Alan Webb (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alan Richard Webb | ||
| Date of birth | 1 January 1963 | ||
| Place of birth | Wrockwardine, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Right-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1978–1981 | West Bromwich Albion | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1981–1984 | West Bromwich Albion | 24 | (0) |
| 1983–1984 | → Lincoln City (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| 1984–1992 | Port Vale | 190 | (2) |
| Total | 225 | (2) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| Stourbridge (joint) | |||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Alan Richard Webb (born 1 January 1963) is an English former footballer who played as a right-back. He played 225 league games in an eleven-year career in the Football League. He spent 1981 to 1984 with West Bromwich Albion, and also played on loan at Lincoln City, but spent most of his career at Port Vale. He was voted Port Vale F.C. Player of the Year in 1984–85, helped the club to win promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1985–86, and won the Third Division play-off final with the club in 1989. He was forced into early retirement in June 1992, following a broken leg sustained in October 1989.
Webb started his career with West Bromwich Albion in the First Division in January 1981. After avoiding relegation by two points in 1981–82 under Ronnie Allen, the "Baggies" jumped to an eleventh-place finish in 1982–83 after the appointment of Ron Wylie. Webb was loaned out to Third Division club Lincoln City in 1983–84, managed by Colin Murphy. He played a total of 24 league games for West Brom, and appeared eleven times in the league for Lincoln, before new "Baggies" boss Johnny Giles told him he could leave the club on a free transfer.
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