Steve Claridge

Quick Facts

Full Name	Steve Claridge
Date Of Birth	Apr 10, 1966(1966-04-10)
Age	58
Birthplace	Portsmouth
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aries

Steve Claridge Biography

Steve Claridge is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on April 10, 1966 in Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom. Stephen Edward Claridge (born 10 April 1966) is an English football pundit as well as a former coach. He was a pundit on BBC Sport football shows including Football Focus and The Football League Show up to 2015 when he took on the roles of director and manager at the Salisbury, a newly-formed club. Salisbury.

In 1998, Claridge was signed by his home team Portsmouth on loan. Then following a brief stint with Wolverhampton Wanderers, signed for Portsmouth on the permanent basis. In 2000, he was manager of the players, but his time in charge lasted just 25 games before being dismissed. After a brief loan at Millwall before moving to the London club via a free transfer 2001. He played for two seasons at Millwall and then returned in Weymouth as the club’s new player manager. Weymouth was a bit short of advancement into the Football Conference. After Ian Ridley’s resignation from the position of Chairman, Claridge also left to play league football again.

At the start of the 2006–07 season Claridge didn’t have a club. It was reported that Claridge had offered to play without payment in order to achieve the landmark of 1,000 games. Eventually in December 2006 he re-signed on a month-long contract with Bournemouth and his 1,000th first-team match was a 4–0 defeat to Port Vale on 9 December, at age 40.

On 30 January 2007 Claridge joined Harrow Borough and scored on his debut in a 4–4 draw against Margate.

In the month of January 1994 Claridge made the move into Birmingham City for PS350,000. In 1994-95, he was one of the few players since Trevor Francis to score 20 goals in one season for Birmingham which brought him the player of the year award. Claridge was signed by Leicester City for PS1.2 million in March 1996. It was in Leicester where Claridge was promoted to the Premiership and scored the winning goal in the play-off final, which secured Leicester promotion as well as that 1997 League Cup final replay. In 1997, his autobiography, Tales From The Boot Camps, written together with Ian Ridley, was first published.

Steve Claridge Net Worth

Steve Claridge is one of the richest Association Football Player from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Steve Claridge 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Claridge’s professional career was renowned for its long-lasting and diverse. Born in Portsmouth the city of his birth, he’s played several seasons playing for clubs that hail from Hampshire and Dorset beginning his professional career with league-less Fareham Town in 1983. After failing to sign an ongoing contract at the his local team, A.F.C. Bournemouth, Claridge spent three years at Weymouth during his longest-running single stint for any other club. From 1988 until 1996 Claridge was a player for a variety of Football League teams, before changing towards Leicester City with whom he participated for the Premier League and won the 1997 Football League Cup. After 1998, Claridge relocated to Portsmouth and was also the player manager from 2000 until 2001. Following a brief stint with Millwall and then he moved into the Southern Premier League to work as the player manager for Weymouth. When the contract ended in 2004, Claridge played for ten different clubs across a range of leagues. He never spent more than a single season with a single team. Claridge has played at every level of English football and been a part of over 1000 professional or semi-professional football games.

In October 1988, Claridge was transferred from Crystal Palace for a brief time before deciding to join the Division Four team Aldershot for the season 1988-89. Claridge stayed at the club before joining Cambridge United for PS75,000. The club moved Cambridge into the Second Division (which later became the First Division) and stayed with the club for the bulk of the following four years. His tense relationship to manager John Beck, which was caused by Claridge’s gambling addiction ultimately led to his being transferred to Luton Town for only PS120,000 in March 1992. Due to Luton having financial difficulties, the club was able to sell him back to Cambridge for PS190,000 only five months later (Beck was out of the club prior to this).

In his later playing career, chronologically, Claridge played for Brighton and Hove Albion, Brentford, Wycombe Wanderers, Gillingham, Bradford City and Walsall. In the summer of 2005 he was appointed as manager of Millwall, but following board-room changes he was relieved of his duties after just 36 days, before his team had played any competitive matches. His replacement was Colin Lee. The decision to dismiss Claridge was taken by new chairman Theo Paphitis, who stated to the BBC that “we had a strong chance of being relegated under Steve”. Millwall were indeed relegated from the Championship that season.

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Claridge then came out of retirement once more in October 2011 when he signed for Gosport Borough of the Southern League Division One South & West as a player-coach. On 22 October 2011, Claridge scored on his début for Gosport during their FA Trophy game against Southern League side Sholing; his first league goal came a week later on 29 October 2011 in a 2–1 defeat of Mangotsfield United at Privett Park

Facts & Trivia

Steve Ranked on the list of most popular Association Football Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Steve Claridge celebrates birthday on April 10 of every year.

On 1 July 2017, the 51-year-old Claridge played for Salisbury in a friendly against Portsmouth due to a lack of players. Salisbury lost the match 3–0. On 15 August, he played in a Southern League Division One South & West match against Paulton Rovers, playing himself as a 78th-minute substitute in a 2–2 draw; he also started Salisbury’s next match, a 3–2 FA Cup victory over Fareham Town, substituting himself off after 71 minutes after sustaining an injury. In an interview with BBC Sport in 2018, Claridge revealed that he had retired from playing as a result of this injury.

Top Facts about Steve Claridge

1. Steve Claridge is a retired English footballer and current manager.
2. He played for 20 different clubs during his career.
3. Claridge scored the winning goal in the 1996 Football League Cup Final.
4. He made over 1,000 professional appearances in total.
5. Claridge has managed several lower league teams since retiring as a player.
6. He once ran the London Marathon in under three hours.
7. Claridge is known for his work as a pundit on BBC Radio 5 Live.
8. He wrote an autobiography titled “Tales from the Boot Camps”.
9. Claridge was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2018 but has since recovered.
10. He is also involved in charity work, including supporting homeless people and mental health initiatives.

What does Steve Claridge do now?

After formally retiring from football in 2007, Claridge moved into media work for the BBC. His experience of the Football League has been used to position him as an expert at that level, though he works across a variety of different football programmes on the BBC.

Where is Steve Claridge?

Salisbury F.C.

How many clubs did Steve Claridge play for?

In his successful career, Steve played over 800 games for 15 league clubs (including the likes of Bournemouth, Crystal Palace, Cambridge United, Luton Town, Birmingham City, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Brentford, Wycombe Wanderers and Harrow Borough) and several non-league clubs but was most loved at Leicester when in …

Who is Salisbury FC manager?

Steve Claridge – Manager – Salisbury FC.

Who owns Salisbury FC?

Chairman Ian Hammond
Company Secretary| Hilary Billimore
Team Manager| Steve Claridge
Assistant Manager| Callum Hart
Goalkeeping Coach| Steve Hollick