Jimmy Greaves

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Jimmy Greaves
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Full name:	James Peter Greaves
Date of birth:	20 February 1940(1940-02-20)
Place of birth:	Manor Park, England
Date of death:	19 September 2021(2021-09-19) (aged 81)
Place of death:	Danbury, England
Height:	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position:	Striker
Youth clubs
1955-1957	Chelsea
Senior clubs
Years	Club	App (Gls)
1957-1961 1961 1961-1970 1970-1971 1975-1976 1976-1977 1977-1979 1979-1980	Chelsea Milan Tottenham Hotspur West Ham United Brentwood Town Chelmsford City Barnet Woodford Town	157 (124) 010 00(9) 320 (220) 038 00(3) 038 0(20) 051 0(16)
National team
1957-1962 1959-1967 1965	England U23 England United Kingdom	012 0(13) 057 0(44) 001 00(1)

James Peter "Jimmy" Greaves (20 February 1940 – 19 September 2021) was an English professional footballer who played as a forward. He is England's fifth highest international goalscorer (44 goals), Tottenham Hotspur's second highest ever goalscorer (268 goals, though Spurs do not count his brace in the 1962 FA Charity Shield which would lower him to 266), the highest goalscorer in the history of English top-flight football (357 goals), and has also scored more hat-tricks (six) for England than anyone else. He finished as the First Division's top scorer in six seasons. He is a member of the English Football Hall of Fame.

External links

• jimmygreaves.net The official website of Jimmy Greaves

England – 1962 FIFA World Cup

1. Springett 2. Armfield 3. Wilson 4. Robson 5. Swan 6. Flowers 7. Connelly 8. Greaves 9. Hitchens 10. Haynes 11. Charlton 12. Hodgkinson 13. Kevan 14. Anderson 15. Norman 16. Moore 17. Douglas 18. Hunt 19. Peacock 20. Eastham 21. Howe 22. Banks Manager:   Winterbottom

England – 1966 FIFA World Cup – Winners

1. Banks 2. Cohen 3. Wilson 4. Stiles 5. J. Charlton 6. Moore 7. Ball 8. Greaves 9. B. Charlton 10. Hurst 11. Connelly 12. Springett 13. Bonetti 14. Armfield 15. Byrne 16. Peters 17. Flowers 18. Hunter 19. Paine 20. Callaghan 21. Hunt 22. Eastham Manager:   Ramsey

England – UEFA Euro 1968

1. Banks 2. Newton 3. Wilson 4. Mullery 5. Labone 6. Moore 7. Ball 8. Hunt 9. B. Charlton 10. Hurst 11. Peters 12. Stepney 13. West 14. Knowles 15. J. Charlton 16. Wright 17. Stiles 18. Summerbee 19. Hunter 20. Bell 21. Greaves 22. Thompson Manager:   Ramsey