Mark Smith (footballer born 1960)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mark Craig Smith | ||
| Date of birth | 21 March 1960 | ||
| Place of birth | Sheffield, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1977–1987 | Sheffield Wednesday | 282 | (16) |
| 1987–1990 | Plymouth Argyle | 82 | (6) |
| 1990–1992 | Barnsley | 104 | (10) |
| 1992–1993 | Notts County | 5 | (0) |
| 1992 | → Port Vale (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 1993 | → Huddersfield Town (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 1993 | → Chesterfield (loan) | 6 | (1) |
| 1993–1994 | Lincoln City | 20 | (1) |
| Total | 510 | (34) | |
| National team | |||
| 1981–1982 | England U21 | 5 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1996–1997 | Notts County (caretaker) | ||
| 2004 | Sheffield Wednesday (caretaker) | ||
| 2015 | Chesterfield (caretaker) | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Mark Craig Smith (born 21 March 1960) is an English former professional footballer who is now a youth team coach at Chesterfield.
An England under-21 international, he posted 510 league appearances in a seventeen-year career in the Football League. He spent the first ten years of his career at Sheffield Wednesday, and by the time he left for Plymouth Argyle in 1987 he had made 282 league appearances for Wednesday. During his time in Sheffield, Wednesday twice won promotion and twice appeared in the FA Cup semi-finals. He switched to Barnsley in 1990, before he signed with Notts County in 1992. He was loaned out to Port Vale, Huddersfield Town and Chesterfield, before he finished his career at Lincoln City in 1994. He then began work as a coach at various clubs, which included a one-game stint in charge of Sheffield Wednesday in 2004, in a caretaker manager capacity. He then returned to coaching, and also worked as caretaker-manager of Chesterfield in November 2015.
A local boy from Shirecliffe, Smith developed through the ranks and into the first team with Sheffield Wednesday in 1977. He was renowned for his prowess from the penalty spot, achieving a club record eleven successful penalty conversions in the 1979–80 season. During his time at Hillsborough, the club won promotion out of the Third Division in 1979–80 (a campaign in which Smith was named in the PFA Team of the Year), and were promoted out of the Second Division in 1983–84. Wednesday also reached the FA Cup semi-finals in 1982–83 and 1985–86, and posted a fifth-place finish in the First Division in 1985–86. Smith played a total of 282 league games for Wednesday during his ten years at Hillsborough, playing under Jack Charlton and then Howard Wilkinson. He was voted the club's Player of the Year in 1981.
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