Colin Woodthorpe
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Colin John Woodthorpe | ||
| Date of birth | 13 January 1969 | ||
| Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1985–1990 | Chester City | 200 | (6) |
| 1990–1994 | Norwich City | 161 | (1) |
| 1994–1997 | Aberdeen | 122 | (1) |
| 1997–2002 | 201 | (4) | |
| 2002–2008 | Bury | 244 | (1) |
| Total | 928 | (13) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Colin Woodthorpe (born 13 January 1969 in Liverpool) is an English former footballer currently serving as assistant manager at AFC Fylde.
Woodthorpe has enjoyed an extremely long professional playing career, having made his first-team debut for Chester City in the 1985-86 season at Rochdale in the Freight Rover Trophy as a 17-year-old apprentice.
The following season saw Woodthorpe make his Football League debut at Bury in a 1-1 draw and he ended the campaign with 30 league starts and two goals to his name. He also found the net in the northern final of the Freight Rover Trophy, but Chester lost 2-1 on aggregate to Mansfield Town. He remained a regular in the left-back slot for the remainder of his time at the club and did not miss a game in the 1989-90 season. At the end of the campaign he joined top-flight side Norwich City for a six-figure sum, having made 155 league appearances and scored six times in four years with Chester's first team.
His four years with Norwich included some highlights, such as playing against Inter Milan in a UEFA Cup tie (1993), appearing in an FA Cup semi-final against Sunderland (1992) and scoring in a 3-0 win over Liverpool (1991).
In 1994, he moved north of the border when he joined Aberdeen for £400,000, again providing matches in European competition. In three years at Pittodrie Woodthorpe made 51 league appearances before returning to the north-west with in 1997.
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