Peter Withe
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Peter Withe | ||
| Date of birth | 30 August 1951 | ||
| Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1971 | Southport | 3 | (0) |
| 1971–1972 | Barrow | 1 | (0) |
| 1972–1973 | Port Elizabeth City | ||
| 1973 | Arcadia Shepherds | 26 | (16) |
| 1973–1975 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 17 | (3) |
| 1975 | Portland Timbers | 22 | (16) |
| 1975–1976 | Birmingham City | 35 | (9) |
| 1976–1978 | Nottingham Forest | 75 | (28) |
| 1978–1980 | Newcastle United | 76 | (25) |
| 1980–1985 | Aston Villa | 182 | (74) |
| 1985–1989 | Sheffield United | 74 | (18) |
| 1987 | → Birmingham City (loan) | 8 | (2) |
| 1989–1990 | Huddersfield Town | 38 | (1) |
| 1991 | Aston Villa | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 539 | (177) | |
| National team | |||
| 1981–1984 | England | 11 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1991 | Wimbledon | ||
| 1998–2003 | Thailand | ||
| 2004–2007 | Indonesia | ||
| 2012 |
Woodley Sports/ (renamed in 2012) |
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| 2013–2014 | PTT Rayong | ||
| 2014–2016 | Nakhon Pathom United | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Peter Withe /wɪð/ (born 30 August 1951 in Liverpool) is a much-travelled English footballer who played as a striker between 1971 and 1990. He has also worked as a manager, predominantly in south-east Asia.
The highlights of his career came at Aston Villa, where he was a key player in the Football League title triumph of 1980–81 and scored his side's only goal in their 1982 European Cup Final victory.
His brother, Chris, played for Bradford City.
During the summer of 1975, Withe spent one season in the United States as a member of the expansion Portland Timbers of the North American Soccer League (NASL). The lynchpin of a strong attack, the big bearded Liverpudlian scored 17 goals and added 7 assists in 22 games to lead the Timbers to first place in their division and a tie for the best record in the league at 16–6. Withe's knack for scoring goals that summer made him a favourite of the Portland supporters, who nicknamed him "The Mad Header" and "The Wizard of Nod." In August the Timbers played two home play-off games in front of more than 30,000 fans each, numbers unheard of for US soccer at the time. They advanced to Soccer Bowl '75, the League Championship, in San Jose, California on August 24, where they lost to the Tampa Bay Rowdies 2–0.
Withe won the Football League First Division championship with Nottingham Forest but then left in 1978 to join Newcastle United, then in the Second Division for a transfer fee of £225,000. The Magpies were Withe's ninth club in less than eight years.
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