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{{short description|English footballer and manager}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name      = Allenby Chilton
| image =
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1918|9|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[South Hylton]], England 
| death_date = {{death date and age|1996|6|15|1918|9|16|df=y}} 
| position = [[Centre-half]]
| youthyears1 = |youthclubs1 = [[Hylton Colliery Welfare F.C.|Hylton Colliery]]
| youthyears2 = |youthclubs2 = [[Seaham Colliery Welfare F.C.|Seaham Colliery]]
| years1 = 1938      |clubs1 = [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]]                 |caps1 = 0   |goals1 = 0
| years2 = 1938–1955 |clubs2 = [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] |caps2 = 352 |goals2 = 3
| years3 = 1955–1956 |clubs3 = [[Grimsby Town F.C.|Grimsby Town]]           |caps3 = 63  |goals3 = 0
| totalcaps = 415 | totalgoals = 3
| nationalyears1 = 1950–1951 |nationalteam1 = [[England national football team|England]] |nationalcaps1 = 2 |nationalgoals1 = 0
| manageryears1 = 1955–1959 |managerclubs1 = [[Grimsby Town F.C.|Grimsby Town]]
| manageryears2 = 1960–1961 |managerclubs2 = [[Wigan Athletic F.C.|Wigan Athletic]]
| manageryears3 = 1962–1963 |managerclubs3 = [[Hartlepool United F.C.|Hartlepool United]]
}}
'''Allenby C. Chilton'''<ref name = "Ponting">{{cite book |last=Ponting |first=Ivan |title=Manchester United: Player by Player |edition=8th |year=2008 |publisher=Know The Score Books |location=[[Studley, Warwickshire|Studley]] |isbn=978-1-84818-300-1 |page=44 }}</ref> (16 September 1918 – 15 June 1996)<ref>{{cite web |title=England players: Allenby Chilton  |url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamPlyrsBios/PlayersC/BioChiltonA.html |website=englandfootballonline |access-date=10 July 2018}}</ref> was an English [[association football|footballer]].

==Playing career==
Chilton started his career with [[Seaham Colliery F.C.|Seaham Colliery]] before joining [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] as an amateur in the summer of 1938, but he never played a senior game for the [[Anfield]] club.

Chilton transferred to [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] soon after in November 1938 and made his first team debut against [[Charlton Athletic F.C.|Charlton Athletic]] in September 1939. Chilton's early career was cut short by the Second World War although he made guest appearances for [[Airdrieonians F.C. (1878)|Airdrieonians]], [[Cardiff City F.C.|Cardiff City]], [[Hartlepool United F.C.|Hartlepools United]], [[Middlesbrough F.C.|Middlesbrough]], [[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]] and [[Charlton Athletic F.C.|Charlton Athletic]] who he helped to win the [[1944 Football League War Cup South Final|War Cup South]] Final in 1944. He served in the Durham Light Infantry and saw active service in the [[Normandy Landings]] also in 1944.

Chilton established himself as a centre half in [[Matt Busby]]'s first post-war team and helped United to triumph in the [[1948 FA Cup Final|1947–48 FA Cup]] and was a key member of the [[1951–52 in English football|1951–52]] league championship winning team. He was made club captain during the [[1953–54 in English football|1953–54]] season. Having missed just 13 games in nine seasons at United and with 175 consecutive appearances to his name, Chilton requested a rest from first team action in early 1955. He was replaced by [[Mark Jones (footballer, born 1933)|Mark Jones]], one of the rising [[Busby Babes]], and never returned to first team action.

==Management career==

===Grimsby Town===
He left the club in March 1955 to become player-manager with [[Grimsby Town F.C.|Grimsby Town]]. He joined the Mariners late in the [[1954–55 in English football|1954–55]] season and was unable to stop them having to apply for re-election, but the following season under his management they were champions of Division Three North – the only club ever to go from re-election to promotion in one season.<ref name="Bill Shankly and Allenby Chilton">{{cite news|url=http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/Shankly-Chilton-reigned-supreme/story-25806142-detail/story.html |newspaper=Grimsby Telegraph |title=When Bill Shankly and Allenby Chilton reigned supreme |date=5 January 2015 |access-date=31 May 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503084710/http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/Shankly-Chilton-reigned-supreme/story-25806142-detail/story.html| archive-date=3 May 2015| url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Wigan Athletic===
Chilton continued as manager at Grimsby Town until April 1959 when he joined [[Wigan Athletic F.C.|Wigan Athletic]] as manager for one season during [[1960–61 in English football|1960–61]].

===Hartlepool United===
Chilton joined Hartlepool United as a scout for the [[1961–62 in English football|1961–62]] season and became manager during [[1962–63 in English football|1962–63]].{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}

==References==
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| after=[[Roger Byrne]]
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