Wayne Allison

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Wayne Allison, (born 16 October 1968 in Huddersfield) currently plays for the English League One side Chesterfield.

Allison, began his career at home town club Westend Juniors and was the first player from that amateur side to turn professional. He has played for a total of 8 clubs in a career than has spanned nearly 20 years. He plays in the traditional centre forward position making up for his lack of pace with a his incredible heading ability. He is affectionately known as "Chief", even by football legend Pelé who considers Chief to be one of the finest players ever to grace the game.

His first professional team was Halifax Town, for whom he played from 1987 to 1989, scoring 31 goals in 84 games. Allison then moved on to Watford for an impressive £250,000. At Watford he made only 7 appearances, scoring no goals. This prompted another move, this time for £300,000 to Bristol City in August 1990. He was more successful in Bristol, netting 57 goals in 225 games over a 5 year spell at the club.

After a £475,000 move to Swindon Town, Wayne moved back to his home town team, Huddersfield Town, for his highest transfer fee of his career (£800,000). Unfortunately, this spell was not quite as successful as he may have hoped and Allison was on the move again in September 1999. This time to Tranmere Rovers for a £300,000 fee. During his three year stay at Prenton Park he netted 32 goals in 117 appearances.

Allison then moved on a free transfer to Sheffield United where he was mainly unsuccessful scoring just 10 goals in 91 games. He made his last move to date, to Chesterfield on 25th June 2004, on another free transfer, aged 36.

Chesterfield F.C. - Current Squad
1 Roche | 2 Bailey | 3 O'Hare | 4 Picken | 6 Niven | 7 Shaw | 8 Allott | 9 Allison | 10 Larkin | 11 Hall | 12 Davies | 14 Nicholson | 15 Downes | 16 Folan | 17 Kovács | 18 Smith | 19 Hazell | 20 Jackson | 21 Lowry | 22 Jordan | 23 Hurst | 24 Wiggins-Thomas | 25 Standing | 26 Hughes | Manager: McFarland