David Farrell (footballer, born 1971)

David William Farrell (born 11 November 1971) is an English former footballer. Farrell made over 400 appearances in the Football League for Wycombe Wanderers, Peterborough United and Boston United between 1995 and 2007.

David Farrell

Personal information
Full name	David William Farrell
Date of birth	(1971-11-11) 11 November 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth	Birmingham, England
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1991–1992	Redditch United	?	(?)
1992–1995	Aston Villa	6	(0)
1993	→ Scunthorpe United (loan)	0	(0)
1995–1997	Wycombe Wanderers	60	(6)
1997–2006	Peterborough United	337	(42)
2006–2007	Boston United	40	(1)
2007–2008	Burton Albion	21	(0)
2008–2009	Boston United
2009–2010	Stamford
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 12:10, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Career

Farrell began his career at non-league club Redditch United in 1991 before joining Aston Villa in 1992 for a fee of £45,000.^[1] He made eight league and cup appearances for Aston Villa in three seasons and then joined Wycombe Wanderers for a fee of £100,000, where he made over 70 appearances in all competitions in two seasons.^[1] He moved on to Peterborough United in June 1997, where he spent nine seasons, making almost 400 appearances and scored 52 goals, and became a London Road legend.^[1] He was not offered a new contract at the end of the 2005–06 season, due to the manager wanting someone younger, and left the club,^[2] joining Boston United in June 2006,^[3] where he made 43 appearances during the 2006–07 season as Boston were ultimately relegated from the Football League in May 2007.^[4]

After one season at Boston, Farrell joined Conference National side Burton Albion in July 2007.^[5] He was released by Burton after his one-year contract expired at the end of the 2007–08 season^[6] and re-joined Boston United, now in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, in June 2008.^[4]

Career statistics

This table is incomplete.

Club	Season	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Other[A]		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Aston Villa	1992–93[7][8]	2	0	0	0	0	0	–		2	0
	1993–94[9]	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
	1994–95[10]	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0
	1995–96[11]	0	0	–		–		–		0	0
	Total	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	8	0
Scunthorpe United (loan)	1992–93[8]	5	1	–	–	–	–	2	0	7	1
Wycombe Wanderers	1995–96[11]	33	7	2	0	2	0	2	0	39	7
	1996–97	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	?	0
	Total	60	6	0	0	?	0	?	?	?	?
Peterborough United	1997–98[12]	42	6	3	0	4	1	4	1	53	8
	1998–99[12]	37	4	1	0	1	0	1	0	40	4
	1999–00[12]	35	3	0	0	2	0	3	3	40	6
	2000–01[12]	44	7	5	1	2	1	0	0	51	9
	2001–02[12][B]	38	6	5	2	2	0	1	0	46	8
	2002–03[12]	37	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	39	3
	2003–04[12]	44	5	3	0	1	0	3	1	51	6
	2004–05[12]	31	2	4	0	1	0	0	0	36	2
	2005–06[13]	29	6	1	0	1	0	1	0	32	6
	Total	337	42	23	3	14	2	14	5	388	52
Boston United	2006–07	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	?	0
Burton Albion	2007–08	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	?	0
Career totals		468	52	27	3	23	2	20	5	538	62

Notes

A. ^ The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the Football League Trophy unless stated. In 1999/00 the data relates to the Football League play-offs.

B. ^ The season summary source wrongly lists Farrell as scoring two goals in 'Other competitions'. This is proved to be incorrect by analysis of Peterborough's games/scorers for that season

Honours

Peterborough United

• Football League Third Division play-offs: 2000^[14]

Individual

• PFA Team of the Year: 1997–98 Third Division^[15]