Ralph Kirby

Ralph Kirby
Personnel
birthday	March 18, 1884
place of birth	Birmingham ,  England
date of death	1945
Place of death	Spain
position	Winger
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1905-1906	Fulham FC	4 (0)
1906-1907	Birmingham FC	1 (0)
1907-190x	Blackpool FC	0 (0)
	Worcester City
1908-1911	Kidderminster Harriers
1911-1913	FC Willenhall
1913-191x	Fulham FC	0 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1922-1924	CE Europe
1925	Athletic Bilbao
1925-1926	FC Barcelona
1930-193x	CE Europe
1 Only league games are given.

Ralph Kirby (born March 18, 1884 in Birmingham , † 1945 in Spain ), also known as Conyers Kirby , was an English football player and coach.

Career

Kirby played from 1905 for the English Southern Football League club Fulham , for which he played 4 league games. In 1906 he moved to Birmingham FC , for which he played his only first division game in his career on September 6, 1906 in a 2: 4 against Newcastle United . He later played for Blackpool FC and the lower-class clubs Worcester City , Willenhall FC and Kidderminster Harriers , before returning to Fulham FC in 1913.

After he had ended his playing career in 1918, he first became a football referee and manager in Spain. In 1922 Kirby was coached by CE Europe , which he led in 1923 to win the Catalan championship . In the Spanish Cup of 1923 they only failed in the final with 0: 1 to Athletic Bilbao . Before he became coach of FC Barcelona in late 1925 and replaced Jesza Poszony there , he was coach of Athletic Bilbao from July 1925. With FC Barcelona, ​​which he coached for 39 games, he won the Catalan championship and the Copa del Rey in 1926 . In 1930 he was again coach of CE Europe, with less success than in his first engagement: In the 1930/31 season they rose from bottom of the table in the Segunda División .

successes

Trainer:

• Copa del Rey : 1926
• Catalan Championship : 1923, 1926

Web links

• Ralph Kirby in the database of weltfussball.de
• Kirby , entry at BDFutbol
• Ralph Kirby (1925-26) , FC Barcelona (as of August 20, 2020)