Burnley FC Youth Academy – Part 2
For many years Burnley’s youth system was the envy of the football world as player after player came off the conveyor belt to play first team football.
Never was it more evident than in 1960 when Burnley were crowned Football League Champions for the second time in the club’s history. The championship winning season saw only three players feature who had been signed from other clubs, and none had played for other Football League clubs.
The club continue to confirm that the emphasis is very much on youth and bringing players through the system into the first team.
Burnley Football Club officially recognises that the first players to come through the youth system to the first team were Tommy Lawton and Ken Ashbridge in the 1935/36 season.
This feature will show all those from 1936 to the current date who have graduated through the youth system at Burnley Football Club and gone on to play for the first team.
Below are numbers 26 to 50, players who debuted for the first team from 1956 to 1963.
No | Name | Debut | Last Game | League | Cups | Total | |||||
Opponents | Date | Opponents | Date | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
26 | Brian Miller | Chelsea (h) | 01/02/1956 | Aston Villa (a) | 22/04/1967 | 379 | 29 | 76 | 8 | 455 | 37 |
27 | John Angus | Everton (h) | 03/09/1956 | Luton Town (h) | 21/08/1971 | 438(1) | 4 | 82 | 0 | 520(1) | 4 |
28 | Jimmy Robson | Blackpool (h) | 06/10/1956 | West Bromwich Albion (h) | 06/02/1965 | 202 | 79 | 40 | 21 | 262 | 100 |
29 | Adam Blacklaw | Cardiff City (h) | 22/12/1956 | Stoke City (a) | 27/12/1966 | 318 | 0 | 65 | 0 | 383 | 0 |
30 | Des Lancaster | Birmingham City (a) | 29/12/1956 | Birmingham City (a) | 29/12/1956 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 |
31 | Ian Lawson | Chesterfield (h) | 05/01/1957 | West Ham United (a) | 29/04/1961 | 23 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 35 | 15 |
32 | Alan Shackleton | Aston Villa (a) | 06/03/1957 | Birmingham City (a) | 13/09/1958 | 31 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 18 |
33 | John Connelly | Leeds United (a) | 11/03/1957 | Liverpool (h) | 14/04/1964 | 215 | 86 | 50 | 19 | 265 | 105 |
34 | Ray Pointer | Luton Town (a) | 05/10/1957 | Sunderland (a) | 14/11/1964 | 223 | 118 | 47 | 15 | 270 | 133 |
35 | Billy White | West Bromwich Albion (a) | 28/12/1957 | Brentford (a) | 22/11/1960 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 4 |
36 | John Talbut | Leicester City (a) | 26/12/1958 | Leicester City (a) | 05/11/1966 | 138 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 160 | 1 |
37 | Gordon Harris | Leeds United (h) | 03/01/1959 | Everton (h) | 30/12/1967 | 258 | 69 | 55 | 12 | 313 | 81 |
38 | Jim Furnell | Blackpool (a) | 23/04/1960 | Bolton Wanderers (a) | 22/08/1962 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
39 | Walter Joyce | Manchester City (a) | 24/08/1960 | Nottingham Forest (h) | 07/12/1963 | 70 | 3 | 19 | 0 | 89 | 0 |
40 | Andy Lochhead | Manchester City (h) | 30/08/1960 | Liverpool (h) | 05/10/1968 | 225(1) | 101 | 40 | 27 | 265(1) | 128 |
41 | Ronnie Fenton | Cardiff City (a) | 24/10/1960 | Bolton Wanderers (a) | 11/04/1962 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 3 |
42 | David Walker | Brentford (a) | 22/11/1960 | Leeds United (a) | 15/03/1965 | 38 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 1 |
43 | Ian Towers | Birmingham City (a) | 27/04/1961 | Doncaster Rovers (a) | 22/09/1965 | 43(1) | 12 | 7 | 2 | 50(1) | 14 |
44 | Peter Simpson | Sheffield Wednesday (a) | 30/04/1962 | Manchester United (h) | 04/05/1963 | 3 | 0 | – | – | 3 | 0 |
45 | Arthur Bellamy | Manchester City (a) | 26/03/1963 | Sunderland (a) | 03/04/1972 | 204(13) | 29 | 32(1) | 0 | 236(14) | 29 |
46 | Mick Buxton | Blackburn Rovers (h) | 02/04/1963 | West Ham United (h) | 29/08/1967 | 16(2) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 17(2) | 0 |
47 | Willie Morgan | Sheffield Wednesday (a) | 23/04/1963 | Blackpool (a) | 03/01/1976 | 195(1) | 19 | 36 | 3 | 231(1) | 22 |
48 | Brian O’Neil | West Bromwich Albion (h) | 30/04/1963 | Leeds United (a) | 04/04/1970 | 231(4) | 22 | 46(1) | 3 | 277(5) | 25 |
49 | Willie Irvine | Arsenal (a) | 11/05/1963 | Nottingham Forest (a) | 24/02/1968 | 124(2) | 78 | 20(2) | 19 | 144(4) | 97 |
50 | Johnny Price | West Ham United (a) | 07/10/1963 | Everton (a) | 02/01/1965 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 2 |
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