Kelvin Davis

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Kelvin Davis
Personnel
Surname Kelvin Geoffrey Davis
birthday 29th September 1976
place of birth Bedford ,  England
size 185 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
Luton Town
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1994-1999 Luton Town 91 (0)
1994 →  Torquay United  (loan) 2 (0)
1997 →  Hartlepool United  (loan) 2 (0)
1999-2003 Wimbledon FC 131 (0)
2003-2005 Ipswich Town 84 (0)
2005-2006 Sunderland AFC 33 (0)
2006-2016 Southampton FC 270 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1995-1996 England U-21
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2017– Southampton FC (Assistant Manager)
2018 → Southampton FC (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Kelvin Geoffrey Davis (born September 29, 1976 in Bedford ) is a former English football player and current coach .

Player career

Luton Town and Wimbledon FC (1994-2003)

Kelvin Davis made his debut in the 1993/94 season for Luton Town in the second-rate Football League First Division . After three years as a substitute goalkeeper, he played thirty-two league games in 1997/98 for his team, now playing in the third division. In 1998/99, the 22-year-old goalkeeper (44 league games) with Luton ended the third division season as twelfth in the table.

On July 14, 1999, Davis moved to the first division club Wimbledon for £ 600,000 . For his new club he stayed in the Premier League 1999/2000 without league use and rose with the team from London as third from bottom in the second division. After relegation, Kelvin Davis advanced to the goalkeeper, but missed the return to the Premier League with Wimbledon as eighth in the table. Also in the two following seasons he stayed between the posts of his team before he left the club in 2003. As early as 2002, the club had received permission to move from London to Milton Keynes .

Ipswich Town and Sunderland AFC (2003-2006)

On August 6, 2003, the free goalkeeper moved to the second division Ipswich Town and signed a three-year contract. With his new team Davis moved (45 league games) as fifth in the play-offs 2003/04 , but failed there prematurely at West Ham United . After a third place in the newly introduced Football League Championship 2004/05 and another out in the first play-off round against West Ham, Davis moved on June 14, 2006 for £ 1,250,000 transfer fee to the first division promoted AFC Sunderland . As an award for his good performance, he was voted into the PFA Team of the Year in the second division. In the Premier League 2005/06 coach Mick McCarthy put him on a regular basis, but Sunderland did not get along in the new division and was relegated back to the second division as a beaten bottom table.

Southampton FC (2006-2016)

After an unfortunate season for him personally, the now 29-year-old goalkeeper moved to the second division FC Southampton on July 21, 2006 . With Southampton he reached the play-offs on a sixth place in the Football League Championship 2006/07 , but failed in the first round on penalties at Derby County. After a significant deterioration in performance in 2007/08 , the team from southern England rose in the Football League Championship 2008/09 in the third division. There, the club around the PFA Team of the Year elected Kelvin Davis 2010 missed the return to the second division. After an increase in performance in the Football League One 2010/11 , the goalkeeper re-elected to the team of the year reached the runner-up with Southampton and thus promotion.

Just one year later, Southampton managed to march straight through to the Premier League with Davis, who had extended his contract to mid-2014 at the end of June 2011 . In the top English league he moved back to the second rank and was henceforth only substitute goalkeeper behind Artur Boruc and from 2014 behind Fraser Forster . When Forster finally injured his knee in March 2015 and Boruc was temporarily loaned to AFC Bournemouth , Davis celebrated a celebrated comeback after a further extension of his contract against Burnley FC (2-0). He was honored as the best player ("Man of the Match").

Coaching career

At the end of December 2017, Davis became Mauricio Pellegrino's assistant coach at Southampton FC . After his release, he worked at Mark Hughes' side from mid-March 2018 . After he was dismissed in early December 2018, Davis looked after the team on matchday 15 in the 1: 3 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur as interim coach. Then Ralph Hasenhüttl was the new head coach and Davis returned to his position as assistant coach.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dons get Milton Keynes green light (BBC Sport)
  2. ↑ Ipswich land Davis (BBC Sport)
  3. ↑ Davis completes Sunderland move (BBC Sport)
  4. ↑ Southampton complete Davis swoop (BBC Sport)
  5. ^ Three in Team of the Year (Saintsfc)
  6. ↑ Fantastic Five in Team of the Year (Saintsfc)
  7. ↑ Kelvin Davis signs new Southampton contract (BBC Sport)
  8. ^ "Southampton's Kelvin Davis ready to become a surprise central figure" (The Guardian)
  9. ↑ Saints appoint Hasenhüttl , southamptonfc.com, accessed on December 5, 2018 (English)
  10. ↑ See the match report on kicker.de, accessed on December 6, 2018.
  11. ↑ Mark Hughes: Southampton sack manager after eight months in charge , bbc.com, December 3, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018.
  12. ↑ Saints appoint Hasenhüttl , southamptonfc.com, December 5, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Davis, Kelvin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davis, Kelvin Geoffrey (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 29th September 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedford , England