Alf Ainsworth
| Alf Ainsworth | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Alphonso Ainsworth | |
| birthday | July 31, 1913 | |
| place of birth | Manchester , England | |
| date of death | April 25, 1975 | |
| Place of death | Rochdale , England | |
| size | 168 cm | |
| position | Half-striker | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| until 1933 | Ashton United | |
| 1933-1935 | Manchester United | 2 (0) |
| 1935-1939 | AFC New Brighton | 150 (39) |
| 1946-1947 | AFC New Brighton | 28 (9) |
| 1947–? | Congleton Town | ? (?) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Alphonso "Alf" Ainsworth (born July 31, 1913 in Manchester , † April 25, 1975 in Rochdale ) was an English professional footballer on the position of the striker .
Career
Ainsworth began his career with Ashton United in the Cheshire County League. In October 1933 he moved as an amateur to the English second division club Manchester United . There Ainsworth signed his first professional contract on February 13, 1934 and made his league debut on March 3, 1934 in a 2-1 home win over Bury in front of over 11,000 spectators. He came during his time with Manchester only to one more league use and left the club in September 1935 to move to AFC New Brighton . With the Liverpool suburban club he moved into the quarter-finals of the FA Cup in the 1937/38 season , but failed there at Tottenham Hotspur . Ainsworth scored 39 goals in 150 league games until the outbreak of World War II for the club taking part in the Football League Third Division North and was considered one of the strongest half-strikers in the lower-class professional leagues.
During World War II, Ainsworth played for Accrington Stanley (1939/40 season; 4 games / 1 goal), Rochdale AFC (1940–42; 5/1), Southport FC (1942/43; 1/0), Oldham Athletic (1942 –44; 27/2) and FC Bury (1943/44; 3/2) in the regional Wartime Leagues . In 1946 Ainsworth returned for a season to New Brighton before moving to the amateur camp at Congleton Town, where he let his career end.
literature
- Garth Dykes: The United Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-6-8 , pp. 9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939-45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ainsworth, Alf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ainsworth, Alphonso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1975 |
| Place of death | Rochdale |