Chris Kirkland
Encyclopedia
Christopher Edmund "Chris" Kirkland (born 2 May 1981 in Leicestershire
, England
) is an English footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Wigan Athletic
in the Premier League. He also has one cap
for the England national team
.
Kirkland started out at Coventry City where he was regarded as one of the country's most promising goalkeepers.
He was signed by Liverpool
for £6m in 2001. However, his time at the club was blighted by recurring injury problems, and as a result almost caused him to retire from football prematurely.
Following a successful loan spell, Kirkland signed for Wigan Athletic
in 2006. Although still somewhat hampered by injuries, he has made over 120 appearances for the club.
, Leicestershire
, where he grew up with his parents, Marie and Eddie, and attended Heathfield School. As a teenager, Kirkland trained with Coventry City
and Leicester City
. After an unsuccessful trial with Blackburn Rovers
, he accepted a contract offer from Coventry. He signed professional terms with the club in July 1998.
against Tranmere Rovers
on 22 September 1999. He shot to prominence as one of the most promising young English keepers in the country in the 2000–01 season
when he replaced Swedish
international Magnus Hedman
as first choice goalkeeper at the club. His performances were rewarded at the end of the season when he made his debut for the England under-21's
, and was voted Coventry's Young Player of the Year by the club's supporters. He was bought by Liverpool
for £6m on the last day of the transfer window at the start of the 2001–02 season
. At the time he was the most expensive goalkeeper in British transfer history, at only 20 years old.
in his first season at the club. During the following season, costly errors by Dudek in a league fixture against Manchester United
handed the jersey to Kirkland. He played 14 consecutive matches, during which he kept six clean sheets, but sustained an ankle injury in January 2003, which ruled him out for the rest of the season. A succession of recurring injury problems in the seasons that followed prevented him from ever returning to the side as the regular first choice goalkeeper.
At the beginning of the 2004–05 season, Kirkland found himself with the chance to make an impact on the fortunes of Liverpool and England, having ousted his friend Dudek as first-choice Liverpool keeper. His good form and lack of injury
was seen as welcome news for Liverpool and England fans.
2005, however, did not start well for Kirkland, with his Liverpool career once again interrupted by injury. Having begun his Anfield
career as the future England Number 1, a series of ineffective performances for the Reds, coupled with a string of injuries, meant that Kirkland had slipped down the goalkeeping pecking order behind Dudek and new signing Scott Carson
. He featured in four of Liverpool's six group games in the Champions League as Liverpool went on to win the trophy, but was injured throughout the latter stages of the tournament.
. His move to The Hawthorns bore immediate fruit for Kirkland as he was called up to replace Manchester City
player David James
as second-choice keeper for the England squad. An injury to Kirkland in the first half of the season saw Polish goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak
replace him and remain West Brom's first choice goalkeeper for the rest of the season.
In July 2006, Kirkland joined Wigan Athletic
on a six-month loan spell. This move became permanent on 27 October 2006 when the two clubs and Kirkland made a compromise. He signed with Wigan Athletic for three years, until the end of the 2008–09 season. He was given the number 1 jersey for the 2007–08 season and became the first-choice goalkeeper of new manager Steve Bruce
. Kirkland won the club's Players' Player of the Year and Media Player of the Year awards for 2007–08. He committed his future to Wigan in May 2008 when he signed a new contract, tying him to the club until 2012.
Kirkland opened the 2009–10 campaign by keeping a clean sheet for Wigan Athletic away to Aston Villa. Unfortunately, shortly after he conceded five in the second half, at home to Manchester United. On 18 October 2009, Kirkland dislocated his finger during a match against Manchester City; play stopped temporarily as his finger was popped back in. He completed the match. On 22 November, Kirkland conceded nine goals in a Premier League game against Tottenham Hotspur
.
At the start of the 2010–11 season
, Wigan were heavily defeated in their first two games against Blackpool
and Chelsea
, and was replaced in the starting lineup by Ali Al-Habsi
.
On 25 November, Kirkland joined his hometown Leicester City on loan until January. A back spasm suffered during training in early December nearly ended his stint at the club, but he resumed his loan after making a speedy recovery. He made his debut in a 3-0 defeat to Ipswich Town on 19 December 2010. Kirkland returned to Wigan for treatment on his back injury, after making three appearances for Leicester. He was stretchered off after a collision with Johan Elmander
in a 1-1 draw against Bolton Wanderers on 5 January 2011; Kirkland was in the Wigan squad due to Ali Al-Habsi's ineligibility to play against his parent club.
