Steve Sumner

Steven Paul Sumner (2 April 1955 – 8 February 2017) was an England-born New Zealand football player. He was born in Blackpool, Lancashire. Sumner was captain of the New Zealand national team during the country's first successful campaign to qualify for the World Cup in 1982.

In 1991 he was inducted into the New Zealand Soccer Media Association Hall of Fame and was then awarded FIFA's top award, the FIFA Order of Merit, before the opening of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, along with Johan Cruyff and former South African president Thabo Mbeki.

Sumner died on 8 February 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand from prostate cancer, aged 61.

Honours
Individual
Player of the Year: 1983
Golden Boot: 1983
FIFA Centennial Award in 2004
FIFA Order of Merit: 2010
Friends of Football Medal of Excellence 2015 
Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (for services to football), 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours
IFFHS Oceania Men's Team of All Time: 2021

Club
Christchurch United
National League: 1973, 1975, 1978, 1988
Chatham Cup: 1974, 1975, 1976, 1989

Manurewa
National League: 1983
Chatham Cup: 1984

Gisborne City
Chatham Cup: 1987

References

Other websites
New Zealand 1982 World Cup squad
Planet World Cup interview

Category:1955 births
Category:2017 deaths
Category:New Zealand footballers
Category:English footballers
Category:Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Category:People from Blackpool
Category:Sportspeople from Lancashire
Category:Deaths from prostate cancer
Category:1982 FIFA World Cup players