Stan Collymore
Collymore (centre, white shirt) playing for Fulham against Yeovil Town in 1999
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Stanley Victor Collymore | ||
| Date of birth | 22 January 1971 | ||
| Place of birth | Stone, Staffordshire, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1988–1989 | Walsall | ||
| 1989–1990 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1990 | Stafford Rangers | - | (-) |
| 1990–1992 | Crystal Palace | 20 | (1) |
| 1992–1993 | Southend United | 30 | (15) |
| 1993–1995 | Nottingham Forest | 65 | (41) |
| 1995–1997 | Liverpool | 64 | (28) |
| 1997–2000 | Aston Villa | 46 | (7) |
| 1999 | → Fulham (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2000 | Leicester City | 11 | (5) |
| 2000–2001 | Bradford City | 7 | (2) |
| 2001 | Real Oviedo | 3 | (0) |
| Total | 252 | (99) | |
| National team | |||
| 1995–1997 | England | 3 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Stanley Victor "Stan" Collymore (born 22 January 1971) is an English former footballer who played as a centre-forward from 1990 to 2001. He held the English transfer record when he moved from Nottingham Forest to Liverpool for £8.5 million in 1995 and was capped three times at senior level by the England national football team. He is currently a football pundit.
Collymore was born in Stone, Staffordshire. As a young boy he supported Aston Villa. A centre forward, Collymore played junior football for Cannock Peelers and Penkridge Juniors before starting his career as an apprentice footballer with Walsall, and also Wolverhampton Wanderers, before being released and signing for then Conference team, Stafford Rangers. It was there he caught the eye of several football league clubs by demonstrating the ability to score spectacular goals before being given his chance as a full-time professional with Crystal Palace at the age of 19, when he signed for them in December 1990.
After nearly two years of learning his trade as understudy to the prolific Crystal Palace partnership of Mark Bright and Ian Wright, Collymore dropped down a division in the autumn of 1992 to sign for Southend United and there scored 18 goals in 31 games to help keep the club in Division One (now Championship) when relegation had seemed likely.
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