Personal information | |||
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Full name | Jeffrey Lawrence Hemmerman | ||
Date of birth | 25 February 1955 | ||
Place of birth | Hull, England | ||
Playing position | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
Hull City | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1973–1977 | Hull City | 59 | (10) |
1975 | → Scunthorpe United (loan) | 5 | (1) |
1977–1978 | Port Vale | 15 | (5) |
1978–1982 | Portsmouth | 123 | (39) |
1982–1983 | Cardiff City | 55 | (22) |
Total | 257 | (77) | |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Jeffrey Lawrence "Jeff" Hemmerman (born 25 February 1955) is an English former footballer. A forward, he scored 77 goals in 257 league games in a ten-year career in the Football League with Hull City, Scunthorpe United, Port Vale, Portsmouth, and Cardiff City. He was promoted out of the Fourth Division with Portsmouth in 1979–80, and then won promotion out of the Third Division with Cardiff City in 1982–83.
Hemmerman came through the youth ranks at Hull City as Terry Neill's "Tigers" ended the 1973–74 season in ninth place in the Second Division, and then went on to finish the 1974–75 season in eighth place under the stewardship of John Kaye. He was loaned out to Scunthorpe United in the 1975–76 campaign, and scored one goal in five Fourth Division games at the Old Showground. He was Hull's top-scorer in the 1976–77 season with seven goals. In total, he scored ten goals in 59 league games during his four seasons at Boothferry Park.