Burnley FC Youth Academy – Part 3
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 51 to 75, players who debuted for the first team from 1963 to 1972.
No | Name | Debut | Last Game | League | Cups | Total | |||||
Opponents | Date | Opponents | Date | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
51 | Fred Smith | Stoke City (a) | 02/11/1963 | Wolverhampton Wanderers (h) | 10/01/1970 | 84 | 1 | 22+1 | 0 | 106+1 | 1 |
52 | Sammy Todd | Tottenham Hotspur (h) | 21/04/1964 | Leeds United (a) | 04/04/1970 | 108+8 | 1 | 10+2 | 0 | 118+10 | 1 |
53 | Ralph Coates | Sheffield United (h) | 19/12/1964 | Wolverhampton Wanderers (a) | 01/05/1971 | 214+2 | 26 | 43+2 | 6 | 257+4 | 32 |
54 | Les Latcham | Manchester United (a) | 13/02/1965 | Derby County (h) | 24/04/1971 | 149+4 | 10 | 29+2 | 2 | 178+6 | 12 |
55 | Dave Merrington | Chelsea (h) | 24/04/1965 | Manchester United (a) | 16/01/1971 | 96+2 | 1 | 27+1 | 1 | 123+3 | 2 |
56 | Len Kinsella | Aston Villa (h) | 20/11/1965 | Stoke City (h) | 27/03/1970 | 7+6 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 7+7 | 9 |
57 | John Murray | Leicester City (a) | 05/11/1966 | Liverpool (h) | 26/12/1969 | 20+2 | 6 | 4+1 | 4 | 24+3 | 10 |
58 | Colin Blant | Shrewsbury Town (a) | 02/09/1966 | Coventry City (h) | 15/11/1969 | 46+7 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 55+7 | 9 |
59 | Ray Ternent | Southampton (a) | 08/04/1967 | Huddersfield Town (h) | 14/12/1970 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
60 | Stan Ternent | Sheffield Wednesday (a) | 06/05/1967 | Southampton (a) | 28/10/1967 | 5 | 0 | – | – | 5 | 0 |
61 | Dave Thomas | Everton (h) | 13/05/1967 | Luton Town (a) | 30/09/1972 | 153+4 | 19 | 22 | 4 | 175+4 | 23 |
62 | Peter Jones | Everton (a) | 13/08/1968 | Manchester United (a) | 22/10/1969 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
63 | Willie Brown | West Bromwich Albion (a) | 24/08/1968 | West Bromwich Albion (a) | 24/08/1968 | 0+1 | 0 | – | – | 0+1 | 0 |
64 | Steve Kindon | West Ham United (a) | 26/08/1968 | Orient (h) | 03/11/1979 | 175+10 | 46 | 37+3 | 12 | 212+13 | 58 |
65 | Wilf Wrigley | Sunderland (a) | 23/11/1968 | Stoke City (h) | 27/03/1970 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
66 | Eric Probert | Arsenal (h) | 30/11/1968 | Portsmouth (h) | 20/03/1970 | 62+5 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 67+5 | 11 |
67 | Mick Docherty | Stoke City (h) | 14/12/1968 | Norwich City (a) | 19/01/1976 | 149+4 | 0 | 19+2 | 1 | 168+6 | 1 |
68 | Alan West | Stoke City (h) | 27/03/1970 | Orient (h) | 11/11/1972 | 41+4 | 3 | 6+2 | 0 | 47+6 | 3 |
69 | Eddie Cliff | Southampton (a) | 24/10/1970 | Oxford United (a) | 20/04/1973 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
70 | Leighton James | Nottingham Forest (h) | 21/11/1970 | Scarborough (h) | 13/05/1989 | 331+5 | 66 | 62+1 | 15 | 393+6 | 81 |
71 | Ronnie Welch | Newcastle United (h) | 30/01/1971 | Newcastle United (h) | 30/01/1971 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 |
72 | Harry Wilson | Chelsea (a) | 26/04/1971 | Sunderland (a) | 03/04/1972 | 12 | 0 | – | – | 12 | 0 |
73 | Jeff Parton | Watford (a) | 20/11/1971 | Manchester United (a) | 03/04/1974 | 3 | 0 | – | – | 3 | 0 |
74 | Billy Ingham | Hull City (h) | 12/02/1972 | Watford (a) | 03/05/1980 | 181+30 | 22 | 52+3 | 9 | 233+33 | 31 |
75 | Billy Rodaway | Preston North End (h) | 25/04/1972 | Orient (h) | 09/05/1987 | 245+2 | 3 | 56 | 0 | 301+2 | 3 |
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