Gordon Banks

Gordon Banks (30 December 1937 – 12 February 2019) was an English footballer. He has played for England national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time.^[1]

Gordon Banks
OBE

Personal information
Full name	Gordon Banks
Date of birth	(1937-12-30)30 December 1937
Place of birth	Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Date of death	12 February 2019(2019-02-12) (aged 81)
Place of death	Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1953	Millspaugh
1953	Rawmarsh Welfare
1953	Millspaugh
1953–1958	Chesterfield
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1957–1959	Chesterfield	23	(0)
1959–1966	Leicester City	293	(0)
1966–1972	Stoke City	194	(0)
1967	→ Cleveland Stokers (loan)	7	(0)
1971	→ Hellenic (loan)	3	(0)
1977–1978	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	37	(0)
1977	→ St Patrick's Athletic (loan)	1	(0)
International career
1961	England under-23	2	(0)
1963–1972	England	73	(0)
Managerial career
1979–1980	Telford United
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Banks played in every game of England's 1966 FIFA World Cup victory.

Injury

In October 1972 Banks was involved in a car crash in his car near his home in Madeley Heath. Fragments of glass perforated his right eye and damaged the retina. Surgeons put 100 micro stitches to the eye and a further 200 to his face.^[2] This effectively ended his career, though he played on for a while.

Death

In December 2015, it was announced he was receiving treatment for kidney cancer.^[3] Banks died overnight on 12 February 2019 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, aged 81.^[4][5]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

Club	Season	League			FA Cup		League Cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Chesterfield	1958–59	Third Division	23	0	3	0	—		—		—		26	0
Leicester City	1959–60	First Division	32	0	4	0	—		—		—		36	0
	1960–61	First Division	40	0	10	0	1	0	—		—		51	0
	1961–62	First Division	41	0	2	0	1	0	4[a]	0	—		48	0
	1962–63	First Division	38	0	6	0	2	0	—		—		46	0
	1963–64	First Division	36	0	1	0	8	0	—		—		45	0
	1964–65	First Division	38	0	6	0	9	0	—		—		53	0
	1965–66	First Division	32	0	4	0	1	0	—		—		37	0
	1966–67	First Division	36	0	1	0	3	0	—		—		40	0
	Total		293	0	34	0	25	0	4	0	0	0	356	0
Stoke City	1966–67	First Division	4	0	0	0	0	0	—		—		4	0
	1967–68	First Division	39	0	2	0	4	0	—		—		45	0
	1968–69	First Division	30	0	4	0	0	0	—		—		34	0
	1969–70	First Division	38	0	3	0	1	0	—		—		42	0
	1970–71	First Division	39	0	10	0	1	0	—		5[b]	0	55	0
	1971–72	First Division	36	0	8	0	11	0	—		4[c]	0	59	0
	1972–73	First Division	8	0	0	0	2	0	1[d]	0	—		11	0
	Total		194	0	27	0	19	0	1	0	9	0	250	0
Cleveland Stokers (loan)	1967	United Soccer Association	7	0	—		—		—		—		7	0
Hellenic (loan)	1971	National Football League	3	0	—		—		—		—		3	0
Fort Lauderdale Strikers	1977	North American Soccer League	26	0	—		—		—		2[e]	0	28	0
	1978	North American Soccer League	11	0	—		—		—		—		11	0
	Total		37	0	—		—		—		2	0	39	0
St Patrick's Athletic (loan)	1977–78	League of Ireland	1	0	0	0	0	0	—		—		1	0
Career total			558	0	64	0	44	0	5	0	11	0	682	0

1. Appearances in European Cup Winners' Cup
2. Four appearances in Anglo-Italian Cup and one in Texaco Cup
3. Appearances in Texaco Cup
4. Appearances in UEFA Cup
5. Appearances in North American Soccer League play-offs

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year^[11]

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
England	1963	7	0
	1964	7	0
	1965	7	0
	1966	15	0
	1967	4	0
	1968	6	0
	1969	6	0
	1970	10	0
	1971	7	0
	1972	4	0
Total		73	0

Honours

Leicester City

• Football League Cup: 1963–64^[12]
• FA Cup runner-up: 1960–61,^[13] 1962–63^[13]

Stoke City

• Football League Cup: 1971–72^[12]

England

• FIFA World Cup: 1966^[14]
• UEFA European Championship third-place: 1968^[15]
• British Home Championship: 1964 (shared), 1965, 1966,^[16] 1968, 1969, 1970 (shared), 1971, 1972^[17]

Individual ^[18]

• FIFA Goalkeeper of the Year: 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971
• FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1966
• Ballon d'Or Nominated: 1966, 1970, 1972^[19]
• World XI: 1969,^[20] 1971, 1972^[21]
• FUWO European Team of the Season: 1969,^[22] 1970^[23]
• Rothman's Golden Boot Awards: 1970, 1971, 1972^[24]
• Officer of the Order of the British Empire: 1970
• Daily Express Sportsmen of the Year: 1971, 1972
• Sport Ideal European XI: 1971, 1972^[25][26]
• FWA Footballer of the Year: 1972
• Football League 100 Legends: 1998
• English Football Hall of Fame: 2002
• NASL All-Stars: 1977^[27]
• NASL Goalkeeper of the Year: 1977
• World Soccer Greatest Players of the 20th Century: 32nd^[28]
• FIFA 100: 2004
• PFA Team of the Century (1907–1976): 2007^[29]
• Freedom of the City of Stoke-on-Trent 16 October 2014.^[30]
• Freedom of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme 23 February 2018.^[31]