Kirkland was going to join Cardiff City
on emergency loan, in February 2011, as cover for the Bluebirds keeper Tom Heaton but the deal fell through.
On October 12, 2011, Kirkland joined nPower Championship Doncaster Rovers on loan until January after attracting interest from new manager Dean Saunders
. Less than a week into his loan spell, however, Kirkland was sent back to parent club Wigan following another back spasm.
and was regularly selected for the senior squad
from 2003 onwards, but did not make an appearance until he came on as a substitute for the second half of a friendly against Greece
in August 2006. When Kirkland was eleven years old, his father and some family friends had placed bets of £100 each at 100/1 odds that he would play for England before the age of thirty. Kirkland's appearance netted the syndicate £10,000 each.
the next day.
In April 2008 Kirkland teamed up with fellow professionals Kevin Davies
and Brett Emerton
to help launch the Get Started programme, a national scheme which aims to tackle re-offending. He visited Hindley
Youth Offenders' Institution in support of the scheme, which is delivered by the Prince's Trust in partnership with the Premier League, the PFA
and the Football Foundation.
He has expressed a desire to become a firefighter
when his playing career comes to an end.
|1998–99
||rowspan="4"|Coventry City
||rowspan="3"|Premier League||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
|1999–00||0||0||0||0||1||0||0||0||1||0
|-
|2000–01
||23||0||1||0||3||0||0||0||27||0
|-
|2001–02||Division 1
||1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||1||0
|-
!colspan="3"|Coventry City Total
!24!!0!!1!!0!!4!!0!!0!!0!!29!!0
|-
|2001–02
||rowspan="4"|Liverpool
||rowspan="4"|Premier League||1||0||0||0||1||0||2||0||4||0
|-
|2002–03
||8||0||2||0||4||0||1||0||15||0
|-
|2003–04
||6||0||1||0||1||0||4||0||12||0
|-
|2004–05
||10||0||0||0||0||0||4||0||14||0
|-
!colspan="3"|Liverpool Total
!25!!0!!3!!0!!6!!0!!11!!0!!45!!0
|-
|2005–06
||West Bromwich Albion
(Loan)||rowspan="7"|Premier League||10||0||2||0||0||0||0||0||12||0
|-
|2006–07
||Wigan Athletic
(Loan)||9||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||9||0
|-
|2006–07
||rowspan="5"|Wigan Athletic
||17||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||17||0
|-
|2007–08||37||0||1||0||0||0||0||0||38||0
|-
|2008–09||32||0||0||0||2||0||0||0||34||0
|-
|2009–10||32||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||32||0
|-
|2010–11
||4||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||4||0
|-
|2010–11
||Leicester City
(Loan)||Championship
||3||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||3||0
|-
|2011-12||Doncaster Rovers
(Loan)||Championship
||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
!colspan="3"|Wigan Athletic Total
!131!!0!!1!!0!!2!!0!!0!!0!!134!!0
|-
193||0||7||0||12||0||11||0||223||0
Stats accurate as of 17:24, 15 May 2010.
Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
) is an English footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Wigan Athletic
Wigan Athletic F.C.
Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English Premier League Association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, having been promoted from the Championship in 2005. Wigan's current spell in the Premier League is the only top flight run in the club's history.They have played at the DW...
in the Premier League. He also has one cap
Cap (sport)
In sports, a cap is a metaphorical term for a player's appearance on a select team, such as a national team. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of association football...
for the England national team
England national football team
The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
.
Kirkland started out at Coventry City where he was regarded as one of the country's most promising goalkeepers.
He was signed by Liverpool
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...
for £6m in 2001. However, his time at the club was blighted by recurring injury problems, and as a result almost caused him to retire from football prematurely.
Following a successful loan spell, Kirkland signed for Wigan Athletic
Wigan Athletic F.C.
Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English Premier League Association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, having been promoted from the Championship in 2005. Wigan's current spell in the Premier League is the only top flight run in the club's history.They have played at the DW...
in 2006. Although still somewhat hampered by injuries, he has made over 120 appearances for the club.
Early life and career
Kirkland was born in BarwellBarwell
Barwell is a civil parish and large village in Leicestershire, England, with a population of around 8,750 people. The name literally translates as "Stream of the Boar" and is said to originate from a boar that used to drink from the well near a brook in Barwell. It was originally known as Borewell,...
