Keith Waugh
Personal information
Date of birth (1956-10-27) 27 October 1956 (age 67)
Place of birth Sunderland, England
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1971–1973 Sunderland
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1973–1976 Sunderland 0 (0)
1976–1981 Peterborough United 195 (0)
1981–1985 Sheffield United 99 (0)
1984 → Cambridge United (loan) 4 (0)
1984–1985 → Bristol City (loan) 3 (0)
1985–1989 Bristol City 167 (0)
1989–1991 Coventry City 1 (0)
1990–1991 → Watford (loan) 0 (0)
1991–1993 Watford 7 (0)
Total 476 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Keith Waugh (born 27 October 1956[1]) is an English-born footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League between the 1970s and 1990s, most notably with Peterborough United, Sheffield United and Bristol City.

He started as a trainee with Sunderland, but did not play any League games with them, and he moved to Peterborough United, first playing a league game for them in 1976–77. He went on to make 195 League appearances for The Posh.[2]

He moved to Sheffield United in 1981 for a fee of £100,000,[3] and made 99 League appearances for the club[2]

He moved to Bristol City in the mid-1980s, although he had loan spells at Bristol City and Cambridge United during the 1984–85 season before his permanent move to The Robins.[2]

Waugh was to make 167 League appearances for the Ashton Gate club (including appearing in the 1986 Football League Trophy Final[4]) before a brief spell at Coventry City in the late 1980s.[2] He then moved to Watford and made a total of 7 league appearances for them.[2] On 23 March 1993 he was recalled to the Watford team for the first time in 14 months against Newcastle United, and put in an excellent performance in Watford's 1–0 victory.[5] His final Football League appearance came against Charlton Athletic on 6 April 1993.[1] After his playing career finished he remained at Watford as youth team coach.[6]

Honours

Sheffield United

Bristol City

References

  1. ^ a b Rollin, Jack, ed. (1993). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1993-94. Headline. ISBN 0-7472-7895-4.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Keith Waugh". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  3. ^ Ian Rands (4 February 2011). "Great Football League Teams 12: Sheffield United, 1981-2". the two unfortunates. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  4. ^ Bristol City Wembley 20th anniversary 24/5/06 Archived 16 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Watford v Newcastle match report in Independent, 24/03/93
  6. ^ Jones, Trefor (1996). Watford Football Club Illustrated Who's Who. p. 237. ISBN 0-9527458-0-1.
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