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{{Short description|English footballer (born 1942)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Ian Callaghan <br /> <small>[[Order of the British Empire|MBE]]</small>
| image = LFC Legends - FA Cup Final 1974 (25633138964).jpg
| caption = Callaghan in 2016
| full_name = Ian Robert Callaghan
| height = 1.70 m<ref name="nft">{{cite web |last=Strack-Zimmermann |first=Benjamin |title=Ian Callaghan (Player) |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/19628/Ian_Callaghan.html |access-date=15 August 2022 |website=www.national-football-teams.com}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1942|4|10}}
| birth_place = [[Toxteth]], Liverpool, England
| position = [[Midfielder]]
| years1 = 1959–1978
| clubs1 = [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]]
| caps1 = 640<!--LEAGUE GOALS ONLY --->
| goals1 = 49
| years2 = 1978
| clubs2 = → [[Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1977–1983)|Ft Lauderdale Strikers]] (loan)
| caps2 = 20
| goals2 = 0
| years3 = 1978–1981
| clubs3 = [[Swansea City A.F.C.|Swansea City]]
| caps3 = 76
| goals3 = 1
| years4 = 1979
| clubs4 = → [[Canberra City FC|Canberra City]] (loan)
| caps4 = 9
| goals4 = 0
| years5 = 1981
| clubs5 = [[Albert Rovers F.C.|Cork United]]
| caps5 = 2
| goals5 = 0
| years6 = 1981
| years7 = 1981–1982
| clubs6 = [[Crewe Alexandra F.C.|Crewe Alexandra]]
| caps6 = 15
| goals6 = 0
| totalcaps = 762
| totalgoals = 50
| nationalyears1 = 1966–1977
| nationalteam1 = [[England national football team|England]]
| nationalcaps1 = 4
| nationalgoals1 = 0
}}

'''Ian Robert Callaghan''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MBE}} (born 10 April 1942) is an English former professional [[association football|footballer]] who played as a [[midfielder]]. He holds the record for most appearances for [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]].<ref name="appearances">{{cite web |title=Appearances |url=http://www.liverpoolfc.com/history/records/appearances |url-status=dead |publisher=Liverpool F.C. |access-date=27 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813224749/http://www.liverpoolfc.com/history/records/appearances |archive-date=13 August 2012}}</ref> He was appointed a [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in the [[1975 New Year Honours]].<ref>United Kingdom list: {{London Gazette |issue=46444 |date=31 December 1974 |pages=14 |supp=y}}</ref>

== Club career ==
=== Liverpool ===
Callaghan played 857 times for [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] between 1960 and 1978, breaking into the first team just after the appointment of [[Bill Shankly]] as [[List of Liverpool F.C. managers|Liverpool manager]]. He made his debut on 16 April 1960 at [[Anfield]] in a 4–0 victory over [[Bristol Rovers F.C.|Bristol Rovers]]. He was a regular member of the first team by the time Liverpool won promotion to the [[Football League First Division|First Division]] in 1962, and went on to help them win the league title in 1964, 1966, 1973, 1976 and 1977, as well as the [[1965 FA Cup final|1965]] and [[1974 FA Cup final|1974]] [[FA Cup]] finals, the [[UEFA Europa League|UEFA Cup]] in [[1973 UEFA Cup final|1973]] and [[1976 UEFA Cup final|1976]], and the [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] in 1977 (as a substitute) and in 1978. He was voted [[FWA Footballer of the Year]] in 1974.<ref name="appearances" /> He was booked only once in his career, in the [[1978 Football League Cup final|1978 League Cup final]] replay at [[Old Trafford]], which Liverpool lost to [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/Stats/Article/2561|title=A timeline for Liverpool Football Club – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref>

Callaghan played in the [[1977 European Cup final]], when Liverpool beat [[Borussia Mönchengladbach]] 3–1, but in the 1978 season, which proved to be his last year at the club, his playing time was reduced as younger additions like [[Graeme Souness]] and [[Kenny Dalglish]] established themselves at the club. Callaghan was on the substitutes' bench when Liverpool retained the European Cup against [[Club Brugge KV|Club Brugge]] in [[1978 European Cup final|1978]].

