Kevin Phillips (footballer)
Phillips as a coach of Leicester City in December 2014
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kevin Mark Phillips | ||
| Date of birth | 25 July 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1985–1991 | Southampton | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1991–1994 | Baldock Town | ||
| 1994–1997 | Watford | 59 | (24) |
| 1997–2003 | Sunderland | 208 | (113) |
| 2003–2005 | Southampton | 64 | (22) |
| 2005–2006 | Aston Villa | 23 | (4) |
| 2006–2008 | West Bromwich Albion | 71 | (38) |
| 2008–2011 | Birmingham City | 69 | (19) |
| 2011–2013 | Blackpool | 56 | (18) |
| 2013 | → Crystal Palace (loan) | 14 | (6) |
| 2013–2014 | Crystal Palace | 4 | (0) |
| 2014 | Leicester City | 12 | (2) |
| Total | 580 | (246) | |
| National team | |||
| 1998 | England B | 1 | (0) |
| 1999–2002 | England | 8 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Kevin Mark Phillips (born 25 July 1973) is a retired English professional footballer and current assistant coach at Derby County.
Phillips was the Premier League top scorer in the 1999–2000 season with 30 goals for Sunderland, a tally which won him the European Golden Shoe. He remains the only Englishman to win the trophy. He also had spells at Watford, Southampton, Aston Villa, West Bromwich Albion, Birmingham City, Blackpool, Crystal Palace and Leicester City.
Phillips was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. He started his footballing career as a trainee with Southampton, where he spent six years, four as a schoolboy, before being taken on as an apprentice in 1989. As a youth, Phillips was considered to be too small to play up front and was played at right back, in which position he made two reserve team appearances in 1990. He failed to make the grade at Southampton and was released by manager Chris Nicholl, and returned to Hertfordshire where he signed for non-League semi-professional side Baldock Town in the summer of 1991.
At Baldock Town, he was initially played as a defender until an injury crisis resulted in manager Ian Allinson playing Phillips as a striker, scoring twice in his first match in his new role. He was signed by Watford in December 1994 for an initial £10,000, plus four additional payments of £5,000.
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