Terry Venables

Terry Venables

Venables in 1964
Personal information
Full name	Terence Frederick Venables
Date of birth	(1943-01-06)6 January 1943
Place of birth	Dagenham, Essex, England
Date of death	25 November 2023(2023-11-25) (aged 80)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1958–1960	Chelsea
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1960–1966	Chelsea	202	(26)
1966–1969	Tottenham Hotspur	115	(5)
1969–1974	Queens Park Rangers	177	(19)
1974–1975	Crystal Palace	14	(0)
1974	→ Canterbury-Marrickville Olympic (loan)	18	(0)
1976	→ St Patrick's Athletic (loan)	2	(0)
Total		528	(50)
National team
	England Schoolboy
	England Youth
1960	England Amateur	1	(0)
1962–1964	England U23	4	(0)
1964	England	2	(0)
	The Football League XI	1	(0)
Teams managed
1976–1980	Crystal Palace
1980–1984	Queens Park Rangers
1984–1987	Barcelona
1987–1991	Tottenham Hotspur
1994–1996	England
1997–1998	Australia
1998–1999	Crystal Palace
2000–2001	Middlesbrough (joint with Bryan Robson)
2002–2003	Leeds United
2006–2007	England (assistant)
Honours Men's Football Representing Australia (as manager) FIFA Confederations Cup Runner-up 1997
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Terry Venables (6 January 1943 – 25 November 2023) was an English football player. He played for England national team.

Death

Venables died after a long illness, aged 80, on 25 November 2023.

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			FA Cup		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Chelsea	1959–60	First Division	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	1960–61	First Division	36	0	1	0	3	0	40	0
	1961–62	First Division	12	1	0	0	0	0	12	1
	1962–63	Second Division	42	2	4	1	0	0	46	3
	1963–64	First Division	38	8	3	0	0	0	41	8
	1964–65	First Division	39	7	5	0	5	1	49	8
	1965–66	First Division	34	8	6	0	8	3	48	11
	Total		202	26	19	1	16	4	237	31
Tottenham Hotspur	1965–66	First Division	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	1966–67	First Division	41	3	8	2	1	0	50	5
	1967–68	First Division	36	2	4	0	5	1	45	3
	1968–69	First Division	37	0	4	0	5	1	46	1
	Total		115	5	16	2	11	2	142	9
Canterbury-Marrickville Olympic (loan)	1974	NSW 1st Division	18	0	0	0	0	0	18	0
Queens Park Rangers	1969–70	Second Division	34	5	4	1	4	1	42	7
	1970–71	Second Division	38	10	1	0	2	1	41	11
	1971–72	Second Division	27	1	2	0	4	0	33	1
	1972–73	Second Division	37	1	1	0	1	0	39	1
	1973–74	First Division	36	2	6	0	3	0	45	2
	1974–75	First Division	5	0	0	0	1	0	6	0
	Total		177	19	14	1	15	2	206	22
Crystal Palace	1974–75	Third Division	14	0	2	0	0	0	16	0
Career total			526	50	51	4	42	8	619	62

Managerial statistics

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	From	To	Record
			P	W	D	L	Win %
Crystal Palace	16 June 1976	1 October 1980	208	76	74	58	036.5
Queens Park Rangers	1 October 1980	24 May 1984	184	90	38	56	048.9
Barcelona	June 1984	September 1987	168	86	53	29	051.2
Tottenham Hotspur	28 November 1987	30 June 1991	165	67	46	52	040.6
England	28 January 1994	30 July 1996	23	11	11	1	047.8
Australia	November 1996	1998	23	15	3	5	065.2
Crystal Palace	4 June 1998	15 January 1999	31	11	8	12	035.5
Middlesbrough	6 December 2000	12 June 2001	25	8	11	6	032.0
Leeds United	8 July 2002	21 March 2003	42	16	7	19	038.1
Total			869	380	251	238	043.7

Honours

Player

Chelsea

• Football League Cup: 1964–65
• Football League Second Division runner-up: 1962–63

Tottenham Hotspur

• FA Cup: 1966–67
• FA Charity Shield: 1967 (shared)

Queens Park Rangers

• Football League Second Division runner-up: 1972–73

Manager

Crystal Palace

• Football League Second Division: 1978–79
• Football League Third Division third-place promotion: 1976–77

Queens Park Rangers

• Football League Second Division: 1982–83
• FA Cup runner-up: 1981–82

Barcelona

• La Liga: 1984–85
• Copa de la Liga: 1986
• European Cup runner-up: 1985–86

Tottenham Hotspur

• FA Cup: 1990–91
• FA Charity Shield: 1991 (shared)

Australia

• FIFA Confederations Cup runner-up: 1997

Individual

• Don Balón Award: 1985
• English Football Hall of Fame: 1997 (inducted)
• Premier League Manager of the Month: January 2001

Sources

• Venables, Terry; Hanson, Neil (1994), Venables: The Autobiography, Michael Joseph, ISBN 0-14-024077-2
• Venables, Terry (1996), Venables' England: The Making of the Team, Boxtree, ISBN 0-7522-1664-3
• Venables, Terry (1997), The Best Game in the World, Century, ISBN 0-09-918562-8
• Venables, Terry; Alex, Montgomery (2014), Born to Manage: The Autobiography, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1-47112-991-9