Kevin Hitchcock

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Kevin Hitchcock
Personal information
Full name Kevin Hitchcock
Date of birth October 5, 1962 (1962-10-05) (age 45)
Place of birth    Canning Town, England
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club Blackburn Rovers
(Goalkeeper coach)
Youth clubs
1982-1983 Barking
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1983-1984
1984
1984-1988
1988-2001
1990
2001-2004
Nottingham Forest
Mansfield Town (loan)
Mansfield Town
Chelsea
Northampton Town (loan)
Watford
000 (0)
014 (0)
168 (0)
096 (0)
017 (0)
000 (0)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Kevin Hitchcock (born October 5, 1962 in Canning Town, England) is a former Goalkeeper and spent most of his career at Chelsea. He is currently employed as the goalkeeper coach at Blackburn Rovers.

He made his First Team debut on the 26th of March, 1988 in a 1-0 defeat to Southampton. He was at Chelsea from 1988-2001 and made 96 league appearances, 4 of which were from the bench. He left Chelsea in 2001 to take up the post of goalkeeper coach at Watford who had just appointed his former Chelsea boss Gianluca Vialli as their new manager. He left Watford in 2004 to team up with ex Chelsea team mate Mark Hughes at Blackburn.