Alan Knight (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alan Edward Knight | ||
| Date of birth | 3 July 1961 | ||
| Place of birth | Balham, London, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Portsmouth (club ambassador) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1978–2000 | Portsmouth | 683 | (0) |
| 2001 | Havant & Waterlooville | 3 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Portsmouth | 0 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Dorchester Town | 0 | (0) |
| 2009 | Horndean | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 686 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 1983 | England U21 | 2 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2009 | Horndean | ||
| 2011–2012 | Dorchester Town | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:33, 8 March 2012 (UTC). |
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Alan Edward Knight MBE (born 3 July 1961) is an English former footballer turned manager. He holds the record for the most appearances for a single club by a goalkeeper, having played 683 league games (and 801 games overall) for Portsmouth between 1978 and 2000; this superseded Peter Bonetti's record of exactly 600 goalkeeping appearances for Chelsea. He helped Portsmouth to the 1992 FA Cup semi final which they lost on a penalty shootout to Liverpool.
In addition to his goalkeeping record, he is the second-longest serving Portsmouth player of all time behind Jimmy Dickinson. He was capped at under-21 international level, but was never selected for the full England squad.
Knight was born in Balham, London.
Knight joined Portsmouth F.C. as an apprentice at the age of 14 and signed a professional contract with the club in 1977. He went on to make his debut for the club a year later, keeping a clean sheet in a 2–0 Football League Third Division win against Rotherham United with Portsmouth's relegation to the fourth tier of English football already confirmed. Knight served as reserve goalkeeper to Peter Mellor for the next three seasons, making eight appearances during Pompey's 1979–80 promotion season, before establishing himself as the team's first choice goalkeeper during the 1981–82 season where he was named the fans' player of the season for the first time. Knight was a member of the team that won the Third Division championship in 1982–83 and was given a debut for the England U21 team in a 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Greece at Portsmouth's ground Fratton Park. He made one further appearance for the England U21s against Hungary, before first choice goalkeeper Gary Bailey returned from injury. England went on to win the final tournament, with Knight's Portsmouth team mate Mark Hateley named player of the tournament.
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