Tom Finney
Sign in to saveEnglish footballer (1922–2014)
Key facts
- 1940
- Preston North End
- 1948
- England B
- 1962
- Toronto City
- 1963
- Distillery
- Full name
- Thomas Finney
- Date of birth
- ( 1922-04-05 ) 5 April 1922
- Place of birth
- Preston , England
- Date of death
- 14 February 2014 (2014-02-14) (aged 91)
- Place of death
- Preston, England
- Height
- 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
- Position
- Outside left
- Years
- Team
- 1940 1960
- Preston North End
- 1946 1958
- England
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Preston
- Place of death
- Preston
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Knight Bachelor
- Participant in
- 1954 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- England men's national association football team
- Position played
- wing half
- Country for sport
- England
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- British Army
- Image
- Tom finney with england c1950.jpg
- Height
- 1.73
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- date of death
- 2014-02-14
- date of birth
- 1922-04-05
- Commons category
- Tom Finney
- pseudonym
- The Preston Plumber
- end of work period
- 1963-00-00
- start of work period
- 1946-00-00
- name in native language
- Tom Finney
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Thomas Finney (5 April 1922 – 14 February 2014) was an English international footballer who played from 1946 to 1960 as an outside left for Preston North End and England. He is widely acknowledged to have been one of England's greatest ever players. He was noted for his loyalty to Preston, for whom he made 433 Football League and 39 FA Cup appearances, scoring a total of 210 goals. He played for England 76 times, scoring 30 goals.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tom Finney” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.