Paul Maguire (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Paul Edward Maguire | ||
| Date of birth | 21 August 1956 | ||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Kilbirnie Ladeside | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1976–1980 | Shrewsbury Town | 151 | (35) |
| 1980–1984 | Stoke City | 107 | (24) |
| 1984–1985 | Tacoma Stars (indoor) | 29 | (12) |
| 1985–1988 | Port Vale | 115 | (22) |
| Northwich Victoria | |||
| Total | 402+ | (93+) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| Northwich Victoria (caretaker) | |||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Paul Edward Maguire (born 21 August 1956) is a Scottish former footballer who scored 81 goals in 373 league appearances in the Football League. He played in all four divisions of the Football League, as well as the Football Conference and the Major Indoor Soccer League.
He began his career with Shrewsbury Town in 1976, and made over 150 appearances over the next four years with the club, helping them to the Third Division title in 1978–79. He was sold on to First Division club Stoke City for £262,000 in 1980. He spent four season at the Victoria Ground and made his most telling contribution in his last match for the club, scoring all the goals in a 4–0 win against Wolverhampton Wanderers on the final day of the 1983–84 season. He spent 1984–85 in the United States with the Tacoma Stars, before joining Port Vale in June 1985. He helped the club to win promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1985–86, before he moved on to non-league club Northwich Victoria in May 1988.
Originally at Scottish Junior club Kilbirnie Ladeside, Maguire joined Shrewsbury Town in 1976. The "Shrews" finished tenth and eleventh in the Third Division in 1976–77 and 1977–78 under Alan Durban's stewardship. Graham Turner then led the club to the top of the table in 1978–79, though they had finished just two points above fourth place Gillingham. A 13th-place finish in the Second Division followed in 1979–80. Maguire featured in the 1980 Welsh Cup Final, which ended in a 5–1 aggregate defeat to Newport County. By then he already had two Welsh Cup winner's medals to his name, after playing in a 5–1 aggregate win over Cardiff City in 1977, and a 2–1 aggregate win over Wrexham in 1979. He scored 35 goals in 151 league games in his four years at Gay Meadow.
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