Grant Davies (footballer)
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Grant Davies | ||
Date of birth | 13 October 1959 | ||
Place of birth | Barrow, England | ||
Position(s) | Central defender | ||
Youth career | |||
1977–1978 | Preston North End | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1978–1983 | Newport County | 150 | (1) |
1983 | → Exeter City (loan) | 7 | (0) |
Total | 157 | (1) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Grant Davies (born 13 October 1959 in Barrow) is an English former professional football player. A centre half, Davies joined Newport County in 1978 from Preston North End. Between 1978 and 1983 Davies made 150 league appearances for Newport, scoring 1 goal during the most successful period in the club's long history. Davies was part of the team that won promotion and the Welsh Cup and in the subsequent season reached the quarter-final of the 1981 European Cup Winners Cup.[1]
In 1983 he had a brief loan spell at Exeter City making 7 league appearances before joining Gloucester City.
References
External links
- Grant Davies, www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com
Categories:
- 1959 births
- Living people
- English footballers
- Preston North End F.C. players
- Newport County A.F.C. players
- Exeter City F.C. players
- Yeovil Town F.C. players
- Gloucester City A.F.C. players
- The Football League players
- Sportspeople from Barrow-in-Furness
- Association football central defenders
- English football defender, 1950s birth stubs