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{{short description|English footballer}}
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| death_place = [[Brighton-le-Sands, Merseyside]], England
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| position = [[Goalkeeper (association football)|Goalkeeper]]
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'''Gordon West''' (24 April 1943 —– 10 June 2012) was an English professional [[goalkeeper (association football)|football goalkeeper]]. He won three international caps in a career that included a long stint at [[Everton F.C.|Everton]].
 
==Club career==
 
===Blackpool===
West played as a defender for [[Barnsley F.C.|Barnsley]], Don and Dearne Boys, but when accompanying a friend to a trial with [[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]] decided to try out as a goalkeeper.<ref name="Guardian obit">{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/jun/11/gordon-west | title=Gordon West obituary | work=The Guardian | date=11 June 2012 | access-date=12 June 2012 | author=Szczepanik, Nick}}</ref> The Lancashire club signed him, and West made his debut for Blackpool at the age of 17.<ref name=Gillatt>{{cite book|last=Gillatt|first=Peter|title=Blackpool FC onOn This Day: History, Facts and Figures from Every Day of the Year |publisher=Pitch Publishing Ltd|date=30 November 2009|isbn=978-1-905411-50-4}}</ref> After 33 League games for ''the Tangerines'', he signed for [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] in March 1962 for £27,000, then a British record for a goalkeeper,<ref name=Gillatt/> replacing [[Albert Dunlop]].
 
===Everton===
In his first full season on Merseyside, West won the [[1962–63 Football League First Division]] with Everton.<ref name="Guardian obit" /> He became the club's first-choice goalkeeper for more than ten years, forming a partnership with central defender and captain, [[Brian Labone]].<ref name="Guardian obit" /> In that period he won the [[FA Cup]] in [[1966 FA Cup Final|1966]] and was a runner-up in [[1968 FA Cup Final|1968]].<ref name="Guardian obit" /> In [[1969–70 Football League First Division|1969–70]] Everton won the league again, with West keeping 21 clean sheets, still a club record.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/2012/06/11/gordon-west-1943-2012 | title=Gordon West 1943-2012 | publisher=Everton F.C. | work=evertonfc.com | date=11 June 2012 | access-date=12 June 2012 | author=Lewis, Andy | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616225236/http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/2012/06/11/gordon-west-1943-2012 | archive-date=16 June 2012 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He made 399 appearances for ''the Toffees'' and retired in 1973.<ref name="Evertonprofile">{{cite web | url=http://www.evertonfc.com/history/gordon-west.html | title=Gordon West | access-date=10 June 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110508131545/http://www.evertonfc.com/history/gordon-west.html | archive-date=8 May 2011 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
 
===Tranmere Rovers===
 
West came out of retirement after three years to play briefly for cross-[[River Mersey|Mersey]] rivals [[Tranmere Rovers F.C.|Tranmere Rovers]]. He made seventeen League appearances for [[the Wirral]] club.
 
==Career Statistics==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition <ref>Sourced from Rothmans Football Yearbooks and Everton The Official Complete Record by Steve Johnson</ref>
|-
!rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season
!colspan="3"|League
!colspan="2"|FA Cup
!colspan="2"|League Cup
!colspan="2"|Europe
!colspan="2"|FA Charity Shield
!colspan="2"|Total
|-
!Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals
|-
|rowspan="3"|[[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]]
|[[1960–61 in English football|1960–61]]
|First Division
|18||0||1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||19||0
|-
|[[1961–62 in English football|1961–62]]
|First Division
|12||0||2||0
||0||0||0||0||0||0||14||0
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!30!!0!!3!!0
!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!33!!0
|-
|rowspan="13"|[[Everton F.C.|Everton]]
|[[1961–62 in English football|1961–62]]
|First Division
|16||0||1||0
||0||0||0||0||0||0||17||0
|-
|[[1962–63 in English football|1962–63]]
|First Division
|38||0||3||0||0||0||2||0||0||0||43||0
|-
|[[1963–64 in English football|1963–64]]
|First Division
|22||0||3||0||0||0||2||0||1||0||28||0
|-
|[[1964–65 in English football|1964–65]]
|First Division
|20||0||4||0||0||0||2||0||0||0||26||0
|-
|[[1965–66 in English football|1965–66]]
|First Division
|24||0||8||0||0||0||2||0||0||0||34||0
|-
|[[1966–67 in English football|1966–67]]
|First Division
|36||0||5||0||0||0||4||0||1||0||46||0
|-
|[[1967–68 in English football|1967–68]]
|First Division
|41||0||6||0||2||0||0||0||0||0||49||0
|-
|[[1968–69 in English football|1968–69]]
|First Division
|42||0||5||0||4||0||0||0||0||0||51||0
|-
|[[1969–70 in English football|1969–70]]
|First Division
|42||0||1||0||4||0||0||0||0||0||47||0
|-
|[[1970–71 in English football|1970–71]]
|First Division
|12||0||1||0||0||0||1||0||1||0||15||0
|-
|[[1971–72 in English football|1971–72]]
|First Division
|42||0||4||0||1||0||0||0||0||0||47||0
|-
|[[1972–73 in English football|1972–73]]
|First Division
|4||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||4||0
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!335!!0!!40!!0!!11!!0!!13!!0!!3!!0!!402!!0
|-
|rowspan="4"|[[Tranmere Rovers F.C.|Tranmere Rovers]]
|[[1976–77 in English football|1976-77]]
|Third Division
|11||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||11||0
|-
|[[1977–78 in English football|1977–78]]
|Third Division
|1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||1||0
|-
|[[1978–79 in English football|1977–78]]
|Third Division
|5||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||5||0
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!17!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!17!!0
|-
!colspan="3"|Career total
!382!!0!!43!!0!!11!!0!!13!!0!!3!!0!!452!!0
|}
 
