forest as an apprentice in 1976. Over the next three years he never made an appearance for Forest as they won promotion from the Football League Second Division in 1977 - Shilton had yet to arrive at this time - and then won the Football League First Division title straightaway. Shilton came to the club in September 1977 and did not miss a match.
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