Steve Whitworth
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Stephen Whitworth | ||
| Date of birth | 20 March 1952 | ||
| Place of birth | Coalville, Leicestershire, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| – | Leicester City | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1970–1979 | Leicester City | 353 | (0) |
| 1979–1981 | Sunderland | 83 | (0) |
| 1981–1983 | Bolton Wanderers | 67 | (0) |
| 1983–1985 | Mansfield Town | 80 | (2) |
| 1985–1989 | Barnet | ||
| National team | |||
| 1971–1975 | England U23 | 6 | (1) |
| 1975 | England | 7 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Stephen "Steve" Whitworth (born 20 March 1952) is an English former professional footballer who made nearly 600 appearances in the Football League playing for Leicester City, Sunderland, Bolton Wanderers and Mansfield Town. He was capped seven times for England.
Whitworth was born in Coalville, Leicestershire. He began his career with his local club, Leicester City, with whom he made his debut as an 18-year-old in a 4–0 win against Bristol City on 2 September 1970. Predominantly a right back, he spent nine seasons as a first-team regular with Leicester before being sold to Sunderland in March 1979 for a fee of £120,000. In his first season for Leicester, Whitworth was a member of the team that won the Football League Second Division, whereafter Leicester remained in the top flight until 1978. Whitworth scored the goal which won the Charity Shield for Leicester in 1971, a year in which the Second Division champions were invited to play the FA Cup runners-up, Liverpool, owing to the European commitments of Arsenal, who had done the Double during the previous season.
Whitworth helped Sunderland to promotion from the Second Division in his second season with the club, 1979–80, the team finishing second behind his former club Leicester City. In total Whitworth spent two-and-a-half years with Sunderland before moving to Bolton Wanderers in October 1981. He spent two seasons with Bolton, but left the club in the summer of 1983 following Bolton's relegation to the Third Division. He spent two seasons with Mansfield Town before joining Conference National club Barnet, where he was appointed assistant manager to Barry Fry during his second season with the club.
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