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{{Short description|English footballer and manager}}
{{For|the Nelson FC player of the 1920s|Edgar Chadwick (footballer, born 1891)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Edgar Chadwick
| image = Player chadwick.jpg
| image_size = 150
| caption =
| fullname = Edgar Wallace Chadwick
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1869|6|14|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Blackburn]], England
| death_date  = {{death date and age|df=y|1942|2|14|1869|6|14}}
| death_place = [[Blackburn]], England
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=6}}
| position = [[Inside left]]
| youthyears1= 1884–1886
| youthclubs1= Little Dots F.C.
| years1 = 1886–1887| clubs1 = [[Blackburn Olympic F.C.|Blackburn Olympic]]| caps1 = 0 | goals1 = 0 
| years2 = 1887–1888| clubs2 = [[Blackburn Rovers F.C.|Blackburn Rovers]]| caps2 = 0 | goals2 = 0 
| years3 = 1888–1899 | clubs3 = [[Everton F.C.|Everton]]| caps3 = 270 | goals3 = 97 
| years4 = 1899–1900 | clubs4 = [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]]| caps4 = 31 | goals4 = 10 
| years5 = 1900–1902 | clubs5 = [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]]| caps5 = 52 | goals5 = 18 
| years6 = 1902–1904 | clubs6 = [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]]| caps6 = 43 | goals6 = 7 
| years7 = 1904–1905 | clubs7 = [[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]]| caps7 = 34 | goals7 = 8 
| years8 = 1905–1906 | clubs8 = [[Glossop North End A.F.C.|Glossop North End]]| caps8 = 35 | goals8 = 5 
| years9 =1906–1908  | clubs9 = [[Darwen F.C. (1870)|Darwen]]| caps9 = | goals9 =
| totalcaps = 465 | totalgoals = 145
| nationalyears1= 1891–1897
| nationalteam1= [[England national football team|England]]
| nationalcaps1= 7 | nationalgoals1 = 3
| manageryears1 = 1908–1913 | managerclubs1 = [[Netherlands national football team|Netherlands]] 
| manageryears2 =           | managerclubs2 = [[HVV Den Haag|HVV]] 
| manageryears3 =           | managerclubs3 = [[Koninklijke HFC|HFC]]
| manageryears4 = 1915      | managerclubs4 =[[Sparta Rotterdam]]
}}

'''Edgar Wallace Chadwick''' (14 June 1869 – 14 February 1942) was a left-sided [[association football|footballer]] who had a long and distinguished career with [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] during the 1890s. He was also the national coach for the [[Netherlands national football team|Netherlands]] from 1908 to 1913.

His cousin, [[Arthur Chadwick]], also played for [[England national football team|England]] and [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]], while another cousin, [[Albert Chadwick (English footballer)|Albert Chadwick]], played for [[Everton F.C.|Everton]].

==Playing career==
===Early career===
Born in [[Blackburn]], he started his career at 15 with Little Dots FC, before signing as a professional with [[Blackburn Olympic F.C.|Blackburn Olympic]] in 1886. After one season at Olympic, he then joined [[Blackburn Rovers F.C.|Blackburn Rovers]] where he spent the 1887–88 season before signing for [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] in July 1888.

===Everton===
====1888–89====
Described by one source as one of the best known players of his day, 5&nbsp;ft 6&nbsp;in tall, he was a master strategist and dribbler with the ball.<ref>{{cite book|last=Matthews|first=Tony|title=Who's Who of Everton|year=2004|publisher=Mainstream Publishing|isbn=1-84018-819-7|pages=52–53}}</ref> 
 
Chadwick signed for Everton on 1 July 1888 and made his club and league debut on 8 September 1888, playing as a forward, at [[Anfield]], the then home of Everton. The home team defeated the visitors [[Accrington F.C.|Accrington]] 2–1. When he played as a forward against Accrington on 8 September 1888, Chadwick was 19 years 86 days old; which made him, on that first weekend of league football, Everton's youngest player. Chadwick scored his debut club and league goal on 15 September 1888, playing as a forward, at Anfield. The visitors were [[Notts County F.C.|Notts County]] and the home team won 2–1 with Chadwick scoring the first of Everton's two goals. Chadwick appeared in all the 22 League matches played by Everton in the 1888–89 season and was the only player to achieve 22 matches in that first season. Chadwick also top scored for Everton with six League goals. Chadwick played in a forward line that scored three–League–goals–or–more on four separate occasions.<ref>{{cite book |last=Metcalf| first=Mark| title=The Origins of the Football League| year=2013| publisher=Amberley|isbn=978-1-4456-1881-4|pages=35–36}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title= English National Football Archive| url=http://www.enfa.co.uk//| access-date=28 January 2018}} (registration & fee required)</ref>

