Phil Babb
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Philip Andrew Babb | ||
| Date of birth | 30 November 1970 | ||
| Place of birth | Lambeth, England | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1989 | Millwall | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1989–1992 | Bradford City | 80 | (14) |
| 1992–1994 | Coventry City | 77 | (3) |
| 1994–2000 | Liverpool | 128 | (1) |
| 2000 | → Tranmere Rovers (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2000–2002 | Sporting CP | 37 | (0) |
| 2002–2004 | Sunderland | 48 | (0) |
| Total | 374 | (18) | |
| National team | |||
| 1994–2002 | Republic of Ireland | 35 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2013–2015 | Hayes & Yeading United | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Philip Andrew "Phil" Babb (born 30 November 1970) is a former professional footballer who played as a central defender.
He made over 370 league appearances during his career, most notably spending six Premier League seasons with Liverpool, and also playing in the top flight for Coventry City and Sunderland. He also played in Portugal for Sporting Clube de Portugal and in the Football League for Bradford City and Tranmere Rovers.
Babb represented the Republic of Ireland at the 1994 World Cup, playing in 35 internationals.
Born in Lambeth, London, Babb came through the youth ranks of Millwall, before beginning his senior career in 1990 with Bradford City. He moved to Coventry City in July 1992 for a fee of £500,000, where he spent two seasons before moving to Liverpool on 1 September 1994 for £3.6million, which made him the most expensive defender in Britain at the time.
Babb only scored once during six Premier League years and 170 appearances in all competitions for Liverpool, incidentally against his former club, Coventry, in September 1996. Whilst at Liverpool he played in the victorious 1995 Football League Cup Final. After a brief loan spell at Tranmere Rovers, he moved to Portugal with Sporting Clube de Portugal on a free transfer in 2000, appearing in 38 official games in his second season – one goal against FC Midtjylland in the UEFA Cup (3–0 away win, 6–2 on aggregate)– as the Lions conquered both the league and the domestic cup.
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