Phil Chapple

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Phil Chapple
Personal information
Full name	Phillip Chapple
Date of birth	November 26, 1966 (1966-11-26) (age 41)
Place of birth	Norwich, England
Height	6 ft 2 in
Playing position	Defender
Youth clubs
1985-1988	Norwich City
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1988-1993 1993-1998 1998-2001	Cambridge United Charlton Athletic Peterborough United	187 (19) 141 (15) 017 0(1)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Phil Chapple (born 26th November 1966) was an English professional footballer.

A centre back who started his career with Norwich City, he failed to make the breakthrough and joined Cambridge United on a free transfer in March 1988. During his time at The Abbey Stadium, Chapple went onto feature in the club's most successful seasons, culminating in a rise from Division 4 to Division 2 in successive seasons. In total Chapple made 187 league appearances for the club, scoring an impressive 19 goals.

Charlton Athletic paid £100,000 for his services in 1993 and he went onto have a 5 year playing career at The Valley, scoring 15 goals in 141 games before joining Peterborough United in 1998. Chapple endured an injury ravaged time at London Road and only managed 17 games and one goal before retiring from playing.

Chapple stayed at Peterborough in a number of roles including Youth Team Coach, Scout and Head Coach before leaving in September 2003.

He had spells as academy coach at West Ham United and as a coach at Newmarket Town and in 2007 returned to Charlton Athletic as Chief Scout.[1]

[edit] External links

• Phil Chapple career stats at Soccerbase