Max Thompson (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Maxwell Stuart Thompson | ||
| Date of birth | 31 December 1956 | ||
| Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||
| Playing position | Central defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Liverpool | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1973–1977 | Liverpool | 1 | (0) |
| 1977–1981 | Blackpool | 99 | (6) |
| 1977 | → Dallas Tornado (loan) | 21 | (2) |
| 1978 | → Dallas Tornado (loan) | 22 | (2) |
| 1980 | → Seattle Sounders (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 1981–1983 | Swansea City | 26 | (2) |
| 1983 | Bournemouth | 9 | (0) |
| 1983 | → Port Vale (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 1983–1985 | Baltimore Blast | 39 | (6) |
| Académica de Coimbra | |||
| Northwich Victoria | |||
| Caernarfon Town | |||
| Fleetwood | |||
| Newport County | |||
| Kramfors | |||
| 1989–1992 | Southport | 5 | (0) |
| Total | 229+ | (18+) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| Knowsley United | |||
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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.
Maxwell Stuart "Max" Thompson (born 31 December 1956) is an English former footballer. A defender, he scored eight goals in 137 league games in a ten-year career in the Football League. At age 17 years and 128 days, he became Liverpool's youngest ever player (his record has since been broken) when he made his debut in May 1974. He joined Blackpool three years later, and went on to play 99 league games for the club in a four-year spell, and was also loaned out to Dallas Tornado and Seattle Sounders. He then spent the 1980s with various clubs across the world: Bournemouth, Port Vale, Baltimore Blast (USA), Académica de Coimbra (Portugal), Northwich Victoria, Caernarfon Town, Fleetwood, Newport County, Kramfors (Sweden), and Southport. He later worked at Anfield as a physiotherapist.
Thompson started his career with Liverpool and broke the club record for being the youngest player to appear for Liverpool, when Bill Shankly handed him his First Division debut at the end of the 1973–74 season against Tottenham Hotspur on 8 May 1974, at the age of 17 years and 128 days. His record was broken by Jack Robinson, who made his debut for Liverpool at the age of 16. Thompson was on the substitutes bench at Wembley in the 1974 FA Charity Shield victory over Leeds United. He never made it onto the pitch though under Bob Paisley in the 1974–75, 1975–76, and 1977–78 campaigns.
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