Ian Moores
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ian Richard Moores | ||
| Date of birth | 5 October 1954 | ||
| Place of birth | Chesterton, England | ||
| Date of death | 13 January 1998 (aged 43) | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Staffordshire County Boys' Team | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1974–1976 | Stoke City | 50 | (15) |
| 1976–1978 | Tottenham Hotspur | 29 | (6) |
| 1977 | → Western Suburbs (loan) | 5 | (2) |
| 1978–1982 | Leyton Orient | 117 | (26) |
| 1982–1983 | Bolton Wanderers | 29 | (5) |
| 1983 | → Barnsley (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 1983–1988 | APOEL | 116 | (39) |
| 1988–1989 | Tamworth | ||
| 1989 | Landskrona BoIS | 10 | (4) |
| Total | 359 | (97) | |
| National team | |||
| 1975 | England U-23 | 2 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ian Richard Moores (5 October 1954 – 13 January 1998) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Barnsley, Bolton Wanderers, Leyton Orient, Stoke City and Tottenham Hotspur.
Moores was born in Chesterton, Staffordshire and learned to play his football for the Staffordshire County Boys' Team. Moores then joined Stoke City's youth team and as a schoolboy at the age of fifteen continued his development at the Victoria Ground. Moores started as a left winger but became a centre-forward after a switch in Stoke's "A" team with a hat-trick to his name in the second half of a match. He graduated to the senior team in April 1974, having appeared for the England under-23 team twice. He made his debut for Stoke away at Leicester City towards the end of the 1973–74 season and in 1974–75 he became a member of Tony Waddington's first team scoring four goals in 18 matches. He was joined top scorer with Jimmy Greenhoff in 1975–76 with 13 but with Stoke needing money he was sold to Tottenham Hotspur in August 1976.
He moved to Tottenham Hotspur in August 1976 for a £75,000 fee. Moores started off well, scoring on his debut during a League Cup tie at Middlesbrough on 31 August 1976 which Spurs won 2–1. On 4 September 1976 Moores made his Tottenham league debut at Old Trafford. Spurs trailed 2–0 at half-time, but second half strikes from Moores, Ralph Coates and John Pratt gave them a 3–2 win. However, he only scored twice more during the rest of that season, against Wrexham in the League Cup in September 1976 and against Sunderland in a 2–1 home defeat in November 1976. Spurs were relegated at the end of the season to Division Two.
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