Terry Connor
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 Connor at Molineux in 2011 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Terence Fitzroy Connor[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 9 November 1962[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Leeds,[2] England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[3] | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Leeds City | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1979–1983 | Leeds United | 96 | (19) |
| 1983–1987 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 156 | (51) |
| 1987–1990 | Portsmouth | 48 | (14) |
| 1990–1991 | Swansea City | 39 | (6) |
| 1991–1993 | Bristol City | 16 | (1) |
| 1992 | → Swansea City (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 1993–1994 | Yeovil Town[4] | 14 | (0) |
| Total | 372 | (91) | |
| International career | |||
| 1980–1981 | England Youth | 9 | (4) |
| 1986 | England U21 | 1 | (1) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2012 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | ||
| 2023–2024 | Grenada | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Terence Fitzroy Connor (born 9 November 1962) is an English football coach and former professional footballer.
He was born in Leeds and was a pupil at Foxwood School, Seacroft, Leeds.[5] As a player, Connor scored 91 goals from 358 games in the Football League as a striker playing for Leeds United, Brighton & Hove Albion, Portsmouth, Swansea City and Bristol City.[6] He was capped once for the England under-21 team.
He moved into coaching following his playing retirement, briefly working as a coach at both Bristol Rovers and Bristol City before joining Wolves in 1999. After holding a variety of positions he served as Wolves' manager for thirteen games during their Premier League relegation in 2012.
Connor scored on his senior debut for Leeds United aged 17, in a 1–0 win over West Bromwich Albion on 17 November 1979. He made 108 appearances in total for Leeds over four seasons, scoring 22 goals. He joined Brighton & Hove Albion in exchange for Andy Ritchie, in March 1983. However, he was unable to appear in their FA Cup Final appearance just months later as he was already cup-tied. The club ended the season relegated. The majority of Connor's games for Brighton came in the Second Division. His form here won him an England under-21 cap in November 1986, when he played and scored against Yugoslavia under-21.[7] He scored 51 goals in 156 appearances before leaving Brighton as they dropped into the third tier in 1987. One of his most memorable goals for Brighton came when they knocked Liverpool out of the 1983-84 FA Cup, a season in which Liverpool won the Football League Cup, European Cup and were crowned English champions.[8] He moved along the South Coast to sign for Portsmouth in a £200,000 deal.
Portsmouth were newly promoted to the First Division at the time of Connor's arrival, but despite his goals they were relegated after just one season. He remained at Fratton Park for three seasons before joining Swansea City for £150,000 in August 1990. After a solitary full season with the Swans in the third tier, he moved to Bristol City in September 1991. He failed to make much impact at Bristol City, playing just 16 times and scoring once; he was also briefly loaned back to Swansea in autumn 1992. He dropped into non-League football in summer 1993 when he signed for Conference club Yeovil Town.
