Stuart Housley

Stuart Housley (15 September 1948 – 24 August 2021) was an English professional footballer who played as a winger.[1]

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

After leaving Grimsby Town, Housley joined Southern League side Yeovil Town for whom he made 399 appearances and scored 60 goals in eight seasons.[2] Housley also spent short spells playing for Weymouth and Westland Sports.[3][4] 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.[3][5]

Housley died in August 2021, aged 72.[6]

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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