| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1944-09-24) 24 September 1944 (age 80) | ||
| Place of birth | Chesterfield, England | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Sheffield Wednesday | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1963–1966 | Sheffield Wednesday | 53 | (21) |
| 1966–1978 | Middlesbrough | 415 | (159) |
| 1976–1977 | → Hull City (loan) | 6 | (1) |
| 1978 | Fort Lauderdale Strikers | 3 | (1) |
| Whitby Town | |||
| Total | 477 | (182) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
John Hickton (born 24 September 1944) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a striker for Sheffield Wednesday, Middlesbrough and Hull City, and in the North American Soccer League for Fort Lauderdale Strikers. He is noted for his prolific scoring for Middlesbrough between 1966 and 1976.
Hickton was born in Brimington, near Chesterfield in Derbyshire. He started his career at Sheffield Wednesday, and made his debut in the Football League First Division on 7 March 1964 in a 2–2 draw away to Aston Villa. He went on to score 21 goals from 56 appearances, which caught the eye of Middlesbrough manager Stan Anderson, who took Hickton to Teesside in 1966.
Hickton was a goalscoring legend at Middlesbrough where he scored 192 goals in 10 years at the club, making nearly 500 appearances. As of 2009, he ranked fourth in the club's all-time goalscorers list and third in terms of appearances, behind George Camsell, George Elliott and Brian Clough, and Tim Williamson and Gordon Jones respectively.
References
- ^ "John Hickton". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
- "John Hickton". The Sheffield Wednesday Archive. Adrian Bullock. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
- Struthers, Greg (3 April 2005). "Caught in Time: Middlesbrough win the Second Division, 1974". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 16 December 2009.
- "Heroes:John Hickton 1966–78". Middlesbrough F.C. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
External links
- League stats at Neil Brown's site
- Stats and photo at Sporting Heroes
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- 1944 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Chesterfield
- English men's footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
- Middlesbrough F.C. players
- Hull City A.F.C. players
- Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1977–1983) players
- Whitby Town F.C. players
- English Football League players
- North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
- English expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
- English expatriate men's footballers
- English football forward, 1940s birth stubs