Billy Bingham

Billy Bingham
Personnel
Surname	William Laurence Bingham
birthday	August 5, 1931
place of birth	Belfast ,  Northern Ireland
size	170 cm
position	Right winger
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1949-1951	Glentoran FC
1951-1958	Sunderland AFC	206 (45)
1958-1960	Luton Town	87 (27)
1961-1963	Everton FC	86 (23)
1963-1964	Port Vale	40 0(6)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1951-1963	Northern Ireland	56 (8)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1965-1967	Southport FC
1967	Northern Ireland
1968-1970	Plymouth Argyle
1970-1971	Linfield FC
1971-1973	Greece
1973-1977	Everton FC
1977	PAOK Saloniki
1978-1979	Mansfield Town
1980-1993	Northern Ireland
1 Only league games are given.

William Laurence "Billy" Bingham , MBE (born August 5, 1931 in Belfast ) is a former Northern Irish football player and football coach .

As an active footballer, Billy Bingham was a dribbling right winger who began his career in his hometown at Glentoran Belfast and moved to England for Sunderland FC in 1950 . In 1957 he qualified with the Northern Irish national football team for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden , where he met World Champion Germany in preliminary group 1 . His team failed in the quarter-finals 4-0 to France .

After the World Cup tournament, he moved to Luton Town . With Luton Town he reached the FA Cup final in 1959. He achieved his greatest success as a club player in 1963 with Everton FC when he became English champions. After the championship season he moved to Port Vale , where he ended his career after a broken leg in 1964.

After his active career, Bingham began working as a coach. In 1967 he took over the Northern Irish national team as national coach for the first time and at the same time coached the English club Plymouth Argyle . In 1971 he took over the Greek national soccer team as national coach for two years . In 1973 he came as a coach to his former championship club Everton, but where he could only show average success. In January 1977 he was fired and remained without a coaching position until 1980. Then he took over the Northern Irish national team again and reached the second qualification of the Northern Irish for a World Cup tournament after 1958 and qualified for the Soccer World Cup 1982 in Spain . He led the strong team into the second final round, where again France was too strong for a Northern Irish team. Bingham became Northern Ireland's most successful national coach ever when he led the team to Mexico for the 1986 World Cup . Here, however, the team failed in the preliminary round. Billy Bingham remained as national coach for Northern Ireland until 1994 when he retired from the coaching business.

Web links

• Billy Bingham in the database of weltfussball.de