, Leicestershire
Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...
, where he grew up with his parents, Marie and Eddie, and attended Heathfield School. As a teenager, Kirkland trained with Coventry City
Coventry City F.C.
Coventry City Football Club, otherwise known as the Sky Blues owing to the traditional colour of their strip, are a professional English Football league club based in Coventry...
and Leicester City
Leicester City F.C.
Leicester City Football Club , also known as The Foxes, is an English professional football club based at the King Power Stadium in Leicester...
. After an unsuccessful trial with Blackburn Rovers
Blackburn Rovers F.C.
Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. The team currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football....
, he accepted a contract offer from Coventry. He signed professional terms with the club in July 1998.
Coventry City
Kirkland made his debut for Coventry in the League CupFootball League Cup
The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup or, from current sponsorship, the Carling Cup, is an English association football competition. Like the FA Cup, it is played on a knockout basis...
against Tranmere Rovers
Tranmere Rovers F.C.
Tranmere Rovers Football Club are an English team based in Birkenhead, Wirral. The club currently compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system...
on 22 September 1999. He shot to prominence as one of the most promising young English keepers in the country in the 2000–01 season
2000-01 in English football
The 2000–01 season was the 121st season of competitive football in England.-Overview:Manchester United secured their 3rd Premiership title in succession and their 7th title in just nine seasons...
when he replaced Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
international Magnus Hedman
Magnus Hedman
Magnus Carl Hedman is a Swedish former football goalkeeper. He played 58 matches for the Sweden national football team, and represented his country at two FIFA World Cup and two European Championship tournaments....
as first choice goalkeeper at the club. His performances were rewarded at the end of the season when he made his debut for the England under-21's
England national under-21 football team
England's national Under-21 football team, also known as England Under-21s or England U21, is considered to be the feeder team for the England national football team....
, and was voted Coventry's Young Player of the Year by the club's supporters. He was bought by Liverpool
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...
for £6m on the last day of the transfer window at the start of the 2001–02 season
2001-02 in English football
The 2001-02 season was the 122nd season of competitive football in England.-Arsenal cruise to title glory:In what had earlier been one of the most closely fought Premiership title races for years, Arsenal won the championship by seven points. Their crown was won in the penultimate game of the...
. At the time he was the most expensive goalkeeper in British transfer history, at only 20 years old.
Liverpool
Kirkland made his debut for Liverpool in October 2001, but mostly served as understudy to first-choice goalkeeper Jerzy DudekJerzy Dudek
Jerzy Henryk Dudek is a retired Polish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.After beginning his career in his home country, he went on to have successful spells in Netherlands and England, winning the UEFA Champions League with Liverpool in 2005, appearing in 186 official games for the club over...
in his first season at the club. During the following season, costly errors by Dudek in a league fixture against Manchester United
Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...
handed the jersey to Kirkland. He played 14 consecutive matches, during which he kept six clean sheets, but sustained an ankle injury in January 2003, which ruled him out for the rest of the season. A succession of recurring injury problems in the seasons that followed prevented him from ever returning to the side as the regular first choice goalkeeper.
At the beginning of the 2004–05 season, Kirkland found himself with the chance to make an impact on the fortunes of Liverpool and England, having ousted his friend Dudek as first-choice Liverpool keeper. His good form and lack of injury
Injury
-By cause:*Traumatic injury, a body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or accident*Other injuries from external physical causes, such as radiation injury, burn injury or frostbite*Injury from infection...
was seen as welcome news for Liverpool and England fans.
2005, however, did not start well for Kirkland, with his Liverpool career once again interrupted by injury. Having begun his Anfield
Anfield
Anfield is an association football stadium in the district of Anfield, Liverpool, England, with a seating capacity of 45,522. It has been the home of Liverpool F.C. since their formation in 1892 and was originally the home of Everton F.C. from 1884 to 1892, before they moved to Goodison Park...
career as the future England Number 1, a series of ineffective performances for the Reds, coupled with a string of injuries, meant that Kirkland had slipped down the goalkeeping pecking order behind Dudek and new signing Scott Carson
Scott Carson
Scott Paul Carson is an English footballer who plays for Bursaspor as a goalkeeper.He joined the Leeds United football academy in 2002, making his full first team debut for Leeds against Manchester United in February 2004...