====1889 onwards====
He was an ever-present in Everton's first two years as a Football League team. In 1889–90 Everton finished runners-up, with Chadwick contributing nine goals. He scored in five of the 14 League Games Everton won that season.<ref>{{cite web | title= English National Football Archive| url=http://www.enfa.co.uk//| access-date=24 February 2023}} (registration & fee required)</ref> In the following season, [[1890-91 in English football|1890–91]], Everton won the League Championship with Chadwick contributing ten goals and assisting fellow forwards [[Fred Geary]] and [[Alf Milward]] to score 20 and 12, respectively, as Everton were also the top scorers with a total of 63 goals from 22 games.

Chadwick was nicknamed "Hooky", as his frequent trick was to run with the ball parallel with the goal line, drawing the goalkeeper in the direction of the post, before hooking the ball into the opposite corner of the net.

In [[FA Cup Final 1893|1893]], Everton reached the final of the [[FA Cup]], played at [[Fallowfield Stadium]] in Manchester, where they were defeated 1–0 by [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolverhampton Wanderers]].

Over the next few seasons, Everton continued to be a major force in the Football League, coming runner-up in [[1894-95 in English football#First Division|1894–95]] and reaching another Cup final in [[FA Cup Final 1897|1897]] played at [[Crystal Palace National Sports Centre|Crystal Palace]] where again they were defeated, this time by [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]], 3–2.

Chadwick spent two further seasons at Everton before joining [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]] in May 1899.

In all, he spent eleven years with Everton, making 270 league appearances, plus a further 30 in the FA Cup, contributing 97 league and 13 cup goals. His goals tally ranks him eighth in the all-time list of Everton goal-scorers and makes him the earliest of Everton's football "legends".

===England===
Chadwick's contribution to Everton's League winning team was recognised by a call up to the [[England national football team|England]] team (alongside Alf Milward) for the British Home Championship match against [[Wales national football team|Wales]] on 7 March 1891. England were comfortable 4–1 winners with Chadwick and Milward claiming a goal each. Chadwick went on to make a total of seven appearances for England, scoring 3 goals.

===Later career===
His season at Burnley was not a great success, and although Chadwick was the team's top scorer, with ten goals, he could not prevent them being relegated to the Second Division. In a match against [[Glossop North End F.C.|Glossop North End]] in December 1899, Chadwick scored all three goals in a 3–1 victory.

In August 1900 he moved to [[Southern Football League|Southern League]] [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]], where he was re-united with his former Everton left-wing colleague Alf Milward. Chadwick and Milward's partnership contributed 26 goals (14 and 12, respectively) as Southampton once again took the Southern League championship. In the following season, Southampton reached the [[FA Cup Final 1902|FA Cup final]], which they lost in a replay to [[Sheffield United F.C.|Sheffield United]].

In May 1902 he sought fresh fields, but as Burnley still held his Football League registration he had to pay them £35 to release him to join [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]], where he stayed for two seasons before moving on to [[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]] in 1904. He was an ever-present for Blackpool in his one season with the club, and was also the club's top scorer with eight goals.<ref>Calley, Roy (1992). ''Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887–1992'', Breedon Books Sport {{ISBN|1-873626-07-X}}</ref>

He then played out his career with a season at [[Glossop North End F.C.|Glossop North End]] before dropping out of the league to join [[Darwen F.C. (1870)|Darwen]] where his long career finally ended in 1908 aged 39.

==Coaching career==
After hanging up his boots in 1908, he moved to the continent where he coached in Germany before moving to the Netherlands where he coached various club sides including [[HVV Den Haag|The Hague]] and [[HVV Den Haag|Haarlem]] sides.

In 1908, Chadwick was approached to become coach of the Netherlands national team. The experts are in disagreement as to whether Chadwick, or his predecessor [[Cees van Hasselt]], should be considered as the first manager of the Netherlands national team.

Chadwick was appointed manager of the [[Netherlands national football team|Netherlands]] to prepare the team for the [[1908 Summer Olympics]] held in London. As [[Hungary national football team|Hungary]] had pulled out of the tournament, the Netherlands had a bye into the semi-finals, where they met [[England national amateur football team|Great Britain]]. This match ended in a 4–0 defeat (with all four goals coming from [[Harold Stapley]], who later spent six seasons with [[Glossop North End A.F.C.|Glossop North End]]); and the Netherlands then played [[Sweden men's national football team|Sweden]] for the [[Football at the 1908 Summer Olympics#Bronze medal match|bronze medal]], winning 2–0, as a result of which the Dutch gained their first international success.