==International career==
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==Life after football==
 
After giving up football, West worked in security at [[RAF Woodvale]]<ref name="Evertonprofile" /> and became an after dinner speaker. Former Everton and Wales goalkeeper [[Neville Southall]] campaigned for West to be rewarded with a testimonial game by Everton for his eleven years of service.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} West lived in [[Brighton-le-Sands, Merseyside]]. On 10 June 2012, West died<ref name="Death">{{cite web | url=http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/2012/06/10/gordon-west-passes-away | title=Gordon West | access-date=10 June 2012}}</ref> of cancer in hospital.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/2012/06/11/tributes-pour-in-for-everton-fc-legend-west-after-he-loses-his-cancer-battle-100252-31155071/|title=Gordon West dies of cancer|website=www.liverpoolecho.co.uk}}</ref>
 
His funeral was attended by [[Martin Buchan]], [[Colin Harvey]], [[Dave Hickson]], [[John Hurst (footballer)|John Hurst]], [[Cliff Marshall]], [[Peter Reid]], [[George Telfer]], [[Derek Temple]], [[Tommy Wright (footballer, born 1944)|Tommy Wright]] and former player and manager [[Joe Royle]], along with former chairman [[Philip Carter|Sir Philip Carter]], who paid tribute at the service.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.evertonfpf.org/2012/06/gordon-west-r-i-p/|title=Gordon West Funeral|website=www.evertonfpf.org}}</ref>
 
==Honours==
;'''Everton'''<ref name="Guardian obit" />
*[[Football League First Division]]: [[1962–63 Football League First Division|1962–63]], [[1969–70 Football League First Division|1969–70]]
*[[FA Cup]]: [[1965–66 FA Cup|1965–66]];<ref Runnername="FACW"/> runner-up: [[1967–68 FA Cup|1967–68]]<ref name="FACW">{{cite book |first1=Leslie |first2=Jack |last1=Vernon |last2=Rollin |title=Rothmans Football Yearbook 1977–78 |year=1977 |publisher=Brickfield Publications Ltd |location=London |isbn=0354 09018 6 |page=491}}</ref>
*[[FA Charity Shield]]: [[1963 FA Charity Shield|1963]], [[1970 FA Charity Shield|1970]]<ref>{{cite web|title=1963/64 Charity Shield |url=http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/CommunityShield/1963-64CharityShield.htm|publisher=footballsite.co.uk|access-date=12 April 2020}}</ref> [[1970 FA Charity Shield|1970]]<ref>{{cite web|title=1970/71 Charity Shield |url=http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/CommunityShield/1970-71CharityShield.htm|publisher=footballsite.co.uk|access-date=12 April 2020|archive-date=7 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111107211732/http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/CommunityShield/1970-71CharityShield.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
==References==
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==External links==
*{{Englandstats}}
*[http://www.englandstats.com/playerreport.php?pid=1037 England profile]
*{{NeilBrownPlayers|player/gordonwest}}
 
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