Geoff Butler

Geoffrey Butler (born 26 September 1946) is a former professional footballer who played as a defender in The Football League between the 1960s and 1980s.^[1]

Key Information

Personal information
Full name	Geoffrey Butler
Date of birth	(1946-09-26) 26 September 1946 (age 78)
Place of birth	Middlesbrough, England
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1965–1967	Middlesbrough	55	(1)
1967	Chelsea	9	(0)
1967–1969	Sunderland	3	(0)
1969–1976	Norwich City	153	(1)
1974–1975	→ Baltimore Comets (loan)	40	(2)
1975–1981	AFC Bournemouth	119	(1)
1981–1982	Peterborough United	39	(0)
Total		418	(5)
Managerial career
1983–2000	Salisbury City
2002–2003	Weymouth
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
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He started out with his hometown club Middlesbrough and made 55 league appearances for them before a transfer to Chelsea in September 1967.^[2] He only made a total of nine appearances for Chelsea.^[3] He later played for Sunderland and Norwich City,^[1] and whilst at Norwich he played for the Baltimore Comets of the North American Soccer League in the 1974 and 1975 NASL summer seasons, making a total of 40 appearances.^[4] He also played for AFC Bournemouth.^[2] While at Norwich, he was a member of the team that reached the final of the League Cup in 1973.^[5]

In 1983, Butler was appointed as player/manager of Salisbury in the Southern League, later also becoming commercial manager.^[6]

In 1992, it was revealed that South Africa national team manager Jeff Butler had been sacked from his post for passing off Geoffrey Butler's playing career as his own.^[7]

1. ^ ^{a b} Geoff Butler at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
2. ^ ^{a b} Geoffrey Butler League Stats and 1973 photo at football-heroes. Sporting Heroes Photographic Encyclopedia. Retrieved on: 23 November 2010.
3. ^ Chelsea Player Database
4. ^ NASL stats at nasljerseys.com
5. ^ "1973 Football League Cup Final line-ups at soccerbase". Archived from the original on 27 November 2007. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
6. ^ The official centenary history of the Southern League. Paper Plane Publishing Ltd. 1993. p. 146. ISBN 1871872081.
7. ^ Hawkey, Ian (2009). Feet of the Chameleon : the Story of African Football. London: Pavilion Books Company Limited. ISBN 9781909396067. Retrieved 12 April 2020.

• Mike Davage, John Eastwood, Kevin Platt (2001). Canary Citizens. Jarrold Publishing. ISBN 0-7117-2020-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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