. He featured in four of Liverpool's six group games in the Champions League as Liverpool went on to win the trophy, but was injured throughout the latter stages of the tournament.
West Bromwich Albion
In the summer of 2005 Kirkland agreed to go on a season-long loan to West Bromwich Albion in order to kick-start his career again; he had been moved to fourth in the pecking order, behind new signing José Manuel Reina, Dudek, and Carson. He kept a clean sheet on his Albion debut as the team drew 0–0 away at Manchester CityManchester City F.C.
Manchester City Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Manchester. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's , they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894...
. His move to The Hawthorns bore immediate fruit for Kirkland as he was called up to replace Manchester City
Manchester City F.C.
Manchester City Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Manchester. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's , they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894...
player David James
David James (footballer)
David Benjamin James is an English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bristol City.On 14 February 2009, he achieved the all-time Premier League appearance record with 536 appearances, overtaking Gary Speed. He held this record until being overtaken by Ryan Giggs on the 14th May 2011...
as second-choice keeper for the England squad. An injury to Kirkland in the first half of the season saw Polish goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak
Tomasz Kuszczak
Tomasz Mirosław Kuszczak is a Polish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for English club Manchester United and the Polish national team.Born in Krosno Odrzańskie, Kuszczak has previously played for Śląsk Wrocław in Poland, as well as for the German clubs KFC Uerdingen 05 and Hertha BSC, before...
replace him and remain West Brom's first choice goalkeeper for the rest of the season.
Yeovil Town
In 2005, an injury to Yeovil first choice Chris Weale saw Chris Kirkland make an emergancy loan to Yeovil Town, making 1 appearance before Yeovil Goalkeeper Steve Collis returned and took over the duty.Wigan Athletic
Wigan Athletic F.C.
Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English Premier League Association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, having been promoted from the Championship in 2005. Wigan's current spell in the Premier League is the only top flight run in the club's history.They have played at the DW...
on a six-month loan spell. This move became permanent on 27 October 2006 when the two clubs and Kirkland made a compromise. He signed with Wigan Athletic for three years, until the end of the 2008–09 season. He was given the number 1 jersey for the 2007–08 season and became the first-choice goalkeeper of new manager Steve Bruce
Steve Bruce
Stephen Roger "Steve" Bruce is an English football manager and former player. Born in Corbridge, Northumberland, he was a promising schoolboy footballer but was rejected by a number of professional clubs. He was on the verge of quitting the game altogether when he was offered a trial with Gillingham...
. Kirkland won the club's Players' Player of the Year and Media Player of the Year awards for 2007–08. He committed his future to Wigan in May 2008 when he signed a new contract, tying him to the club until 2012.
Kirkland opened the 2009–10 campaign by keeping a clean sheet for Wigan Athletic away to Aston Villa. Unfortunately, shortly after he conceded five in the second half, at home to Manchester United. On 18 October 2009, Kirkland dislocated his finger during a match against Manchester City; play stopped temporarily as his finger was popped back in. He completed the match. On 22 November, Kirkland conceded nine goals in a Premier League game against Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....
.
At the start of the 2010–11 season
2010–11 Premier League
The 2010–11 Premier League was the 19th season of the Premier League since its establishment in 1992. The 2010–11 fixtures were released on 17 June 2010 at 09:00 BST. The season began on 14 August 2010, and ended on 22 May 2011...
, Wigan were heavily defeated in their first two games against Blackpool
Blackpool F.C.
Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...
and Chelsea
Chelsea F.C.
Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...
, and was replaced in the starting lineup by Ali Al-Habsi
Ali Al-Habsi
Ali Abdullah Harib Al-Habsi , born December 30, 1981 in Muscat) is an Omani professional association football player. He currently plays in the Premier League as a goalkeeper for Wigan Athletic, having played previously for Bolton Wanderers and Lyn Oslo....
.
On 25 November, Kirkland joined his hometown Leicester City on loan until January. A back spasm suffered during training in early December nearly ended his stint at the club, but he resumed his loan after making a speedy recovery. He made his debut in a 3-0 defeat to Ipswich Town on 19 December 2010. Kirkland returned to Wigan for treatment on his back injury, after making three appearances for Leicester. He was stretchered off after a collision with Johan Elmander
Johan Elmander
Johan Erik Calvin Elmander is a Swedish footballer who plays as a striker for Galatasaray and the Sweden national football team. He joined in a free transfer after his contract with English club Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League expired...
in a 1-1 draw against Bolton Wanderers on 5 January 2011; Kirkland was in the Wigan squad due to Ali Al-Habsi's ineligibility to play against his parent club.
