Steve Finney

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Steve Finney
Personal information
Full name	Stephen Kenneth Finney
Date of birth	October 31, 1973 (1973-10-31) (age 34)
Place of birth	Hexham, England
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position	Striker
Youth clubs
1990–1992	Preston North End
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1992–1993 1993–1995 1995–1998 1997 1998–1999 1999 1999 1999–2000 2000–c.2002	Preston North End Manchester City Swindon Town → Cambridge United (loan) Carlisle United Leyton Orient Barrow Chester City Altrincham	0 6 0 0(1) 0 0 0 0(0) 0 73 00(18) 0 7 0 0 (2) 0 33 00(6) 0 5 0 0 (0) 0 ? 0 0 (?) 0 22 0 0(0) 0 ? 0 0 (?)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Steve Finney (born October 31, 1973, Hexham) is a former English professional footballer who played as a forward. He made appearances in The Football League for six clubs

Contents 1 Playing Career 2 Honours 3 External Links 4 References

[edit] Playing Career

Finney began his career as an apprentice with Preston North End, where he made his professional debut during 1991–92. After just six league appearances he moved to Premier League side Manchester City in February 1993, but he failed to make the first team while at Maine Road.

In the summer of 1995, Finney moved to Swindon Town, scoring 12 times in his first season to help them to the Division Two title. Apart from a loan spell with Cambridge United in 1997, Finney remained with Swindon until July 1998, when he moved to Carlisle United. But before the 1998–99 season had finished, Finney had moved on to Leyton Orient for a short spell with the London club.

Finney spent time on trial with Exeter City in the summer of 1999,^[1] and then dropped into non–league football with Barrow before returning to The Football League with struggling Chester City on October 18, 1999 after sending his CV to the club.^[2] During his 14 month stint at the club, he failed to score a competitive goal and was part of the side that were relegated to the Nationwide Conference. In December 2000 he joined Altrincham, initially on loan. He made an instant impact with a hat–trick against Whitby Town.^[3] It is not clear who he played for after this.

[edit] Honours

Swindon Town

• Football League Division Two champions: 1995–96 (30 apps, 12 goals)

[edit] External Links

• Steve Finney career stats at Soccerbase (pre-Chester)
• Steve Finney career stats at Soccerbase (Chester)

[edit] References