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This article is about the English international footballer. For other people, see Tony Adams (disambiguation).

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Tony Adams
MBE
Personal information
\n Adams in 2017
Full name	\nTony Alexander Adams^[1]
Date of birth	\n (1966-10-10) 10 October 1966 (age 58)^[1]
Place of birth	\nRomford, London, England
Height	\n6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)^[1]
Position(s)	\nCentre-back
Youth career
1980\u20131983	\nArsenal
Senior career\"
Years	\nTeam	\nApps	\n(Gls)
1983\u20132002	\nArsenal	\n504	\n(32)
International career
1983\u20131984	\nEngland U17	\n13	\n(5)
1985	\nEngland Youth	\n1	\n(0)
1985\u20131986	\nEngland U21	\n5	\n(1)
1987\u20132000	\nEngland	\n66	\n(5)
Managerial career
2003\u20132004	\nWycombe Wanderers
2008\u20132009	\nPortsmouth
2010\u20132011	\nGabala
2017	\nGranada
\n\"Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tony Alexander Adams MBE (born 10 October 1966) is an English former football manager and player. Adams played for Arsenal and England, captaining both teams. Known as Mr. Arsenal, he spent his entire playing career of 19 years as a centre-back there, making 672 total appearances and winning four English league titles. He is considered one of Arsenal's greatest ever players,^[2] and is also included in the Football League 100 Legends.\n

With Arsenal, he won four top flight division titles, uniquely captaining a title-winning team in three different decades, three FA Cups, two Football League Cups, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and two FA Community Shields.^[3] Adams is one of six people honoured with a statue outside the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal's home ground. He won 66 caps for England between 1987 and 2000, and played at four major tournaments.\n

When his playing career finished, Adams went into football management, spending periods in charge of Wycombe Wanderers, Portsmouth, Azerbaijani side Gabala and Spanish side Granada.\n

From early in his career Adams was an alcoholic off the field, and after crashing his car was sentenced to four months in prison for driving while four times over the limit for blood alcohol. From 1996 he recovered completely, and became involved in helping sportspeople with drink, drug or gambling addictions, founding the Sporting Chance Clinic.^[4]\n

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Club\n	Season\n	League\n	FA Cup\n	League Cup\n	Europe\n	Other\n	Total\n
Division\n	Apps\n	Goals\n	Apps\n	Goals\n	Apps\n	Goals\n	Apps\n	Goals\n	Apps\n	Goals\n	Apps\n	Goals\n
Arsenal\n	1983\u201384^[67]\n	First Division\n	3	0	0	0	0	0	\u2014	\u2014	3	0\n
1984\u201385^[68]\n	First Division\n	16	0	1	0	1	0	\u2014	\u2014	18	0\n
1985\u201386^[69]\n	First Division\n	10	0	0	0	0	0	\u2014	\u2014	10	0\n
1986\u201387^[70]\n	First Division\n	42	6	4	0	9	0	\u2014	\u2014	55	6\n
1987\u201388^[71]\n	First Division\n	39	2	4	0	8	0	\u2014	\u2014	51	2\n
1988\u201389^[72]\n	First Division\n	36	4	2	0	5	0	\u2014	3^[a]\n	1\n	46	5\n
1989\u201390^[73]\n	First Division\n	38	5	3	0	4	0	\u2014	1^[b]	0	46	5\n
1990\u201391^[74]\n	First Division\n	30	1	3	1	4	2	\u2014	\u2014	37	4\n
1991\u201392^[75]\n	First Division\n	35	2	1	0	3	0	4^[c]	0	1^[b]	0	44	2\n
1992\u201393^[76]\n	Premier League\n	35	0	8	2	9	0	\u2014	\u2014	52	2\n
1993\u201394^[77]\n	Premier League\n	35	0	3	2	2	0	8^[d]	2	1^[b]	0	49	4\n
1994\u201395^[78]\n	Premier League\n	27	3	1	0	4	1	10^[e]	0	\u2014	42	4\n
1995\u201396^[79]\n	Premier League\n	21	1	2	0	5	2	\u2014	\u2014	28	3\n
1996\u201397^[80]\n	Premier League\n	28	3	3	0	3	0	1^[f]	0	\u2014	35	3\n
1997\u201398^[81]\n	Premier League\n	26	3	6	0	2	0	2^[f]	0	\u2014	36	3\n
1998\u201399^[82]\n	Premier League\n	26	1	5	0	0	0	4^[c]	1	1^[b]	0	36	2\n
1999\u20132000^[83]\n	Premier League\n	21	0	1	1	0	0	11^[g]	0	0	0	33	1\n
2000\u201301^[84]\n	Premier League\n	26	1	4	1	0	0	8^[c]	0	\u2014	38	2\n
2001\u201302^[85]\n	Premier League\n	10	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	\u2014	13	1\n
Career total\n	504	32	54	8	59	5	48	3	7	1	672	49\n

National team\n	Year\n	Apps\n	Goals\n
England	1987	6	1\n
1988	11	3\n
1989	0	0\n
1990	1	0\n
1991	1	0\n
1992	2	0\n
1993	7	0\n
1994	5	0\n
1995	6	0\n
1996	7	0\n
1997	2	0\n
1998	8	0\n
1999	6	0\n
2000	4	1\n
Total	66	5\n

No.\n	Date\n	Venue\n	Opponent\n	Score\n	Result\n	Competition\n	Ref.\n
1	11 November 1987	Stadion Crvene Zvedze, Belgrade, Yugoslavia	$\"\"$ Yugoslavia	4\u20130	4\u20131	UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying\n	^[87]\n
2	23 March 1988	Wembley Stadium, London, England	$\"\"$ Netherlands	2\u20132	2\u20132	Friendly\n	^[88]\n
3	18 June 1988	Waldstadion, Frankfurt, Germany	$\"\"$ Soviet Union	1\u20131	1\u20133	UEFA Euro 1988\n	^[89]\n
4	16 November 1988	King Fahd Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	$\"\"$ Saudi Arabia	1\u20131	1\u20131	Friendly\n	^[90]\n
5	31 May 2000	Wembley Stadium, London, England	$\"\"$ Ukraine	2\u20130	2\u20130	Friendly\n	^[91]\n

Team\n	From\n	To\n	Record\n
P\n	W\n	D\n	L\n	Win %\n
Wycombe Wanderers\n	5 November 2003\n	9 November 2004\n	53\n	12\n	21\n	20\n	022.6\n
Portsmouth\n	28 October 2008\n	9 February 2009\n	21\n	4\n	6\n	11\n	019.0\n
Gabala\n	12 May 2010\n	16 November 2011\n	45\n	17\n	15\n	13\n	037.8\n
Granada\n	10 April 2017\n	3 June 2017\n	7\n	0\n	0\n	7\n	000.0\n
Total\n	126\n	33\n	42\n	51\n	026.2\n

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Early life

Club career

1983\u20131989: Early career and Anfield title

1989\u20131996: Arsenal's famous back four

1996\u20132002: Wenger's arrival and retirement

International career

Style of play

Managerial and coaching career

Outside football

Playing statistics

Club

International

Managerial statistics

Honours

Publications

See also

References

Sources

External links

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Talks

1 January, 1988