Charlie Williams (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Charles Albert Williams | ||
| Date of birth | 19 November 1873 | ||
| Place of birth | Welling, Kent, England | ||
| Date of death | 1952 (aged 78–79) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1891–1894 | Woolwich Arsenal | 19 | (0) |
| 1894–1902 | Manchester City | 232 | (1) |
| 1902–1905 | Tottenham Hotspur | ||
| 1905–1906 | Norwich City | 29 | |
| 1906–1908 | Brentford | 59 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1908–1910 | Denmark | ||
| 1911–1912 | Fluminense | ||
| B 93 | |||
| Lille OSC | |||
| 1924–1926 | Fluminense | ||
| 1928 | America FC (RJ) | ||
| 1929–1930 | Botafogo FC | ||
| 1930–1931 | Flamengo | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Charles Albert "Charlie" Williams (19 November 1873 – 1952) was an English football goalkeeper and manager, who was the first goalkeeper known to have scored a goal in a first-class match.
Williams started his career as a youth with minor clubs Phoenix and Erith before joining Royal Arsenal in 1891. He spent his first two seasons in and out of the first team, and started the 1893–94 season, Arsenal's first in the Football League, as regular goalkeeper, being in goal for Arsenal's very first game against Newcastle United on 2 September 1893.
However, Williams was in goal for some of Arsenal's most heavy defeats that season, including a 0–6 defeat to Newcastle United and a 0–5 loss to Liverpool. Arsenal signed Harry Storer in the 1894 close season and duly sold Williams on to Manchester City; he had played 23 first-class matches in total for Arsenal.
At City, he was regular goalkeeper for eight seasons, and while there he won a Second Division winners' medal in 1898–99, and became the first goalkeeper in history to score a goal from open play, with a long clearance against Sunderland at Roker Park on 14 April 1900.
He later had spells with Tottenham Hotspur, Norwich City and Brentford, 59 Southern League appearances for the latter club.
Already in 1905 and 1907 there are reports of Williams taking charge of Københavns Boldklub (KB) in Denmark. In the Danish source it is written, that Williams had quit football already in 1905. After retiring as a player, he became a manager, taking charge of the Danish national team, whom he led through the football tournament of the 1908 Olympics in London. After defeating the French B and A teams 9–0 and 17–1, Denmark lost the gold medal match to Great Britain around the famous striker Vivian Woodward in London with 0–2. Sophus Nielsen from Denmark was the top-scorer of the tournament with eleven goals.
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