| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Place of birth | England | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1986–1988 | A.F.C. Bournemouth | 71 | (16) |
| 1988–1989 | Birmingham City | 19 | (2) |
| 1989–1990 | Peterborough United | 20 | (5) |
| 1990–1992 | Blackpool | 41 | (8) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Carl Richards is an English former professional footballer. He played for four Football League clubs in a six-year professional career during the 1980s and 1990s, making over 200 League appearances. He played as a forward.
Richards signed for A.F.C. Bournemouth from non-League side Enfield in 1986. He made 71 league appearances for the Cherries in two years with the club, scoring sixteen goals.
In 1988 he signed for Birmingham City. In one season at St. Andrews, he made nineteen league appearances and scored two goals.
Peterborough United signed Richards in 1989, and in one season with the Posh, he made twenty league appearances and scored five goals.
In 1990 he joined Jimmy Mullen's Blackpool. He made his debut for the club on 3 February, in a 3–1 victory over Mansfield Town at Bloomfield Road. He scored the hosts' third goal. He went on to make a further fifteen league appearances in the 1989–90 campaign, scoring three more goals in the process (including the only goal of the game in a victory Leyton Orient on 20 March. At the season's end, however, Blackpool were relegated to Division Four, and Jimmy Mullen was sacked.[1]
Mullen was replaced by Graham Carr for the start of the 1990–91 season. Carr did not start in any of Carr's seventeen league games in charge, but he did appear in one League Cup and one FA Cup tie under Carr.[2]
Carr was sacked at the end of November, and his replacement, Billy Ayre, eventually gave Richards a starting place alongside Dave Bamber. Richards made 22 league appearances in 1990–91 and scored four goals.[2]
In 1991–92, Richards made just three league appearances as Blackpool won promotion back to the third tier of English football via the end-of-season play-offs.[3]
Richards left Blackpool to return to Enfield, where he finished his career.