| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Frank Edward John Rankmore | ||
| Date of birth | 21 July 1939 | ||
| Place of birth | Cardiff, Wales | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1957–1963 | Cardiff City | 67 | (0) |
| 1963–1968 | Peterborough United | 201 | (7) |
| 1968–1971 | Northampton Town | 103 | (15) |
| National team | |||
| 1966 | Wales | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Frank Edward John Rankmore (born 21 July 1939 in Cardiff) is a Welsh former professional footballer and Wales international.
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Rankmore began his league career at Cardiff City after joining the club from local side Cardiff Corinthians in 1957. Unable to break into the first-team, his early time at Ninian Park was spent mostly in the reserve side and at the end of the 1959–60 season he was placed on the transfer list. However, when Danny Malloy left the club in 1961, Rankmore found himself promoted to the first-team, making 37 league appearances during his first full season but was unable to prevent the club slipping out of Division One. After one more season as a first-team regular, Rankmore found himself out of favour again following the arrival of John Charles from Roma and was sold to Division Three side Peterborough United for a fee of £10,000.
He went on to appear over 200 times for Peterborough and was awarded his first, and only,[1] cap for Wales when he played against Chile during a tour of South America in 1966. In 1968 he was sold to local rivals Northampton Town for £12,000, becoming the third Peterborough player to move to Northampton in the space of five months after Johnny Byrne and Jack Fairbrother,[2] where he made over 100 appearance before injury forced him into retirement in 1971.
Rankmore's son, Frank jr, played amateur football and in 2005 scored his 500th career competitive goal while playing for local side Bridgend Street in the South Wales Senior League.[3]