John Terry

**John George Terry** (born 7 December 1980) is an English former  football player and manager. Terry played as a defender. He was the captain for Chelsea in the English Premier League and Aston Villa in the EFL Championship. He was also a member of the England national team. He was a manager of Aston Villa from 2018 until 2021.

Terry is known as one of the best defenders in the world. He was voted best defender in the UEFA Champions League in 2005. He was also the only English player to be named in the group of best players for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He wears the number 26 shirt for Chelsea and the number 6 shirt for England. Terry missed the penalty which could have won the Champions League 2008. He slipped when he was taking the penalty, giving Manchester United the title.

## Career

Terry was a Chelsea Youth player. Before he became a defender he was a midfielder in 1992. To help Terry get some first team experience he was loaned out to Nottingham Forest in 2000 until 2002, when he came back to Chelsea.

## Personal life

Terry is married to his childhood sweetheart Toni Poole. She who supported him financially when he was a Chelsea F.C trainee.  They married on 15 June 2007, in Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. They have twins, Georgie and Summer, born in 2006.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|FA Cup|colspan="2"|League Cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="20"|Chelsea|1998–99|Premier League|2|0|3|0|1|0|1|0|—|7|0||
|1999–2000|Premier League|4|0|4|1|1|0|0|0|—|9|1||||
|2000–01|Premier League|22|1|3|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|26|1|||
|2001–02|Premier League|33|1|5|2|5|0|4|1|—|47|4||||
|2002–03|Premier League|20|3|5|2|3|0|1|1|—|29|6||||
|2003–04|Premier League|33|2|3|1|2|0|13|0|—|51|3||||
|2004–05|Premier League|36|3|1|1|5|0|11|4|—|53|8||||
|2005–06|Premier League|36|4|4|2|1|1|8|0|1|0|50|7|||
|2006–07|Premier League|28|1|4|0|2|0|10|0|1|0|45|1|||
|2007–08|Premier League|23|1|2|0|2|0|10|0|0|0|37|1|||
|2008–09|Premier League|35|1|4|0|1|0|11|2|—|51|3||||
|2009–10|Premier League|37|2|5|1|1|0|8|0|1|0|52|3|||
|2010–11|Premier League|33|3|3|0|1|0|8|1|1|0|46|4|||
|2011–12|Premier League|31|6|4|0|1|0|8|1|—|44|7||||
|2012–13|Premier League|14|4|3|1|1|0|8|1|1|0|27|6|||
|2013–14|Premier League|34|2|0|0|1|0|12|0|—|47|2||||
|2014–15|Premier League|38|5|0|0|4|1|7|2|—|49|8||||
|2015–16|Premier League|24|1|2|0|2|0|4|0|1|0|33|1|||
|2016–17|Premier League|9|1|3|0|2|0|—|—|14|1|||||
|Nottingham Forest (loan)|1999–2000|First Division|6|0|—|—|—|—|6|0||||||
|Aston Villa|2017–18|Championship|32|1|1|0|0|0|—|3|0|36|1|||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="10"|England|2003|6|0|
|2004|9|0|||
|2005|6|0|||
|2006|14|2|||
|2007|7|1|||
|2008|6|2|||
|2009|10|1|||
|2010|7|0|||
|2011|7|0|||
|2012|6|0|||

- _England score listed first, score column indicates score after each Terry goal_

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Cap|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|scope="col" class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|30 May 2006|Old Trafford, Manchester, England|23||2–0|3–1|Friendly|||||||||||
|2|16 August 2006|Old Trafford, Manchester, England|30||1–0|4–0|Friendly|||||||||||
|3|1 June 2007|Wembley Stadium, London, England|38||1–0|1–1|Friendly|||||||||||
|4|28 May 2008|Wembley Stadium, London, England|44||1–0|2–0|Friendly|||||||||||
|5|19 November 2008|Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany|48||2–1|2–1|Friendly|||||||||||
|6|1 April 2009|Wembley Stadium, London, England|51||2–1|2–1|2010 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||||||||

## Honours

**Chelsea**
- Premier League: 2004–05, 2005–06, 2009–10, 2014–15, 2016–17
- FA Cup: 1999–2000, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12; runner-up: 2001–02, 2016–17
- Football League Cup: 2004–05, 2006–07, 2014–15; runner-up: 2007–08
- FA Community Shield: 2005, 2009
- UEFA Champions League: 2011–12; runner-up: 2007–08
- UEFA Europa League: 2012–13

**Individual**
- Chelsea Player of the Year: 2000–01, 2005–06
- Premier League Player of the Month: January 2005
- Alan Hardaker Trophy: 2005, 2015
- PFA Players' Player of the Year: 2004–05
- PFA Team of the Year: 2003–04 Premier League, 2004–05 Premier League, 2005–06 Premier League, 2014–15 Premier League
- FIFA FIFPro World XI: 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09
- ESM Team of the Year: 2004–05, 2008–09, 2009–10
- UEFA Club Defender of the Year: 2005, 2008, 2009
- UEFA Team of the Year: 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
- FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 2006
- PFA Team of the Century (1997–2007): 2007

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: John Terry
- **image**: John Terry in 2021 FIFA Club World Cup Final.jpg
- **caption**: Terry in 2022
- **full name**: John George Terry
- **birth place**: Barking, London, Barking, England
- **position**: Centre-back
- **youthyears1**: 1991–1995
- **youthclubs1**: West Ham United F.C., West Ham United
- **youthyears2**: 1995–1998
- **youthclubs2**: Chelsea F.C., Chelsea
- **years1**: 1998–2017
- **clubs1**: Chelsea F.C., Chelsea
- **caps1**: 492
- **goals1**: 41
- **years2**: 2000
- **clubs2**: → Nottingham Forest F.C., Nottingham Forest (loan)
- **caps2**: 6
- **goals2**: 0
- **years3**: 2017–2018
- **clubs3**: Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa
- **caps3**: 32
- **goals3**: 1
- **totalcaps**: 530
- **totalgoals**: 42
- **nationalyears1**: 2000–2002
- **nationalteam1**: England national under-21 football team, England U21
- **nationalcaps1**: 9
- **nationalgoals1**: 1
- **nationalyears2**: 2003–2012
- **nationalteam2**: England national football team, England
- **nationalcaps2**: 78
- **nationalgoals2**: 6
- **manageryears1**: 2018–2021
- **managerclubs1**: Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa (assistant)
- **manageryears2**: 2023
- **managerclubs2**: Leicester City F.C., Leicester City (assistant)