Steve Heighway
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Stephen Derek Heighway | ||
| Date of birth | 25 November 1947 | ||
| Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland | ||
| Playing position | Winger | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Skelmersdale United | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1970–1981 | Liverpool | 329 | (50) |
| 1981 | Minnesota Kicks | 26 | (4) |
| 1981–1982 | Philadelphia Fever (indoor) | 23 | (3) |
| National team | |||
| 1970–1981 | Republic of Ireland | 34 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Stephen Derek "Steve" Heighway (born 25 November 1947) is an Irish former footballer who was part of the hugely successful Liverpool team of the 1970s. Regarded as one of the greatest ever Liverpool players, he was ranked 23rd in the 100 Players Who Shook The Kop poll.
Heighway became academy director at Liverpool in a period when the club brought through such players as Steven Gerrard, Ryan Flynn and Jamie Carragher. He retired in 2007 but later rejoined the Liverpool academy a consultancy role which he currently holds.
Though he was born in Dublin, Ireland, some of Steve's early education took place in Sheffield where he attended Ecclesall Junior School (until 1959) followed by High Storrs School, and latterly Moseley Hall Grammar School for Boys in Cheadle, near .
Heighway's early promise as a winger was not spotted by professional clubs as he reached his adolescence and therefore, as a bright lad, he concentrated on his studies and played in the non-league game while completing a degree in economics and politics at the University of Warwick in Coventry (where he started in 1966), and achieved a 2:1.
In 1970, Heighway was studying for his final exams and playing for Skelmersdale United when he was spotted by Liverpool's scouting system. With manager Bill Shankly keen to rebuild his ageing, underachieving team of the 1960s completely, Heighway was signed up swiftly in the May of '70. It was due to Heighway's academic achievements that he got his nickname 'Big Bamber', team-mate and fellow academic Brian Hall was dubbed 'Little Bamber' both after the television programme University Challenge host Bamber Gascoigne.
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