Dave Leworthy

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David Leworthy
Personal information
Date of birth (1962-10-22) 22 October 1962 (age 61)
Place of birth Portsmouth, England
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1981–1982 Portsmouth 1 (0)
1982–1984 Fareham Town 84 (44)
1984–1985 Tottenham Hotspur 11 (5)
1985–1989 Oxford United 31 (9)
1987–1988 → Shrewsbury Town (loan) 6 (3)
1989–1992 Reading 27 (8)
1991 → Colchester United (loan) 9 (4)
1991–1993 Farnborough Town 71 (64)
1993–1997 Dover Athletic 152 (86)
1997 Rushden & Diamonds 18 (8)
1997–2000 Kingstonian 132 (66)
2000–2003 Havant & Waterlooville 49 (26)
2006 Kingstonian
Managerial career
1995 Dover Athletic (joint caretaker)
2004 Havant & Waterlooville
2007–2008 Banstead Athletic
2008–2009 Croydon (joint)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:30, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

David Leworthy (born 22 October 1962) is a retired English footballer who played as a centre forward.

Career

Leworthy started his career with his hometown club Portsmouth. After spending 9 years with Pompey, from the age of 10, he moved to Non-League Fareham Town where his prolific goalscoring record there earned him a dream move to Tottenham Hotspur. Leworthy made his Spurs debut in the North London derby, against arch rivals Arsenal, that ended in a 2–0 defeat at White Hart Lane in front of a crowd of 40,399 on 17 April 1985. He played alongside the likes of Glenn Hoddle, Ossie Ardillies, Graham Roberts and Steve Perryman and went on to make a further ten appearances in total, scoring 4 goals.[citation needed]

In December 1985, Leworthy moved to fellow First Division side Oxford Utd for a transfer fee of £200,000. He spent 4 years at the club and made 37 appearances, scoring 8 goals - most notably against Manchester United. Following a loan spell at Shrewsbury Town, he then moved to Reading in 1989 where he would spend 3 years. He was loaned to Colchester Utd towards the end of the 1990/1991 season, scoring 4 goals in 9 appearances and helping the U's to a 2nd-place finish in the Vauxhall Conference as runners-up to Barnet.[citation needed]

Leworthy returned to the Vauxhall Conference the following season with

Dover Athletic in a move that saw the non-league transfer record broken when the Kent club paid £50,000 for his services. Leworthy continued his prolific goalscoring exploits at Crabble and scored 86 times in a total of 158 appearances. He netted all four goals in Dover's 4–3 win over Woking in February 1996 and, ironically, netted a hat-trick in the very same fixture the following season, just seven months later, which ended in 5–1 victory for Dover in September 1996.[citation needed
]

In January 1997 Leworthy moved to fellow

Football Conference side Rushden & Diamonds for a fee of £15,000, and his goals in the final 4 months of the season, including a debut goal against his former club Farnborough Town, helped ease the club away from the relegation zone and into a midtable finish.[2] However, his stay at Rushden didn't last long, and at the end of the season he moved to South-West London club Kingstonian for a club record fee of £18,000.[3][4] Leworthy was part of the Kingstonian side that celebrated two consecutive FA Trophy wins at Wembley Stadium in 1999 and 2000.[citation needed
]

Leworthy's career began to draw to a close with a period at Conference South club

Havant & Waterlooville that included a spell as manager.[5]

Leworthy came out of retirement in 2006 for a brief second spell at

Combined Counties League Premier Division in December 2007. He left Banstead in October 2008[6] and became joint manager of Croydon alongside Peter Thomas in November. Peter Thomas left the club in January the following year.[7]

Leworthy is now long retired from the game but still supports his hometown club Portsmouth.

Honours

Club

Colchester United[8]
  • Football Conference
    Runner-up (1): 1990–91
Kingstonian[9][10]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5
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  2. ^ "David Leworthy Profile on the Rushden & Diamonds Official Website". Archived from the original on 1 June 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
  3. ^ "Official Dover Athletic Football Club – News". Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
  4. ^ Football: Non-League notebook
  5. ^ David Leworthy Archived 15 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine Havant & Waterlooville F.C.
  6. ^ "Leworthy quits as Banstead Athletic boss | This is Surrey". Archived from the original on 14 September 2012.
  7. ^ Gill defends Robbins sacking Wandsworth Guardian, 2 September 2009
  8. ^ "Conference Honours". Coludaybyday.co.uk.
  9. ^ "FA Trophy Honours". Coludaybyday.co.uk.
  10. ^ "Other Award – Non League Honours". Coludaybyday.co.uk.

External links

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