Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 20 December 1963 | ||
Place of birth | Urmston, England | ||
Playing position | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1981–1986 | Crewe Alexandra | 168 | (55) |
1986–1987 | Shrewsbury Town | 11 | (3) |
1987–1991 | Chesterfield | 119 | (53) |
1991–1992 | Kettering Town | 5 | (0) |
Worksop Town | ? | (?) | |
Glapwell | ? | (?) | |
1996–1998 | Congleton Town | 37 | (17) |
Total | 340 | (128) | |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
David Harold Waller (born 20 December 1963 in Urmston, Lancashire) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League, as a forward for clubs including Crewe Alexandra, Shrewsbury Town and Chesterfield.
Waller signed a professional contract at Crewe in 1982. After scoring 55 goals in four season at Gresty Road, he was sold to Shrewsbury for £20,000 in 1986, but suffered an injury soon after, and was sold for £3,000 to Chesterfield, becoming the last player signed by John Duncan during his first spell in charge.
Waller scored 37 goals in his first two seasons at Chesterfield; in the 1988-89 season he equalled Jimmy Cookson's feat of scoring in eight successive League games. However, he suffered a serious cruciate ligament injury during the following season (his 16 league goals still made him the club's leading scorer), and eventually left the club, playing for non-league teams while running a stall on Chesterfield's market. He was player/manager at Glapwell in 1993, and retired from football at the end of the 1997-1998 season.