George Ainsley

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Position	Centre forward
Born	15 Apr 1915, South Shields (England)
Height	182 cm
Weight	82 kg
International Caps	none

Club	From	To	Apps	Goals	Sold for
Blackpool
Liverpool
Southport
Sunderland	01 Apr 1932	01 Aug 1936	4	0	£2500
Bolton Wanderers	01 Aug 1936	16 Dec 1936	7	0	£0
Leeds United	16 Dec 1936	01 Nov 1947	97	33	£0
Bradford Park Avenue	01 Nov 1947		44	29

Leeds Career	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Europe		Other
Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1936 - 1937	13	5	1		0		0		0
1937 - 1938	26	6	2		0		0		0
1938 - 1939	20	6	0		0		0		0
1939 - 1939	2		0		0		0		0
1939 - 1940	0		0		0		0		1
1940 - 1941	3	1	0		0		0		0
1941 - 1942	9	2	0		0		0		0
1942 - 1942	6		0		0		0		0
1942 - 1943	6	2	0		0		0		0
1943 - 1943	1		0		0		0		0
1944 - 1944	10	10	0		0		0		0
1945 - 1946	28	20	2	2	0		0		0
1946 - 1947	28	11	1	1	0		0		0
1947 - 1948	2	2	0		0		0		0
Total	91	30	6	3	0		0		0
Total (inc war years)	154	65	6	3	0		0		1

Jabba's Comments

A decent centre-forward from the North-East who was coming into his own at Leeds and went on the FA tour of South Africa in 1939. The war intervened, and he guested for a variety of clubs (Blackpool, Liverpool and Southport) before returning to Leeds at the end of hostilities. After moving to Bradford, he got into coaching and worked his way around the world - coaching the Libyan Olympic team among others. He retired and returned once again to Leeds, where he died in April 1985.

Reinier "Dutch" kemeling says: George Ainsley was the greatest coach I've ever had. He coached the US CISM team during 1956 and 1957. We played against Holland, Turkey, Italie and a variety of other matches. He tryly was a great soccer teacher and we all appreciated him very much. His name is mentioned on my web: www.dutchtutchsoccer.com

Johnnie Dale Ainsley says: Hello from a fellow Ainsley in Florida. I arrived at your Web page through the Google search engine. Have a bloody nice day, mate!

Willy W.Nowotny says: George Ainsley was my coach while I was playing with the US Armed Forces Soccer Team in 1955. We all were stadioned in Wiesbaden, Germany.He was a good coach and I enjoyed playing for him while I was on the Team.I do have a good picture of him.

Stan "Tex" DeRidder says: I was a 1956 U.S. Armed Forces Olympic soccer hopeful before a tragic knee injury vs. Army at Westpoint ended my dreams just a few weeks before going to Germany. As a native Belguim, I was stationed at the Sampson Airforce Base in New York and had the honor of assisting coach Ainsley with the other players after my accident. Many years have gone by, but the great memories of those days keep me young. George was a fine person and respected teacher of the game. I long to touch base with any of you who may remember me. Sincerely, Tex Please email me today at: pderidde_at_rochester.rr.com

Morten Blindheim says: Is this the same George Ainsley who was coaching SK Brann of Bergen, Norway in 1955? Does anyone know. We achieved a midtable position in the Premier Group A division, and lost to Asker at home that year in the 4th round in the cup.

Rginald Guillemard says: We had a coach called George Ainsley in Dunkerque (France) at the start of the season 1971/72 in the national division 2. He left in mid-October after problems of booze, it was said. Was it the same George Ainsley?

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