Viv Busby

Viv Busby

Chris Brass hugs Busby after a game in 2004
Personal information
Full name Vivian Dennis Busby[1]
Date of birth (1949-06-19) 19 June 1949[1]
Place of birth Slough, England
Playing position Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1966–1970 Wycombe Wanderers 50 (19)
1970–1973 Luton Town 77 (16)
1971–1972 → Newcastle United (loan) 4 (2)
1973–1976 Fulham 118 (29)
1976–1977 Norwich City 22 (11)
1977–1980 Stoke City 50 (10)
1980 → Sheffield United (loan) 3 (1)
1980–1981 Tulsa Roughnecks 19 (1)
1981–1982 Blackburn Rovers 8 (1)
1982–1983 York City 19 (4)
Total 370 (94)
Teams managed
1993 Hartlepool United
2004–2005 York City (caretaker)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Vivian Dennis "Viv" Busby (born 19 June 1949) is an English former professional footballer and manager. He played for Wycombe Wanderers, Luton Town, Newcastle United, Fulham F.C. Norwich City, Stoke City, Sheffield United, Tulsa Roughnecks (United States), Blackburn Rovers and York City.[1]

Playing career

Born in Slough, Berkshire,[1] Busby started his playing career at Wycombe Wanderers in 1966, but was unable to hold down a regular place in their team, despite his emerging talent. He moved to Luton Town in January 1970.[2] At Kenilworth Road Busby scored four goals in his first nine matches helping the club gain promotion to the Second Division in 1969–70. He scored eight goals in 1970–71 but struggled to fin form in 1971–72 and spent time out on loan at Newcastle United. He was sold to Fulham in August 1973 where he had the most prolific spell of his career. He scored 12 goals in 1973–74 and 18 in 1974–75 of which six were in the FA Cup helping Fulham reach the 1975 FA Cup Final, losing 2–0 against West Ham United. After scoring 38 goals in 155 matches for the Cottagers he moved to First Division Norwich City where he made a fine start scoring 11 goals in his first 18 matches for the Canaries.

However he fell out of favour in 1977–78 and moved on to Stoke City.[1] He was never a prolific goalscorer at the Victoria Ground but made up for it with his effort in 1978–79 helping Stoke gain promotion to the First Division.[1] He scored 12 goals for Stoke in 60 matches and spent a short time out on loan at Sheffield United before moving to the United States to play for Tulsa Roughnecks.[1] He stayed in Tulsa, Oklahoma for the 1980 North American Soccer League season before returning to England with Blackburn Rovers and then ended his playing career with York City.[1]

Managerial and coaching career

Busby worked as a coach at York City between 1982 and 1987.[3] Busby became manager of Hartlepool United on 15 February 1993 and left the position on 24 November 1993.[4] Busby had been youth-team coach at Swindon Town, where he suffered a six-month battle against leukaemia.[5] He was named as assistant manager at York City in September 2004.[6] Busby was placed as caretaker manager at York City in November 2004 following the sacking of Chris Brass.[7] He left his position as caretaker manager at York by mutual consent on 10 February 2005, when he was replaced by Billy McEwan.[8] Busby worked as Youth Academy Manager at Gretna,[9] but left after a change to the backroom staff.[10] He was appointed as assistant manager at Workington in September 2007.[10] He left in October 2011 to emigrate to Spain.[11]

Personal life

He is the older brother of former Queens Park Rangers midfielder Martyn Busby.[12]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other[A] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Wycombe Wanderers 1966–67 Isthmian League 125000000125
1967–68 Isthmian League 168000000168
1968–69 Isthmian League 154000000154
1969–70 Isthmian League 7200000072
Total 50190000005019
Luton Town 1969–70 Third Division 9400000094
1970–71 Second Division 278001000288
1971–72 Second Division 202001010222
1972–73 Second Division 212103020272
Total 77161050308616
Newcastle United (loan) 1971–72 First Division 4210000052
Fulham 1973–74 Second Division 38122020004212
1974–75 Second Division 381112631005418
1975–76 Second Division 376113091508
1976–77 Second Division 50002030100
Total 1182915710112115538
Norwich City 1976–77 First Division 17111000001811
1977–78 First Division 5000003080
Total 22111000302611
Stoke City 1977–78 Second Division 223210000244
1978–79 Second Division 186103100227
1979–80 First Division 101004000141
Total 50103171006012
Sheffield United (loan) 1979–80 Third Division 3100000031
Tulsa Roughnecks 1980 North American Soccer League 191–––191
Blackburn Rovers 1980–81 Second Division 8100000081
York City 1982–83 Fourth Division 164000000164
1983–84 Fourth Division 3020000050
Total 194200000214
Career Total 37094218222181431105
A. ^ The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the Anglo-Italian Cup, Anglo-Scottish Cup, Watney Cup.

Managerial statistics

Managerial record by team and tenure
Team From To Record Ref
PWDLWin %
Hartlepool United 15 February 1993 24 November 1993 40 9 9 22 22.5 [13]
York City (caretaker) 8 November 2004 10 February 2005 14 4 2 8 28.6 [8][13]
Total 54 13 11 30 24.1 —

Honours

Luton Town

Fulham

Stoke City

York City

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Matthews, Tony (1994). The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City. Lion Press. ISBN 0-9524151-0-0.
  2. ↑ "Viv Busby". Chairboys. Retrieved 22 July 2007.
  3. ↑ "Busby returns to Mintermen". Non-League Daily. 17 September 2004. Retrieved 13 September 2007.
  4. ↑ "Viv Busby". Pools Stats. Retrieved 22 July 2007.
  5. ↑ "Busby gets Swindon boost". BBC Sport. 1 February 2001. Retrieved 22 July 2007.
  6. ↑ "Busby handed York post". BBC Sport. 17 September 2004. Retrieved 22 May 2007.
  7. ↑ "Debate: Brass sacked". BBC North Yorkshire. 10 November 2004. Retrieved 22 May 2007.
  8. 1 2 "All change at KitKat Crescent". Evening Press. York. 10 February 2005. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  9. ↑ "Youth Team". Gretna F.C. Archived from the original on 19 May 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2007.
  10. 1 2 "Viv Busby teams up with Dazza at Reds". News & Star. 13 September 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2007.
  11. ↑ "'HAVING NO FOOTBALL IN MY LIFE WILL BE HARD', SAYS EX-WORKINGTON NO2 VIV BUSBY". News & Star. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  12. ↑ Jarred, Martin; Windross, Dave (1997). "Football League Players". Citizens and Minstermen, A Who's Who of York City FC 1922–1997. Citizen Publications. p. 19. ISBN 0-9531005-0-2.
  13. 1 2 "Managers: Viv Busby". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
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