Gordon Banks

**Gordon Banks** (30 December 1937 – 12 February 2019) was an English footballer. He has played for England national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time.

Banks played in every game of England's 1966 FIFA World Cup victory.

## Injury

In October 1972 Banks was involved in a car crash in his car near his home in Madeley Heath.  Fragments of glass perforated his right eye and damaged the retina. Surgeons put 100 micro stitches to the eye and a further 200 to his face. This effectively ended his career, though he played on for a while.

## Death

In December 2015, it was announced he was receiving treatment for kidney cancer. Banks died overnight on 12 February 2019 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, aged 81.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|FA Cup|colspan="2"|League Cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Chesterfield|1958–59|Third Division|23|0|3|0|—|—|—|26|0|||||
|rowspan="9"|Leicester City|1959–60|First Division|32|0|4|0|—|—|—|36|0||||
|1960–61|First Division|40|0|10|0|1|0|—|—|51|0|||||
|1961–62|First Division|41|0|2|0|1|0|4|0|—|48|0||||
|1962–63|First Division|38|0|6|0|2|0|—|—|46|0|||||
|1963–64|First Division|36|0|1|0|8|0|—|—|45|0|||||
|1964–65|First Division|38|0|6|0|9|0|—|—|53|0|||||
|1965–66|First Division|32|0|4|0|1|0|—|—|37|0|||||
|1966–67|First Division|36|0|1|0|3|0|—|—|40|0|||||
|rowspan="8"|Stoke City|1966–67|First Division|4|0|0|0|0|0|—|—|4|0|||
|1967–68|First Division|39|0|2|0|4|0|—|—|45|0|||||
|1968–69|First Division|30|0|4|0|0|0|—|—|34|0|||||
|1969–70|First Division|38|0|3|0|1|0|—|—|42|0|||||
|1970–71|First Division|39|0|10|0|1|0|—|5|0|55|0||||
|1971–72|First Division|36|0|8|0|11|0|—|4|0|59|0||||
|1972–73|First Division|8|0|0|0|2|0|1|0|—|11|0||||
|Cleveland Stokers (loan)|1967|United Soccer Association|7|0|—|—|—|—|7|0||||||
|Hellenic (loan)|1971|National Football League|3|0|—|—|—|—|3|0||||||
|rowspan="3"|Fort Lauderdale Strikers|1977|North American Soccer League|26|0|—|—|—|2|0|28|0||||
|1978|North American Soccer League|11|0|—|—|—|—|11|0|||||||
|St Patrick's Athletic (loan)|1977–78|League of Ireland|1|0|0|0|0|0|—|—|1|0||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="10"|England|1963|7|0|
|1964|7|0|||
|1965|7|0|||
|1966|15|0|||
|1967|4|0|||
|1968|6|0|||
|1969|6|0|||
|1970|10|0|||
|1971|7|0|||
|1972|4|0|||

## Honours

**Leicester City**
- Football League Cup: 1963–64
- FA Cup runner-up: 1960–61, 1962–63

**Stoke City**
- Football League Cup: 1971–72

**England**
- FIFA World Cup: 1966
- UEFA European Championship third-place: 1968
- British Home Championship: 1964 (shared), 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970 (shared), 1971, 1972

**Individual**

- FIFA Goalkeeper of the Year: 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971
- FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1966
- Ballon d'Or Nominated: 1966, 1970, 1972
- World XI: 1969, 1971, 1972
- _FUWO European Team of the Season_: 1969, 1970
- _Rothman's Golden Boot Awards_: 1970, 1971, 1972
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire: 1970
- _Daily Express_ Sportsmen of the Year: 1971, 1972
- _Sport Ideal European XI_: 1971, 1972
- FWA Footballer of the Year: 1972
- Football League 100 Legends: 1998
- English Football Hall of Fame: 2002
- NASL All-Stars: 1977
- NASL Goalkeeper of the Year: 1977
- _World Soccer_ Greatest Players of the 20th Century: 32nd
- FIFA 100: 2004
- PFA Team of the Century (1907–1976): 2007
- Freedom of the City of Stoke-on-Trent 16 October 2014.
- Freedom of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme 23 February 2018.

## References

Category:Association football goalkeepers

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Gordon Banks

- **image**: Gordon banks figurita.jpg
- **fullname**: Gordon Banks
- **birth place**: Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
- **death place**: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
- **position**: Goalkeeper
- **youthyears1**: 1953
- **youthclubs1**: Millspaugh
- **youthyears2**: 1953
- **youthclubs2**: Rawmarsh Welfare
- **youthyears3**: 1953
- **youthclubs3**: Millspaugh
- **youthyears4**: 1953–1958
- **youthclubs4**: Chesterfield F.C., Chesterfield
- **years1**: 1957–1959
- **caps1**: 23
- **goals1**: 0
- **clubs1**: Chesterfield F.C., Chesterfield
- **years2**: 1959–1966
- **caps2**: 293
- **goals2**: 0
- **clubs2**: Leicester City F.C., Leicester City
- **years3**: 1966–1972
- **caps3**: 194
- **goals3**: 0
- **clubs3**: Stoke City F.C., Stoke City
- **years4**: 1967
- **caps4**: 7
- **goals4**: 0
- **clubs4**: → Cleveland Stokers (loan)
- **years5**: 1971
- **caps5**: 3
- **goals5**: 0
- **clubs5**: → Hellenic (loan)
- **years6**: 1977–1978
- **caps6**: 37
- **goals6**: 0
- **clubs6**: Fort Lauderdale Strikers
- **years7**: 1977
- **caps7**: 1
- **goals7**: 0
- **clubs7**: → St Patrick's Athletic F.C., St Patrick's Athletic (loan)
- **nationalyears1**: 1961
- **nationalteam1**: England under-23
- **nationalcaps1**: 2
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 1963–1972
- **nationalteam2**: England national football team, England
- **nationalcaps2**: 73
- **nationalgoals2**: 0
- **manageryears1**: 1979–1980
- **managerclubs1**: Telford United F.C., Telford United