Tony Knapp

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Anthony Knapp (13 October 1936 – 22 March 2023) was an English football player and manager, who played as a defender in the English football league in the 1960s.

Tony Knapp

Knapp at Viking Stadion in 2008
Personal information
Full name	Anthony Knapp
Date of birth	(1936-10-13)13 October 1936
Place of birth	Newstead, England
Date of death	22 March 2023(2023-03-22) (aged 86)
Place of death	Jørpeland, Norway
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
	Nottingham Forest
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1955–1961	Leicester City	86	(0)
1961–1967	Southampton	233	(2)
1967–1968	Coventry City	11	(0)
1968	Los Angeles Wolves	30	(1)
1969–1971	Tranmere Rovers	36	(1)
1971–1972	Poole Town
Managerial career
1971–1972	Poole Town
1974–1975	Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur
1974–1977	Iceland
1978–1981	Viking FK
1982–1983	Fredrikstad FK
1984–1985	Iceland
1986–1987	SK Brann
	FK Vidar
	Djerv 1919
	Sandnes Ulf
2003	Staal Jørpeland
	Stavanger IF
2004–2005	Hundvåg FK
2007–2008	Lillesand IL
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Knapp was born in Newstead, Nottinghamshire. He trained with Nottingham Forest before becoming professional, as a player for Leicester City (1955–61, 86 matches), Southampton (1961–67, 260 matches, 2 goals), Coventry City (1967–68, 11 matches), Los Angeles Wolves (1968) and Tranmere Rovers (1969–71, 36 matches, 1 goal).

His career as a manager started in Poole Town (1971–72, also player) and as an assistant coach to Norwich City. He then had success with the amateurs Iceland national team (1974–77, A, U18, U21) as in their beating East Germany 2–1 (1975). In Norway he had success with Viking FK (1978–81, winning the double 1979), Fredrikstad FK (1982–83), again Iceland (1984–85), and SK Brann (1986–87, cupfinalist). Since then Knapp had coached several lower division clubs in Rogaland, such as FK Vidar, Djerv 1919, Sandnes Ulf, Staal Jørpeland (2003), Stavanger IF and Hundvåg FK (2004–05), as well as Lillesand IL (2007–08) in Aust-Agder, before he retired due to illness.

Personal life and death

As of February 2020, Knapp was residing in Jørpeland in Norway with his wife and children.

Knapp died on 22 March 2023, at the age of 86.

Honours

Southampton

• Football League Second Division runners-up: 1965–66

External links

• Tony Knapp, Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database