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Brough Fletcher (9 March 1893 – 12 May 1972) was a footballer and football manager.[1]

Brough Fletcher

Personal information
Full name	Brough Fletcher[1]
Date of birth	(1893-03-09)9 March 1893
Place of birth	Mealsgate, England
Date of death	12 May 1972(1972-05-12) (aged 79)[2]
Place of death	Bristol, England
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Position(s)	Inside right, right half
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1912–1913	Chilton Colliery Recreation Athletic
1913–1914	Shildon Athletic
1913–1926	Barnsley	249	(51)
1917	→ Partick Thistle (guest)	10	(0)
1926	Sheffield Wednesday	2	(0)
1926–1929	Barnsley	62	(21)
Teams managed
1930–1937	Barnsley
1938–1950	Bristol Rovers
1952–1953	Walsall
	Eastville
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

He played for Sheffield Wednesday, Partick Thistle and Barnsley and managed Barnsley, Bristol Rovers and Walsall.[3][4]

He scored the only goal of the game in Barnsley's shock FA Cup first-round victory in 1920 at champions elect West Bromwich Albion.[5]

Personal life

Fletcher served as a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery during the First World War.[6]

Honours

As a manager

Barnsley

• Football League Third Division North: 1933–34[5]

References

• Byrne, Stephen; Jay, Mike (2003). Bristol Rovers Football Club – The Definitive History 1883–2003. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-2717-2.
• "Brough Fletcher". The Sheffield Wednesday Archive. Retrieved 23 October 2007.

External links

• Brough Fletcher management career statistics at Soccerbase

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