Oscar Hold

Oscar Hold

Personal information
Date of birth	(1918-10-19)19 October 1918
Place of birth	Carlton, England
Date of death	11 October 2005(2005-10-11) (aged 86)
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1937–1939	Barnsley
1946–1947	Aldershot	14	(3)
1946–1949	Norwich City	44	(18)
1948–1949	Notts County	19	(9)
1949–1950	Chelmsford City
1949–1951	Everton	22	(5)
1951–1953	Queens Park Rangers	5	(1)
Managerial career
1962–1964	Doncaster Rovers
1964–1965	Fenerbahçe
1965–1967	Ankara Demirspor
1967-1969	Al-Ahli (Jeddah)
1973–1974	Apollon Limassol
1975–1976	Göztepe
1983–1984	Apollon Limassol
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Oscar Hold (19 October 1918 – 11 October 2005), former footballer and manager, was born in Carlton, near Leeds, England. Hold played for Everton F.C. and Norwich City F.C.. He became manager of Doncaster Rovers in 1962, taking over from Danny Malloy, and also managed Turkish champion Fenerbahçe SK on (1964–65), with whom he won the Turkish League title and Atatürk Cup titles. He later coached a club in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In the seasons 1973–74 and 1983–84, he managed Apollon Limassol. He died in a Sunderland nursing home of bladder cancer in 2005.