Kirkland was going to join Cardiff City
Cardiff City F.C.
Cardiff City Football Club are a Welsh professional football club based in Cardiff, Wales. The club competes in the English football pyramid and is currently playing in the Football League Championship. Cardiff City is the best supported football club in Wales, averaging approximately 22,500 for...
on emergency loan, in February 2011, as cover for the Bluebirds keeper Tom Heaton but the deal fell through.
On October 12, 2011, Kirkland joined nPower Championship Doncaster Rovers on loan until January after attracting interest from new manager Dean Saunders
Dean Saunders
Dean Nicholas Saunders is a former Wales international footballer who played as a striker in a professional career which lasted from 1982 until 2001. He is the manager of Doncaster Rovers....
. Less than a week into his loan spell, however, Kirkland was sent back to parent club Wigan following another back spasm.
International career
He won eight caps with the England under-21 teamEngland national under-21 football team
England's national Under-21 football team, also known as England Under-21s or England U21, is considered to be the feeder team for the England national football team....
and was regularly selected for the senior squad
England national football team
The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
from 2003 onwards, but did not make an appearance until he came on as a substitute for the second half of a friendly against Greece
Greece national football team
The Greece national football team represents Greece in association football and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. Greece's home ground is Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus and their head coach is Fernando Santos...
in August 2006. When Kirkland was eleven years old, his father and some family friends had placed bets of £100 each at 100/1 odds that he would play for England before the age of thirty. Kirkland's appearance netted the syndicate £10,000 each.
Life outside football
He and his wife Leeona had a daughter, Lucy, born on 14 November 2006, which caused him to miss an international friendly match against NetherlandsNetherlands national football team
The Netherlands National Football Team represents the Netherlands in association football and is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association , the governing body for football in the Netherlands...
the next day.
In April 2008 Kirkland teamed up with fellow professionals Kevin Davies
Kevin Davies
Kevin Cyril Davies is an English footballer who currently plays for Bolton Wanderers and the England national football team as a striker. He was made Bolton team captain in January 2009....
and Brett Emerton
Brett Emerton
Brett Michael Emerton is an Australian football player who plays for Sydney FC and the Australia national team...
to help launch the Get Started programme, a national scheme which aims to tackle re-offending. He visited Hindley
Hindley, Greater Manchester
Hindley is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. Lying three miles east of Wigan it covers an area of 1044 hectares. Historically a part of Lancashire, Hindley which includes Hindley Green borders the towns of Ince-in-Makerfield and Leigh within Wigan...
Youth Offenders' Institution in support of the scheme, which is delivered by the Prince's Trust in partnership with the Premier League, the PFA
Professional Footballers' Association
The Professional Footballers' Association is the trade union for professional footballers in England and Wales. The world's oldest professional sport trade union, it has 4,000 members....
and the Football Foundation.
He has expressed a desire to become a firefighter
Firefighter
Firefighters are rescuers extensively trained primarily to put out hazardous fires that threaten civilian populations and property, to rescue people from car incidents, collapsed and burning buildings and other such situations...
when his playing career comes to an end.
Club
|-|1998–99
FA Premier League 1998-99
The 1998–99 FA Premier League season was the seventh season of the Premier League, the top division of English football, since its establishment in 1992. The season will always be remembered as the one in which Manchester United won a unique treble of the league title, the FA Cup and the European Cup...
||rowspan="4"|Coventry City
Coventry City F.C.
Coventry City Football Club, otherwise known as the Sky Blues owing to the traditional colour of their strip, are a professional English Football league club based in Coventry...