=== Later career ===
Callaghan left Liverpool shortly after the 1978 European Cup final and signed for [[Swansea City A.F.C.|Swansea City]], managed by former Liverpool striker [[John Toshack]]. He helped Swansea win a second successive promotion in 1979, which took them into the [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]], and also had brief spells playing in the United States, Australia and Ireland towards the end of his career. He spent the final season of his career in the [[Football League Fourth Division|Fourth Division]] with [[Crewe Alexandra F.C.|Crewe Alexandra]], making 15 appearances in the 1981–82 season and retiring as a player in his 40th year.<ref name=ic1966/>

== International career ==
Of Irish descent,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://unherd.com/2021/07/how-england-and-ireland-made-the-three-lions/|title=The making of the Three Lions|first=Dan|last=Jackson|date=12 July 2021|website=UnHerd}}</ref> Callaghan played four times at senior level for [[England national football team|England]].<ref name=England>{{cite web |title=Ian Callaghan |url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamPlyrsBios/PlayersC/BioCallaghanIR.html |website=englandfootballonline.com |access-date=24 November 2016}}</ref> Although he was in the squad for the [[1966 FIFA World Cup]], he did not play in the [[1966 FIFA World Cup final|final]] so did not receive a medal. He did play in the group-stage match against [[France national football team|France]], assisting [[Roger Hunt]]'s second goal in the 2–0 win on 20 July 1966, one of three wingers tried before manager [[Alf Ramsey]] decided to go with a team with no wingers. Following a [[Football Association]]-led campaign to persuade [[FIFA]] to award medals to all the winners' squad members, Callaghan was presented with his medal by Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]] at a ceremony at [[10 Downing Street]] on 10 June 2009.<ref name=ic1966>{{cite web |title=World Cup 1966 winners honoured|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8093891.stm |publisher=[[BBC Sport]] |date=10 June 2009 |access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref>

After that 1966 match against France, Callaghan's next England appearance, his third, came against [[Switzerland national football team|Switzerland]] on 7 September 1977, aged 35.<ref name=England/> This gap of 11 years 49 days between appearances is the longest such interval for any England player.<ref>{{cite web |title=England players - Longest interval between appearances |url=http://englandfootballonline.com/TeamPlyrs/PlyrsGaps.html |website=englandfootballonline.com |access-date=16 January 2021 |date=11 October 2017}}</ref>

== Career statistics ==
===Club===
[[File:Ian Callaghan (1966).jpg|thumb|right|Callaghan with Liverpool in 1966]]
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center
|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
|-
!rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season
!colspan="3"|League
!colspan="2"|FA Cup
!colspan="2"|League Cup
!colspan="2"|Continental
!colspan="2"|Total
|-
!Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals
|-
|rowspan="20"|[[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/Profile/274|title=Liverpool career stats for Ian Callaghan – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref>
|[[1959–60 Liverpool F.C. season|1959–60]]
|[[Football League Second Division|Second Division]]
|4||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|–||4||0
|-
|[[1960–61 Liverpool F.C. season|1960–61]]
|Second Division
|3||0||0||0||2||0||colspan="2"|–||5||0
|-
|[[1961–62 Liverpool F.C. season|1961–62]]
|Second Division
|23||1||5||0||0||0||colspan="2"|–||28||1
|-
|[[1962–63 Liverpool F.C. season|1962–63]]
|[[Football League First Division|First Division]]
|37||2||6||0||0||0||colspan="2"|–||43||2
|-
|[[1963–64 Liverpool F.C. season|1963–64]]
|First Division
|42||8||5||0||0||0||colspan="2"|–||47||8
|-
|[[1964–65 Liverpool F.C. season|1964–65]]
|First Division
|37||6||8||1||0||0||9||1||55*||8
|-
|[[1965–66 Liverpool F.C. season|1965–66]]
|First Division
|42||5||1||0||0||0||9||0||53*||5
|-
|[[1966–67 Liverpool F.C. season|1966–67]]
|First Division
|40||3||4||0||0||0||5||1||50*||4
|-
|[[1967–68 Liverpool F.C. season|1967–68]]
|First Division
|41||3||9||0||2||1||6||3||58||7
|-
|[[1968–69 Liverpool F.C. season|1968–69]]
|First Division
|42||8||4||1||3||1||2||0||51||10
|-
|[[1969–70 Liverpool F.C. season|1969–70]]
|First Division
|41||3||6||0||2||0||4||2||53||5
|-
|[[1970–71 Liverpool F.C. season|1970–71]]
|First Division
|23||0||5||0||1||0||5||0||34||0
|-
|[[1971–72 Liverpool F.C. season|1971–72]]
|First Division
|41||2||3||0||3||0||4||0||52*||2
|-
|[[1972–73 Liverpool F.C. season|1972–73]]
|First Division
|42||3||4||0||8||0||12||1||66||4
|-
|[[1973–74 Liverpool F.C. season|1973–74]]
|First Division
|42||0||9||0||6||3||4||0||61||3
|-
|[[1974–75 Liverpool F.C. season|1974–75]]
|First Division
|41||1||2||0||3||0||4||1||51*||2
|-
|[[1975–76 Liverpool F.C. season|1975–76]]
|First Division
|40||3||2||0||3||0||12||1||57||4
|-
|[[1976–77 Liverpool F.C. season|1976–77]]
|First Division
|33||1||5||0||2||1||7||0||48*||2
|-
|[[1977–78 Liverpool F.C. season|1977–78]]
|First Division
|26||0||1||0||7||0||6||1||41*||1
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!640||49||79||2||42||6||89||11||857||68
|-
|[[Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1977–1983)|Fort Lauderdale Strikers]]
|[[1978 North American Soccer League season|1978]]
|[[North American Soccer League (1968–1984)|NASL]]
|20||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|—||20||0
|-
|rowspan="3"|[[Swansea City A.F.C.|Swansea City]]
|[[1978–79 Football League|1978–79]]
|[[Football League Third Division|Third Division]]
|40||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||40||0
|-
|[[1979–80 Football League|1979–80]]
|Second Division
|36||1||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||36||1
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!76||1||8||0||0||0||0||0||76||1
|-
|[[Canberra City FC|Canberra City]] (loan)
|[[1979 National Soccer League|1979]]
|[[National Soccer League|NSL]]
|9||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||9||0
|-
|[[Cork United F.C. (1979–1982)|Cork United]]
|[[1980–81 League of Ireland|1980–81]]
|[[League of Ireland|LOI]]
|2||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||2||0
|-
|[[Crewe Alexandra F.C.|Crewe Alexandra]]
|[[1981–82 Football League|1981–82]]
|[[Football League Fourth Division|Fourth Division]]
|15||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||15||0
|-
!colspan="3"|Career total
!762||50||88||2||42||6||89||11||979||68
|}

