John Wark

**John Wark** (born 4 August 1957) is a Scottish former footballer who spent most of his playing time with Ipswich Town.

## Honours

In 2006 Wark gained the final place in the poll 100 Players Who Shook the Kop, conducted by the liverpoolfc.tv website. The list was compiled as a result of a fan survey: "Over 110,000 supporters all nominated their own personal Top 10 players in order of impact made".
In 2007, the Professional Footballers' Association polled fans of all Football League clubs, as to "their No 1 player" as part of the "centenary celebrations of the players' union"; Wark was the choice of Ipswich fans. In the same year, Wark was one of four Ipswich Town players to be inducted into the club's Hall of Fame.

**Ipswich Town**
- FA Cup: 1977–78
- UEFA Cup: 1980–81
- Football League Second Division: 1991–92

**Liverpool**
- Football League First Division: 1983–84, 1985–86
- FA Charity Shield: 1986 (shared)

**Individual**
- PFA Players' Player of the Year: 1980–81
- UEFA Cup Top Scorer: 1980–81
- Bravo Award: 1981
- PFA Team of the Year: 1980–81 Football League First Division
- Ipswich Town F.C. Player of the Year: 1988–89, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1993–94
- Ipswich Town Hall of Fame: Inducted 2007

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="4"|Appearances|rowspan="2"|Goals|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="11"|Ipswich Town|1974–75|3|2|0|0|0|
|1975–76|3|1|0|0|0|||
|1976–77|33|3|2|0|10|||
|1977–78|18|7|0|1|7|||
|1978–79|42|5|1|7|9|||
|1979–80|41|4|2|3|15|||
|1980–81|40|7|5|12|36|||
|1981–82|42|3|8|2|23|||
|1982–83|42|3|2|2|23|||
|1983–84|32|2|4|0|11|||
|rowspan="6"|Liverpool|1983–84|9|0|0|0|2|
|1984–85|40|7|3|12|27|||
|1985–86|9|4|3|2|6|||
|1986–87|11|2|3|1|7|||
|1987–88|1|0|1|0|0|||
|rowspan="4"|Ipswich Town|1987–88|7|0|0|2|2|
|1988–89|41|1|3|4|13|||
|1989–90|41|2|1|3|10|||
||Middlesbrough|1990–91|32|2|5|0|2|
|rowspan="7"|Ipswich Town|1991–92|37|5|1|3|3|
|1992–93|37|4|7|0|7|||
|1993–94|38|5|3|0|4|||
|1994–95|26|2|0|0|4|||
|1995–96|14|2|1|2|2|||
|1996–97|2|0|1|0|0|||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="6"|Scotland|1979|9|1|
|1980|0|0|||
|1981|3|1|||
|1982|8|4|||
|1983|6|1|||
|1984|3|0|||

- _Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Wark goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|26 May 1979|Wembley Stadium, London, England||1–0|1–3|1978–79 British Home Championship||||||||
|2|25 March 1981|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland||1–1|1–1|1982 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|3|28 April 1982|Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland||1–0|1–1|1981–82 British Home Championship||||||||
|4|15 June 1982|Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga, Spain||2–0|5–2|1982 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|5|3–0|||||||||||||
|6|13 October 1982|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland||1–0|2–0|UEFA Euro 1984 qualification||||||||
|7|30 March 1983|Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland||1–2|2–2|UEFA Euro 1984 qualification||||||||

## References

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## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: John Wark
- **image**: John Wark.jpg
- **caption**: Wark in 2006
- **fullname**: John Wark
- **birth place**: Glasgow, Scotland
- **position**: Midfielder
- **years1**: 1975–1984
- **years2**: 1984–1988
- **years3**: 1988–1990
- **years4**: 1990–1991
- **years5**: 1991–1997
- **clubs1**: Ipswich Town F.C., Ipswich Town
- **clubs2**: Liverpool F.C., Liverpool
- **clubs3**: Ipswich Town F.C., Ipswich Town
- **clubs4**: Middlesbrough F.C., Middlesbrough
- **clubs5**: Ipswich Town F.C., Ipswich Town
- **caps1**: 266
- **caps2**: 70
- **caps3**: 89
- **caps4**: 32
- **caps5**: 154
- **goals1**: 94
- **goals2**: 28
- **goals3**: 23
- **goals4**: 2
- **goals5**: 18
- **totalcaps**: 611
- **totalgoals**: 165
- **nationalyears1**: 1977–1980
- **nationalteam1**: Scotland national under-21 football team, Scotland U21
- **nationalcaps1**: 9
- **nationalgoals1**: 2
- **nationalyears2**: 1979–1984
- **nationalteam2**: Scotland national football team, Scotland
- **nationalcaps2**: 29
- **nationalgoals2**: 7