Stan Clements

Stanley Finlay Thomas Clements OBE (25 June 1923^[1] – 8 November 2018^[2]) was an English footballer who played most of his professional career for Southampton.

Stan Clements

Personal information
Full name	Stanley Finlay Thomas Clements
Date of birth	(1923-06-25)25 June 1923
Place of birth	Portsmouth, England
Date of death	8 November 2018(2018-11-08) (aged 95)
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[1]
Position(s)	Centre back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1944–1955	Southampton	116	(1)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

He was a mechanical engineer in Portsmouth's naval dockyards and joined Southampton from Gosport Borough in July 1944.^[1]

He made his league debut on 24 May 1947 in the 2–0 home victory over Fulham. He was a strong, powerful centre-half and replaced Eric Webber for 13 games in the following season when Webber was rested. Once Webber regained his place in the team, Clements made no further first-team appearances until February 1951. For the following few seasons he alternated at centre-back with Len Wilkins and Henry Horton and had a spell as team captain in 1952–53.

He scored once in 116 league games before becoming player-coach at Basingstoke Town in February 1955.

Later career

After leaving football, he qualified as a civil engineer and worked in Kenya, Uganda and Sudan, before briefly helping to coach the Kenyan national team. In 1981, he was appointed O.B.E. for services to engineering in Africa.^[1]

He returned to the UK in the mid-1980s and latterly lived in Gosport.^[3] He died in November 2018 at the age of 95.^[2]