Andy Saville

Andy Saville
Personal information
Full name	Andrew Victor Saville
Date of birth	12 December 1964 (age 59)
Place of birth	Hull, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
1979–1983	Hull City
Senior career*
Years	Team
1983–1989	Hull City
1989–1990	Walsall
1990–1992	Barnsley
1992–1993	Hartlepool United
1993–1995	Birmingham City
1994–1995	→ Burnley (loan)
1995–1996	Preston North End
1996–1997	Wigan Athletic
1997–1999	Cardiff City
1998	→ Hull City (loan)
1999	Scarborough
1999–2000	Gainsborough Trinity
2000–2001	Goole
Total
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Andrew Victor Saville (born 12 December 1964) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. His professional career lasted sixteen years, spent at a total of ten lower-division clubs in the Football League.^[3]

Career

Saville was born in Hull. He made more than 100 appearances for his home-town club, Hull City, whom he joined from school.^[3]^[4] He was his club's leading scorer on several occasions, at Hull City in 1986–87,^[5] at Birmingham City in 1993–94,^[4] and again in 1995–96 for Preston North End, where he scored 30 goals in all competitions, his 29 League goals making him overall top scorer in the Third Division.^[6]

In 1992–93 he had the rare distinction of becoming top scorer for two clubs in the same season, scoring 20 goals in all competitions for Hartlepool United^[7] before moving to Birmingham in March 1993, where his ten games produced seven goals, a total which no other Birmingham player bettered over the whole season.^[8]

Personal life

Saville works as a host for the hospitality boxes at Hull City.^[9]

Honours

Preston North End

Football League Third Division: 1995–96

Wigan Athletic

Football League Third Division: 1996–97

Individual

PFA Team of the Year: 1995–96 Third Division^[10]
Third Division Golden Boot: 1995–96

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Andy Saville". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
^ Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5.
^ ^a ^b "Andy Saville". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Archived from the original on 2 January 2009. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
^ ^a ^b Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
^ Beill, Andy (5 June 2007). "Season by season top scorers for the club". Hull City Online. FootyMad. Retrieved 27 February 2011.
^ Sewell, Albert, ed. (1996). News of the World Football Annual 1996–97. London: Invincible Press. pp. 31, 369. ISBN 978-0-00-218737-4.
^ "1992/93 Squad". In The Mad Crowd. John Phillips. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
^ Matthews, p. 228.
^ "What happened next to Hull City's Great Escape squad". 24 March 2019.
^ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (1996). The 1996–97 Official PFA Footballers Factfile. Harpenden: Queen Anne Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-1-85291-571-1.