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English footballer (1948–2021)

Stuart Housley
Personal information
Full name Stuart Housley
Date of birth (1948-09-15)15 September 1948
Place of birth Doncaster, England
Date of death 24 August 2021(2021-08-24) (aged 72)
Place of death Yeovil, England
Position(s) Winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1966–1969 Grimsby Town 34 (3)
1969–1976 Yeovil Town
1976–1977 Weymouth 34
1977–1979 Westland Sports
1979–1980 Yeovil Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Stuart Housley (15 September 1948 – 24 August 2021) was an English professional footballer who played as a winger.

After leaving Grimsby Town, Housley joined Southern League side Yeovil Town for whom he made 399 appearances and scored 60 goals in eight seasons. Housley also spent short spells playing for Weymouth and Westland Sports. He returned to Yeovil in the 1990s under manager Graham Roberts and became the club's youth team manager a role he remained in until 2009. Housley worked with 13 managers at Yeovil, and spent 27 years involved with the club in various roles as a player, youth team coach and manager, kit man and video analyst, finally ending his association with the club in 2015.

Housley died in August 2021, aged 72.

References

  1. Lamming, Douglas (1985). A who's who of Grimsby Town AFC : 1890-1985. Beverley: Hutton. p. 42. ISBN 0-907033-34-2.
  2. "GLOVERS NEWS: Yeovil Town legend Stuart Housley fights leukaemia". Yeovil Press. 18 October 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Housley calls it a day at Yeovil". CornwallLive. Local World. 24 July 2009. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  4. "Yeovil Town Story Part 36". Ciderspace (an independent Yeovil Town FC website). Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  5. "Shaftesbury Football Club's crisis outlined to council". SomersetLive. Local World. 14 October 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  6. "Club News | Rest in peace, Stuart Housley". Yeovil Town F.C. 25 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
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