Andy Saville

Football player infobox


playername = Andy Saville
fullname = Andrew Victor Saville
height = 6 ft (1.83 m)
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1964|12|12|df=y
cityofbirth = Hull
countryofbirth = England
currentclub =
position = Striker
youthyears = 1979–1983
youthclubs = Hull City
years = 1983–1989
1989–1990
1990–1992
1992–1993
1993–1995
1994–1995
1995–1996
1996–1997
1997–1999
1998
1999
1999-2000
2000-2001
clubs = Hull City
Walsall
Barnsley
Hartlepool United
Birmingham City
→Burnley
Preston North End
Wigan Athletic
Cardiff City
→Hull City
Scarborough
Gainsborough Trinity
Goole
caps(goals) = 101 (18)
038 0(5)
082 (21)
037 (14)
059 (17)
004 0(1)
056 (30)
025 0(4)
035 (12)
003 0(0)
009 0(0)

Andrew Victor "Andy" Saville (born 12 December 1964) is a former English professional footballer who played as a striker. His professional career lasted sixteen years, spent at a total of ten lower-division clubs in the Football League.

Saville was born in Hull. He made over 100 appearances for his home-town club Hull City, whom he joined from school. He was his club's leading scorer on several occasions, at Hull City in 1986–87, [cite web
url=http://www.hullcity-mad.co.uk/news/loadfeat.asp?cid=ED93&id=2809163 |author=Bell, Andy |title=Season by season top scorers for the club |work=Hull City Online (a Hull City fansite) |publisher=FootyMad |date=2007-06-05 |accessdate=2007-08-10] at Birmingham City in 1993–94, and again the following season for Preston North End, where he scored 30 goals in all competitions, his 29 League goals making him overall top scorer in Division Three. [cite book
author=Sewell, Albert (ed.) |title=News of the World Football Annual 1996-97 |year=1996 |publisher=Invincible Press |location=London |pages=pp. 31, 369 |isbn=978-0-00-218737-4]

In 1992–93 he had the rare distinction of becoming top scorer for two clubs in the same season, scoring 20 goals in all competitions for Hartlepool United [cite web
url=http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/cgi-bin/itmc_view_squad.asp?seasonoid=1992/93 |title=1992/93 Hartlepool United First Team Players |work=In the mad crowd (a Hartlepool United resource) |accessdate=2007-08-10 ] before moving to Birmingham in March 1993, where his ten games produced seven goals, a total which no other Birmingham player bettered over the whole season.

Honours

* with Preston North End
** Division Three champions 1996.
** Division Three top goalscorer 1996.
* with Wigan Athletic
** Division Three champions 1997.

References

cite book
author=Matthews, Tony |title=Birmingham City: A Complete Record |year=1995 |publisher=Breedon Books |location=Derby |isbn=978-1-85983-010-9

Notes

Persondata
NAME = Saville, Andrew Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH = 1964-12-12
PLACE OF BIRTH = Hull, England
DATE OF DEATH =
PLACE OF DEATH =