Robert Firth (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Robert Edwin Firth | ||
| Date of birth | 20 February 1887 | ||
| Place of birth | Sheldon, Birmingham, England | ||
| Date of death | 1966 (aged 78–79) | ||
| Playing position | Outside right | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Birmingham Corporation Transport | |||
| Golders Green | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1909–1911 | Birmingham | 25 | (2) |
| 1911 | Wellington Town | ||
| 1911–1921 | Nottingham Forest | 141 | (14) |
| 1921–1922 | Port Vale | 39 | (5) |
| 1922–1923 | Southend United | 37 | (1) |
| Total | 242 | (22) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1930–1932 | Racing de Santander | ||
| 1932–1934 | Real Madrid | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Robert Edwin Firth (20 February 1887 – 1966) was an English footballer who played for Birmingham, Wellington Town, Nottingham Forest, Port Vale, and Southend United. He scored 22 goals from 242 appearances in the Football League. He later coached Spanish La Liga teams Racing de Santander and Real Madrid, leading Santander to a second-place finish in 1930–31 and Madrid to two Campeonato Regional Centro titles and to a first-place finish in La Liga in 1932–33 and a second-place finish in 1933–34.
Firth played for Birmingham Corporation Transport and Golders Green before joining Birmingham. He played nine Second Division and FA Cup games in the 1909–10 season. He scored his first goal in the Football League on 10 December 1910, in a 1–0 win over Lincoln City at Sincil Bank, and went on to score two goals in 18 appearances in the 1910–11 campaign. After leaving St Andrew's he played for Wellington Town and Nottingham Forest, before joining Port Vale in June 1921 after serving in the Royal Field Artillery during the First World War. He claimed his first goal for the club on 29 August, in a 3–0 win over Clapton Orient at The Old Recreation Ground. He went on to score five goals in 39 Second Division games in the 1921–22 season, and was a member of the side which shared the North Staffordshire Infirmary Cup in 1922. However he was released at the end of the season and moved on to Southend United.
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