Clive Clarke
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Clive Richard Luke Clarke | ||
| Date of birth | 14 January 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Left back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1996–1998 | Stoke City | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1999–2005 | Stoke City | 223 | (9) |
| 2005–2006 | West Ham United | 2 | (0) |
| 2006–2008 | Sunderland | 4 | (0) |
| 2006 | → Coventry City (loan) | 12 | (0) |
| 2007 | → Leicester City (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| Total | 242 | (9) | |
| National team | |||
| 2004 | Ireland | 2 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Clive Richard Luke Clarke (born 14 January 1980) is a former Irish footballer. He played primarily as a left back, but also as centre back, left midfielder or centre midfielder. He is now a football agent, after leaving Sunderland for health reasons.
Clarke started playing football with local club Newtown Schoolboys in his home town of Newtownmountkennedy (County Wicklow). He joined Stoke City as a trainee in August 1996, making his debut against Oldham Athletic in May 1999. He quickly became a regular in the team, making 55 appearances in the 1999–2000 season and 33 appearances in the 2000–01 season. In both seasons Stoke reached the play-offs where they lost to Gillingham and Walsall respectively. Although he was dropped from the side in February 2001, which prompted him to hand in a transfer request.
However, he returned to the side in 2001–02 and helped Stoke gain promotion by beating Brentford in the 2002 Football League Second Division play-off Final. He played 32 times in 2002–03 as Stoke narrowly avoided relegation. He made 44 appearances in both the 2003–04 and 2004–05 campaigns. He left for West Ham United in the summer of 2005 after making 264 appearances for Stoke City in nine years.
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