Chadwick managed the Netherlands national team for 24 games (generally friendlies against Belgium), winning 14. In 1909 they met the [[England national amateur football team|England amateur side]] and were defeated 9–1 (with six goals from [[Vivian Woodward]], who was an amateur who spent six seasons with [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]), but against [[Belgium national football team|Belgium]], [[Germany national football team|Germany]] and [[Sweden men's national football team|Sweden]] they avoided defeat.

[[File:Sport 1912, SFA022003856.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|Chadwick (left) with the Netherlands national team during the 1912 Olympics]]
During the [[1912 Summer Olympics]] held in [[Stockholm]] (where eleven teams participated in the football tournament, against only six in 1908) the Dutch defeated [[Sweden men's national football team|Sweden]] and [[Austria national football team|Austria]], but lost in the [[Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics#Results|semi-final]] 4–1 to [[Denmark national football team|Denmark]]. In the play-off for the bronze medal [[Finland national football team|Finland]] were crushed 9–0 with [[Jan Vos (footballer)|Jan Vos]] scoring five goals.

The greatest success of Chadwick's career as Dutch manager came on 24 March 1913, in a friendly against the English amateurs, which resulted in a 2–1 victory. Both Dutch goals came from [[Huug de Groot]]. After the match [[Vivian Woodward]] generously conceded: "The best team won."

Chadwick led the Netherlands national team again, in November 1913, when the English gained their revenge with a 2–1 victory.

He was also the coach of [[Sparta Rotterdam]], with whom he won the 1915 Netherlands championship.

After [[World War I]], he returned to [[Blackburn]] and reverted to his original trade as a baker. In December 1923, he applied for the manager's job at [[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]], but after being on a short-list of two, he lost out to [[Frank Buckley (footballer)|Frank Buckley]].

==Honours==
===As a player===
'''Everton'''
* [[Football League First Division|Football League]] champions: [[1890-91 in English football|1890–91]]
* [[FA Cup]] finalist: [[FA Cup Final 1893|1893]] and [[FA Cup Final 1897|1897]]

'''Southampton'''
* [[FA Cup]] finalist: [[FA Cup Final 1902|1902]]
* [[Southern Football League|Southern League]] championships: 1900–01

===As a manager===
'''Netherlands'''
* Olympic Games – Bronze medal: [[Football at the 1908 Summer Olympics|1908]] & [[Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics|1912]]

'''Sparta Rotterdam'''
*[[Netherlands Football League Championship 1914–15|Dutch Championship]]: 1915
*Dutch Western Division: 1915

==Managerial statistics==
<ref>{{Cite web
 |url=http://www.voetbalstats.nl/nedxi/co11.html 
 |title=Bondscoach Edgar Chadwick 
 |publisher=Voetbalstats.nl 
 |access-date=31 December 2008 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724023058/http://www.voetbalstats.nl/nedxi/co11.html 
 |archive-date=24 July 2008 
 |language=nl 
 |url-status=dead 
 |df=dmy 
}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Team
!rowspan="2"|Nat
!rowspan="2"|From
!rowspan="2"|To
!colspan="8"|Record
|-
!G!!W!!L!!D!!Win %!!F!!A!!Goal +/-
|-
|align=left| [[Netherlands national football team|Netherlands]]
| {{flagicon|NED}}
|align=left| 22 October 1908
|align=left| 15 November 1913
| 24 || 14 || 8 || 2 || {{#expr: 14/24*100 round 2}} || 71 || 57 || +14
|-
|}

==References==
;General
*{{cite book |
   author= Holley, Duncan & Chalk, Gary |
   title=The Alphabet of the Saints|
   publisher= ACL & Polar Publishing |
   year=1992|
   isbn=0-9514862-3-3}}
*{{cite book |
   author= Chalk, Gary & Holley, Duncan |
   title=Saints – A complete record|
   publisher= Breedon Books|
   year=1987|
   isbn=0-907969-22-4}}
*[http://www.voetbalstats.nl/nedxi/co11.html Career record as Netherlands manager]
;Specific
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Englandstats}}
*[http://www.lfchistory.net/player_profile.asp?player_id=570 Liverpool FC Profile]
*[http://www.evertonfc.com/history/everton-legends-a-e.html Everton F.C. Profile]

{{Netherlands Squad 1908 Summer Olympics}}
{{Netherlands Squad 1912 Olympic Football Tournament}}
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