Alan Edward Davidson

Football player infobox


playername = Alan Davidson
fullname = Alan Edward Davidson
nickname = Davo
dateofbirth = birth date and age|df=yes|1960|06|01
cityofbirth = Altona North, Melbourne
countryofbirth = Australia
height =
currentclub = retired
clubnumber =
position = midfielder/defender
youthyears =
youthclubs = Altona City SC
years = 1976-1977
1978-1984
1984-1985
1986
1987-1992
1994-1995
1992-1996
1996
1997-1998
clubs = Altona City SC
South Melbourne
Nottingham Forest
South Melbourne
Melbourne Croatia
South Melbourne
Pahang FA
Collingwood Warriors
Melbourne Knights
caps(goals) =036 0(?)
142 (10)
013 0(0)
013 0(3)
133 0(8)
015 0(0)
168 0(0)
010 0(0)
013 0(0)
nationalyears = 1980-1991
nationalteam = Australia
nationalcaps(goals) = 79 (2)
manageryears = 2000
managerclubs = Whittlesea Zebras
pcupdate = 20 August 2007
ntupdate = 20 August 2007

Alan Edward Davidson (born in Melbourne, Victoria) was an Australian football (soccer) player.

He was a defender and won 79 international caps (54 in official FIFA matches) between 1980 and 1991 with the Socceroos, the Australian national football team, scoring 2 goals in those appearances.

Davidson began his domestic senior football career in 1976 and 1977, playing for Altona City SC which had been his junior club. The following year, he transferred to South Melbourne, where he played until the end of the 1984 season, making 155 appearances and scoring 13 goals. His first Australian representative honours were in 1978-79 during the Under 19 World Youth Cup, qulifiers in New Zealand and Paraguay and made 10 youth appearances.

He moved to England for the 1984-85 season for Nottingham Forest F.C. and a promising start where he broke into the first team as a right-back was curtailed by illness after suffering an epileptic fit during a reserve game one freezing night. He didn't play for the first team again and returned to the southern hemisphere after a serious back injury had sidelined him for over a year. He resumed playing in Australia in 1987 for Melbourne Croatia, making 133 appearances and scoring 10 goals from 1987 to the end of the 1991-92 season.

Near the end of his playing career, he guested for South Melbourne FC for two seasons, (1994-95 and 1995-96),while with the Malaysian club, Pahang FA in between (1992-96). His penultimate season (1996-97) he guested with the Collingwood Warriors, and his last season (1997-98) was back with the [Melbourne Knights] . He finally retired in 1998 at the age of 38 after 3 World Cup campaigns and 1 Olympic Games he received an AMP awarded to him by the Sultan of Pahang in 1996 and was inducted to the Football Federation Australia Hall of Champions in 2001.