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Tony Knapp

Tony Knapp at Viking Stadion, 10 July 2008.
Personal information
Full name	Anthony Knapp
Date of birth	(1936-10-13) 13 October 1936
Place of birth	Newstead, England
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
	SK Vidar
	Djerv 1919
	Sandnes Ulf
2003	Staal Jørpeland
	Stavanger IF
2004–2005	Hundvåg FK
2007–2008	Lillesand IL
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Anthony Knapp (born 13 October 1936 in Newstead, Nottinghamshire) is an English former footballer, a notable defender in the English football league in the 1960s.

Career

He was training with Nottingham Forest before becoming professional, as a player for Leicester City (1955–61, 86 matches), Southampton FC (1961–67, 260 matches, 2 goal), 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 F.C. (1971–72, also player) and as an assistant coach to Norwich City. He then had success with the amateurs Iceland national football team (1974–77, A, U18, U21) as in their beating the East Germany national football team 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 has coached lower division clubs around Stavanger, such as SK Vidar, Djerv 1919, Sandnes Ulf, Staal (from Jørpeland, 2003), Stavanger IF, Hundvåg FK (2004–05) and Lillesand IL (2007–08), before he retired due to illness.

Personal life

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

Honours

Southampton

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

References

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