William Maxwell (soccer player)

William Maxwell
Personnel
Surname	William Sturrock Maxwell
birthday	September 21, 1876
place of birth	Arbroath ,  Scotland
date of death	July 14, 1940
Place of death	Bristol ,  England
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1893-1894	FC Arbroath
1894	Heart of Midlothian	1 0(1)
1894-1895	Dundee FC
1895-1901	Stoke City	155 (74)
1901-1902	Third Lanark	16 (10)
1902-1903	Sunderland FC	7 0(3)
1903-1905	Millwall FC
1905-1909	Bristol City	120 (58)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1898	Scotland	1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1909-1910	Leopold FC
1910-1914	Belgium
1914-1928	Belgium
1937-1938	Cercle Bruges
1 Only league games are given.

William Sturrock Maxwell (born September 21, 1876 in Arbroath , † July 14, 1940 in Bristol ; also William J. Maxwell ) was a Scottish football player and coach .

career

player

Born in 1876, William Maxwell joined FC Arbroath at the beginning of the 1890s, at that time still as an amateur, and then Heart of Midlothian and FC Dundee . In 1895 he was with his move to English club Stoke to professional .

He also peaked at Stoke when he scored 74 goals in 153 games.

In 1898 he was appointed to the Scottish national team once , which, however, was his only international appearance.

In 1901 Maxwell left Stoke to join Third Lanark . Until the end of his career in 1909, the stations Sunderland , Millwall and Bristol City followed , where he was able to maintain his high hit rate. In 1901 he was the top scorer in the Scottish Football League .

Trainer

After he finished his playing career in 1909, Maxwell turned in the same year the coaching profession and went to Belgium to the Leopold FC to take over. From 1910 he coached the Belgian national team , which he only handed over to the Austrian Victor Löwenfeld 18 years later .

He later trained for a season at Cercle Bruges , with which he won the Division I championship. He died in 1940.

successes

As a player

• Master of the Football League Second Division (1): 1907
• Scorer of the Scottish Division One (1): 1902

As a trainer

• Champion of Division I (1): 1938

literature

• Matthews, Tony: “The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City” (Lion Press, 1994, ISBN 1859831001 )
• Garth Dykes, Doug Lamming: All the Lads - A Complete Who's Who of Sunderland AFC Polar Print Group Ltd, Leicester 2000, ISBN 1-899538-15-1 , pp. 270 .

Web links

• William Maxwell in the database of the Scottish Football Association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Belgium National Team Coaches on rsssf.com (English)
2. ↑ Trainers in de loop van de Cercle-geschiedenis on cerclebrugge.be (Dutch)