| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Anthony John Sealy | ||
| Date of birth | 7 May 1959 | ||
| Place of birth | Hackney, London, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Wallsend Boys Club | |||
| 1975–1977 | Southampton | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1977–1979 | Southampton | 7 | (0) |
| 1979–1981 | Crystal Palace | 24 | (5) |
| 1980 | → Port Vale (loan) | 17 | (6) |
| 1981–1983 | Queens Park Rangers | 63 | (18) |
| 1982 | → Port Vale (loan) | 6 | (4) |
| 1983 | → Fulham (loan) | 5 | (1) |
| 1984–1985 | Fulham | 20 | (10) |
| 1985–1987 | Leicester City | 39 | (7) |
| 1987 | → Bournemouth (loan) | 13 | (2) |
| 1987–1988 | Sporting Lisbon | 29 | (9) |
| 1988 | S.C. Braga | 4 | (0) |
| 1988–1989 | Brentford | 12 | (4) |
| 1989 | Swindon Town | 0 | (0) |
| 1989–1991 | Bristol Rovers | 37 | (7) |
| 1991 | MYPA | ||
| 1991–1992 | Brentford | 18 | (0) |
| 1992–1993 | Michelotti | ||
| 1993–1994 | Eastern | ||
| 1994–1996 | Hong Kong FC | ||
| Total | 294+ | (73+) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1995– | Hong Kong FC | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Anthony John "Tony" Sealy (born 7 May 1959) is a retired footballer in the 1970s and 1980s. He won four Championship medals with four different clubs and played for numerous clubs across the world.
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Sealy was born in Hackney, London, but signed his first professional contract with Southampton in 1977. At the club, he appeared as a substitute in the 1979 League Cup final. He was the second black player to play for Southampton after Alf Charles in 1937.[1]
He signed with Crystal Palace in 1979. Whilst at Palace he was sent on loan to Port Vale in February 1980, after impressing there he returned in May of that year. He switched to QPR in 1981. Sealy made his QPR debut in the 3–1 win over Derby County in March 1981 and went on to play 63 league games, scoring 18 goals. He was lightning fast, and his best season came in QPR's promotion year of 1982–83 when he was top scorer (quite a feat when the like of Clive Allen and Simon Stainrod were in the team). Once more he came to Vale on loan, in February 1982, once again impressing, but the club could not afford to secure his services permanently and he returned to Rangers the following month.[2]
After a loan spell with Fulham, he moved to the club permanently in 1984. He had gotten into the habit of regularly moving from club to club, and in fact kept this habit up for the rest of his career. He joined Leicester City in 1985, where he stayed for two years. He then left the UK and played for Portuguese sides Sporting Clube de Portugal and Sporting Braga, before returning to England to play for Brentford, Swindon Town and Bristol Rovers. He then moved to Finland with MYPA, returning to Brentford in 1991, before moving to Hong Kong the next year with Michelotti, Eastern AA and Hong Kong FC.
He became Manager of Hong Kong FC in 1995, a position he maintained until 2002, when he was promoted to Operations Manager.
Tony Sealy's son Jack is also a football player. Jack played under Tony at HKFC before moving to Sun Hei in August 2011 in the 2011-12 Hong Kong First Division League season.