Eddie Quigley

Edward Quigley (13 July 1921 – 18 April 1997) was an English football player and manager.

Eddie Quigley
Personal information
Full name Edward Quigley
Date of birth (1921-07-13)13 July 1921
Place of birth Bury, Lancashire
Date of death April 18, 1997(1997-04-18) (aged 75)
Playing position(s) Centre Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Bury
Sheffield Wednesday
Preston North End
Blackburn Rovers
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

He was born in Bury, Lancashire,[1] the son of Edward and Martha (née Rowley) Quigley.

He scored 179 goals from 337 appearances in the Football League playing as a centre-forward for Bury, Sheffield Wednesday, Preston North End and Blackburn Rovers in the post World War II era.[2] He was transferred from Sheffield Wednesday to Preston for a fee of £26,500, which was at the time a British transfer record.[1]

He re-signed for Bury in 1956 where he made ten League appearances before retiring from League football at the end of the 1956–57 season.[3]

He joined Mossley as player-manager in the summer of 1957. Over the next six seasons he appeared 197 times for the club scoring 56 goals, before retiring from playing when he left the club in 1962, aged 41.[3]

He then returned to Bury as a youth-team coach.[3]

In April 1967, after a brief spell as caretaker manager at Blackburn, Quigley was confirmed in the position on a permanent basis.[1] In October 1970, he was replaced by Johnny Carey and became chief scout. He and Carey were both sacked on 7 June 1971.[4]

He later managed Stockport County.[1]

He died in Blackpool in 1997 at the age of 75.[1]

References
  1. Ponting, Ivan (23 April 1997). "Obituary: Eddie Quigley". The Independent. Retrieved 20 May 2009.
  2. "Birmingham City : 1947/48 – 2007/08". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 19 May 2009.
  3. "Complete A-Z of Mossley Players". Mossley Web. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  4. "Blackburn Sack Carey". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 7 June 1971. p. 31. Retrieved 23 November 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.


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