Steve Phillips (footballer, born 1954)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Steven Edward Phillips | ||
| Date of birth | 4 August 1954 | ||
| Place of birth | Edmonton, England | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1970–1971 | Birmingham City | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1971–1975 | Birmingham City | 20 | (1) |
| 1974–1975 | → Torquay United (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 1975–1977 | Northampton Town | 51 | (9) |
| 1977–1980 | Brentford | 157 | (65) |
| 1980–1982 | Northampton Town | 75 | (29) |
| 1982–1986 | Southend United | 158 | (66) |
| 1986 | → Torquay United (loan) | 32 | (11) |
| 1986–1988 | Peterborough United | 48 | (16) |
| 1987 | → Exeter City (loan) | 6 | (1) |
| 1988 | → Chesterfield (loan) | 9 | (2) |
| 1988–19?? | Stamford | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Steven Edward Phillips (born 4 August 1954) is an English former professional footballer who had a long career as a forward for a number of teams in the Football League in the 1970s and 1980s. He scored 200 goals from 562 league appearances.
Phillips was born in Edmonton, London. He began his football career as an apprentice with Birmingham City, turning professional in August 1971. His first-team debut, as a substitute in the 3–2 defeat of Carlisle United in the Football League Second Division, came the same month, at the age of 17 years 17 days, which made him at the time the club's second-youngest debutant. He played six more games in the starting eleven before losing his place; the arrival of Bob Hatton in October meant he failed to regain it. Birmingham's promotion to the First Division, and the establishment of Hatton, Bob Latchford and Trevor Francis as the forward line of choice, gave Phillips few opportunities in the first team, though he did score his first goal, in a 4–2 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur in February 1974. After a spell on loan at Torquay United, Phillips joined Fourth Division club Northampton Town in October 1975 for a fee of £5,000.
Phillips scored nine goals from his 51 league appearances for Northampton before moving on to Brentford in February 1977. In his first full season at Brentford, Phillips finished as the Football League's leading scorer with 32 goals, and his partnership with Andrew McCulloch made a major contribution to the club's promotion to the Third Division. Phillips scored 65 goals from 157 league appearances for Brentford, before they sold him to former club Northampton Town in August 1980 for a fee of £40,000. He scored 29 goals from 75 league games in this spell at the club, form which led to his inclusion in the PFA Fourth Division Team of the Year for the 1980–81 season.
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