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|1999–00||0||0||0||0||1||0||0||0||1||0
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|2000–01
FA Premier League 2000-01
The FA Premier League 2000-01 season was the third season running which ended with Manchester United as champions and Arsenal as runners-up. Sir Alex Ferguson became the first manager to win three successive English league titles, although three teams had achieved that feat in the past - but with...
||23||0||1||0||3||0||0||0||27||0
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|2001–02||Division 1
Football League First Division
The First Division was a division of The Football League between 1888 and 2004 and the highest division in English football until the creation of the Premier League in 1992. The secondary tier in English football has since become known as the Championship....
||1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||1||0
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!colspan="3"|Coventry City Total
!24!!0!!1!!0!!4!!0!!0!!0!!29!!0
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|2001–02
FA Premier League 2001-02
The 2001–02 FA Premier League season was the tenth season of the competition. It began with a new sponsor, Barclaycard, and was titled the FA Barclaycard Premiership, replacing the previous sponsor, Carling...
||rowspan="4"|Liverpool
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...
||rowspan="4"|Premier League||1||0||0||0||1||0||2||0||4||0
|-
|2002–03
FA Premier League 2002-03
The 2002–03 FA Premier League was the eleventh season of the Premier League, the top division in English football. The first matches were played on 17 August 2002 and the last were played on 11 May 2003...
||8||0||2||0||4||0||1||0||15||0
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|2003–04
FA Premier League 2003-04
The 2003–04 FA Premier League season was the twelfth season of the Premier League. In the end, Arsenal went through the season without a single defeat – only the second ever team to do so and were crowned champions once more, at the expense of Chelsea, who had spent heavily throughout the...
||6||0||1||0||1||0||4||0||12||0
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|2004–05
FA Premier League 2004-05
The 2004–05 season of the FA Premier League began on 14 August 2004 and ended on 15 May 2005. Arsenal were the defending champions after going unbeaten the previous season....
||10||0||0||0||0||0||4||0||14||0
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!colspan="3"|Liverpool Total
!25!!0!!3!!0!!6!!0!!11!!0!!45!!0
|-
|2005–06
FA Premier League 2005-06
The 2005–06 season of the FA Premier League began on 13 August 2005, and concluded on 7 May 2006. The season saw Chelsea F.C retain their title after defeating Manchester United 3–0 at Stamford Bridge towards the end of April...
||West Bromwich Albion
West Bromwich Albion F.C.
West Bromwich Albion Football Club, also known as West Brom, The Baggies, The Throstles, Albion or WBA, are an English Premier League association football club based in West Bromwich in the West Midlands...
(Loan)||rowspan="7"|Premier League||10||0||2||0||0||0||0||0||12||0
|-
|2006–07
FA Premier League 2006-07
The 2006–07 FA Premier League was the fifteenth season of the FA Premier League since its establishment in 1992. The season started on 19 August 2006 and concluded on 13 May 2007....
||Wigan Athletic
Wigan Athletic F.C.
Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English Premier League Association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, having been promoted from the Championship in 2005. Wigan's current spell in the Premier League is the only top flight run in the club's history.They have played at the DW...
(Loan)||9||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||9||0
|-
|2006–07
FA Premier League 2006-07
The 2006–07 FA Premier League was the fifteenth season of the FA Premier League since its establishment in 1992. The season started on 19 August 2006 and concluded on 13 May 2007....
||rowspan="5"|Wigan Athletic
Wigan Athletic F.C.
Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English Premier League Association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, having been promoted from the Championship in 2005. Wigan's current spell in the Premier League is the only top flight run in the club's history.They have played at the DW...
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|2008–09||32||0||0||0||2||0||0||0||34||0
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|2009–10||32||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||32||0
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|2010–11
2010–11 Wigan Athletic F.C. season
The 2010–11 English football season is Wigan Athletic F.C.'s 33rd season in the Football League and their sixth consecutive season in the Premier League.-Pre-season:...
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|2010–11
2010–11 Leicester City F.C. season
The 2010–11 season was Leicester City F.C.'s 106th season in the English football league system and their 59th season in the second tier of English football...
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Leicester City F.C.
Leicester City Football Club , also known as The Foxes, is an English professional football club based at the King Power Stadium in Leicester...
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Football League Championship
The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...
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|2011-12||Doncaster Rovers
Doncaster Rovers F.C.
Doncaster Rovers Football Club is an English football club, based at the Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. The team currently competes in the Football League Championship, after being promoted via the League One play-offs in 2008, and have remained there since.The club was founded in...
(Loan)||Championship
Football League Championship
The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...
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!colspan="3"|Wigan Athletic Total
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Stats accurate as of 17:24, 15 May 2010.
Club
Liverpool:- Champions LeagueUEFA Champions LeagueThe UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
: 2004-05 - Charity Shield: 2002-03 (Runner Up)
External links
- FootballDatabase provides Chris Kirkland's profile and stats
- TheFA.com profile
- Chris Kirkland profile on the official Wigan Athletic website