Ken Wagstaff
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kenneth Wagstaff | ||
| Date of birth | 24 November 1942 | ||
| Place of birth | Langwith, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Mansfield Town | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1960–1964 | Mansfield Town | 181 | (93) |
| 1964–1976 | Hull City | 378 | (173) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Kenneth "Ken" Wagstaff (born 24 November 1942 in Langwith, Nottinghamshire) is an English former footballer noted for his playing career at Mansfield Town and Hull City football clubs. In 2000, club fans of both Mansfield Town and Hull City voted Wagstaff their club's player of the century – the only player to be named by two football league clubs. During club centenary celebrations in 2004 he was voted "The greatest player to play for Hull City AFC" by supporters. Amazingly once again he was voted for by both Mansfield and Hull City fans as "all-time favourite player". in 2007.
In 1960, as a 17-year-old, Wagstaff was signed by Mansfield Town F.C's then-manager Raich Carter after playing in Mansfield's youth league. Carter put him in the first team squad and he made his league debut on 30 August 1960. In his first game with Mansfield's first squad, the team won, scoring 2–1 over Rochdale. Wagstaff scored both Mansfield goals and he went on to score 93 goals over 181 appearances for Mansfield Town, attracting attention from larger clubs. On 12 November 1964, Hull City paid a then-record purchase fee of £40,000 for Wagstaff.
Wagstaff scored 31 goals in the promotion season and went on to score 173 goals for Hull City in 378 appearances.
Wagstaff played for Hull City between 1964 and 1975, scoring 197 goals for the club. In the 1970s, Wagstaff joined the Sunshine George Cross Football Club in Melbourne Australia as a player-coach. After a career-ending knee injury, Wagstaff spent a short period on the club's coaching staff.
In November 2002, Wagstaff celebrated his 60th birthday at the Ramada Jarvis Hotel in Willerby with 350 friends, including players from the Hull City 1965–66 Third Division championship team.
Author John Maffin wrote a biography about Wagstaff, Waggy: The Ken Wagstaff Story. Wagstaff co-operated with the author and the book was published in 2002 with a second edition published in 2004.
In 2005, as part of Hull City's club centenary celebrations, Wagstaff was voted by supporters as the "best Hull City player of all time".
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