Stuart Housley

Stuart Housley
Personal information
Full name Stuart Housley
Date of birth (1948-09-15) 15 September 1948
Place of birth Doncaster, England
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Playing position Winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1966–1969 Grimsby Town 34 (3)
1969–1976 Yeovil Town
1976–197? Weymouth
197?–1979 Westland Sports
1979–1980 Yeovil Town
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Stuart Housley (born 15 September 1948) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger.[1]

After leaving Grimsby Town, Housley joined Southern League side Yeovil Town for whom he made 383 appearances and scored 58 goals in eight seasons.[2] Housley also spent a short spells playing for Weymouth and Westland Sports.[3][4] He returned to Yeovil in the 1990s under manager Graham Roberts and became the club's youth team manager a role he remained in until 2009. Housley worked with 13 managers at Yeovil, and spent 27 years involved with the club in various roles as a player, youth team coach and manager, kit man and video analyst, finally ending his association with the club in 2015.[3][5]

References

  1. ↑ Lamming, Douglas (1985). A who's who of Grimsby Town AFC : 1890-1985. Beverley: Hutton. p. 42. ISBN 0-907033-34-2.
  2. ↑ "GLOVERS NEWS: Yeovil Town legend Stuart Housley fights leukaemia". Yeovil Press. 18 October 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Housley calls it a day at Yeovil". CornwallLive. Local World. 24 July 2009. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  4. ↑ "Yeovil Town Story Part 36". Ciderspace (an independent Yeovil Town FC website). Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Shaftesbury Football Club's crisis outlined to council". SomersetLive. Local World. 14 October 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
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