Dennis Fidler
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dennis John Fidler | ||
| Date of birth | 22 June 1938 | ||
| Place of birth | , England | ||
| Date of death | 2 June 2015 (aged 76) | ||
| Place of death | Italy | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
| Playing position | Left winger | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Manchester United | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1956–1959 | Manchester City | 5 | (1) |
| 1960–1961 | Port Vale | 38 | (12) |
| 1961–1962 | Grimsby Town | 9 | (3) |
| 1962–1967 | Halifax Town | 143 | (39) |
| 1967–1968 | Darlington | 34 | (3) |
| 1968–1973 | Macclesfield Town | 127 | (29) |
| Total | 356 | (87) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Dennis John Fidler (22 June 1938 – 2 June 2015) was an English footballer. A Winger, he scored 59 goals in 229 league appearances in an 11-year career in the Football League.
A two-time FA Youth Cup winner with Manchester United, he turned professional at Manchester City in 1957. He joined Port Vale in May 1960, before being sold on to Grimsby Town for £2,000 in October 1961. He was promoted out of the Third Division with the "Mariners" in 1961–62, before joining Halifax Town. He spent five years at the club, playing 143 league games, before transferring to Darlington in 1967. The next year he signed with Macclesfield Town, and won the Northern Premier League twice as well as the FA Trophy.
Fidler was born in in 1938. He played for Manchester United as a youth, but never played first team football. He played alongside names such as Duncan Edwards, Wilf McGuinness and Bobby Charlton as Jimmy Murphy led the United youth side to two successive FA Youth Cup final victories, beating West Bromwich Albion in 1955 and Chesterfield in 1956.
He signed amateur forms with cross-town rivals Manchester City in 1956, and turned professional at Maine Road the following year.Les McDowall gave him his senior debut in October 1957, as he played outside-forward in a 2–2 draw with Luton Town. Fidler took the place of Paddy Fagan, who had been away on international duty. Fagan returned in the next match, and Fidler had to wait over a year to receive another opportunity, a four-game run in place of Bobby Johnstone. During this spell he scored his first senior goal in a 4–0 win over Leeds United in a First Division match at Elland Road. In February 1959 he made his final appearance for the club, against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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