Alan Ainscow

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Alan Ainscow

Full name	Alan Ainscow
Date of birth	July 15, 1953
Place of birth	Bolton, England
Playing position	Midfielder (retired)
Club information
Current club	Burscough (under-17 coach)
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1971-1978 1978-1981 1981-1983 1982-1983 1983-1984 1984-1986 1985-1989 1989-1990	Blackpool Birmingham Everton → Barnsley (loan) Eastern AA Wolves Blackburn Rovers Rochdale	192 (28) 108 (16) 028 0(3) 002 0(0) 00? 0(?) 058 0(5) 065 0(5) 020 0(0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of January 8, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

This article is about Alan Ainscow the footballer; for the politician, see here.

Alan Ainscow (born 15 July 1953 in Bolton, Greater Manchester) is a former English professional footballer.

Ainscow began his career with Blackpool as an apprentice, making his debut in July 1971. In the Anglo-Italian Cup final against Bologna, still without a league appearance, he played an excellent game before being substituted before the end of normal time due to exhaustion.^[1]

His league debut came at the start of the 1971-72 season. He scored in a win over Swindon. It took a while for him to become a regular. It was after the departure of Tommy Hutchison that he became almost an ever-present in the Tangerines line-up.

Ainscow could play on either flank, although he later found himself lying deeper. In 1972/73, he was joint-top scorer with Alan Suddick.

After 193 appearances for the Seasiders, in July 1978 he was transferred to Birmingham for £40,000.

Three years later, in August 1981, he joined Everton. After a loan spell at Barnsley, he went on to play for Eastern of Hong Kong, Wolves, Blackbun Rovers and Rochdale before. He moved into non-league football with Horwich RMI in 1990.

After a long spell out of the game, Ainscow was appointed as joint coach to the Under-17 team of Burscough in August 2005.[1]