Shaun Smith (English footballer)

Shaun Smith
Personal information
Full name	Gareth Shaun Smith
Date of birth	9 April 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth	Leeds, England
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1989–1991	Halifax Town
1991	Emley
1991–2002	Crewe Alexandra
2002–2004	Hull City
2003	→ Stockport County (loan)
2003	→ Carlisle United (loan)
2004	Rochdale
2004–2006	York City
Total
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gareth Shaun Smith (born 9 April 1971) is an English former professional footballer. Smith spent the majority of his career at Crewe Alexandra, playing in 400 League games and more than 460 overall.

The highlight of Smith's career came when he scored the winner for Crewe Alexandra in their 1-0 victory over Brentford in the 1997 1997 Football League Second Division play-off final at Wembley. This took Crewe into the second tier of English football for the first time in around a century.^[1]^[2]^[3] He had also played in the 1993 Third division final at Wembley, which Crewe lost on penalties to York City. During the first division era Smith played mostly at left back for Crewe and was popular with the supporters despite never being a big star. He won the supporter's player of the year award in 2000–01. Smith eventually left Crewe in the summer of 2002 to join Hull City, where he scored once against Cambridge United,^[4] and a year later had two joint testimonial games (alongside fellow player Steve Macauley) at Crewe's Alexandra Stadium against Merseyside clubs Liverpool and Everton.

Honours

with Crewe Alexandra

Football League Second Division play-off final winner: 1997

References

^ Glanville, Brian (26 May 1997). "Play-off success fuels Gradi's fears of change at Crewe". The Times. p. 33. Retrieved 1 March 2021 – via Gale.
^ Haylett, Trevor (26 May 1997). "Crewe pass final test with style". The Guardian. p. 2. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Wembley joy for Dario's young stars". Liverpool Echo. 26 May 1997. p. 35. Retrieved 2 March 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Cambridge 1-2 Hull". BBC. 7 September 2002. Retrieved 10 February 2013.

External links

Shaun Smith at Soccerbase

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[timesrep-1] Glanville, Brian (26 May 1997). "Play-off success fuels Gradi's fears of change at Crewe". The Times. p. 33. Retrieved 1 March 2021 – via Gale.

[guardrep-2] Haylett, Trevor (26 May 1997). "Crewe pass final test with style". The Guardian. p. 2. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

[lerep-3] "Wembley joy for Dario's young stars". Liverpool Echo. 26 May 1997. p. 35. Retrieved 2 March 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[4] "Cambridge 1-2 Hull". BBC. 7 September 2002. Retrieved 10 February 2013.

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