Ken Faulkner

Ken Faulkner
Personal information
Full name Kenneth Gordon Faulkner
Date of birth (1923-09-10)10 September 1923
Place of birth Smethwick, England
Date of death 2000 (aged 77)
Place of death Birmingham, England
Position Forward
Youth career
– Smethwick Highfield
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1943–1947 Birmingham City 2 (0)
– Oldbury United
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kenneth Gordon Faulkner (10 September 1923 – 2000) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Birmingham City.

Faulkner was born in Smethwick, Staffordshire. Capped by England at schoolboy level, he had a successful trial with Birmingham City during the Second World War. Faulkner, a forward, played for Birmingham in the 1944–45 season of wartime competition, and also made guest appearances for Coventry City and Port Vale. He made his debut in the penultimate game of the 1946–47 Second Division season, playing at outside right in a 2–0 win at Millwall. The last game of that season proved to be his last for the club; he was released in the 1947 close season and joined Oldbury United.

References

  1. ↑ "Ken Faulkner". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Archived from the original on 8 June 2024. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  2. 1 2 "England & Wales deaths 1837–2007 Transcription". Kenneth Gordon Faulkner. Birth date: 10 Sep 1923. Death quarter: 4. Death year: 2000. District: Birmingham. County: Warwickshire. District number: 0611B. Register number: B19B. Entry number: 210. Date of registration mm/yy: 1200. Retrieved 21 July 2015 – via Findmypast.
  3. ↑ "Birmingham City : 1946/47–2007/08". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
  4. 1 2 Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
  5. ↑ Matthews, p. 239.
  6. ↑ Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 99. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
  7. ↑ Matthews, p. 182.