[[FA Community Shield|*]] Includes one appearance in the [[FA Community Shield|FA Charity Shield]]

[[FA Community Shield|^]] Includes one goal in the [[FA Community Shield|FA Charity Shield]]

===International===
:Source:<ref name="nft"/>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Appearances and goals by national team and year
|-
!National team!!Year!!Apps!!Goals
|-
|rowspan="2" |[[England national football team|England]]
|1966||2||0
|-
|1977||2||0
|-
!colspan="2"|Total||4||0
|}

== Honours ==
'''Liverpool'''
*[[Football League First Division]]: [[1963–64 Football League|1963–64]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/LeagueTable/5|title=League table for the 1963–1964 season – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref> [[1965–66 Football League|1965–66]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/LeagueTable/7|title=League table for the 1965–1966 season – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref> [[1972–73 Football League|1972–73]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/LeagueTable/14|title=League table for the 1972–1973 season – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref> [[1975–76 Football League|1975–76]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/LeagueTable/17|title=League table for the 1975–1976 season – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref> [[1976–77 Football League|1976–77]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/LeagueTable/18|title=League table for the 1976–1977 season – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref>
*[[Football League Second Division]]: [[1961–62 Football League|1961–62]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/LeagueTable/3|title=League table for the 1961–1962 season – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref>
*[[FA Cup]]: [[1964–65 FA Cup|1964–65]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/292|title=Matchdetails from Liverpool – Leeds United played on 1 May 1965 – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref> [[1973–74 FA Cup|1973–74]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/804|title=Matchdetails from Liverpool – Newcastle United played on 4 May 1974 – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref> runner-up: [[1970–71 FA Cup|1970–71]],<ref name="FACW"/> [[1976–77 FA Cup|1976–77]]<ref name="FACW">{{cite book |first1=Leslie |first2=Jack |last1=Vernon |last2=Rollin |title=Rothmans Football Yearbook 1977–78 |year=1977 |publisher=Brickfield Publications Ltd |location=London |isbn=0354-09018-6 |page=491}}</ref>
*[[FA Charity Shield]]: [[1964 FA Charity Shield|1964]] (shared),<ref>{{cite web|title=1964/65 Charity Shield |url=http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/CommunityShield/1964-65CharityShield.htm|publisher=footballsite.co.uk|access-date=5 April 2020}}</ref> [[1965 FA Charity Shield|1965]] (shared),<ref>{{cite web|title=1965/66 Charity Shield |url=http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/CommunityShield/1965-66CharityShield.htm|publisher=footballsite.co.uk|access-date=5 April 2020}}</ref> [[1966 FA Charity Shield|1966]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/349|title=Matchdetails from Everton – Liverpool played on 13 August 1966 – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref> [[1974 FA Charity Shield|1974]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/806|title=Matchdetails from Liverpool – Leeds United played on 10 August 1974 – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref> [[1976 FA Charity Shield|1976]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/918|title=Matchdetails from Liverpool – Southampton played on 14 August 1976 – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref> [[1977 FA Charity Shield|1977]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/980|title=Matchdetails from Liverpool – Manchester United played on 13 August 1977 – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref>
*[[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]]: [[1976–77 European Cup|1976–77]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/979|title=Matchdetails from Liverpool – Borussia Moenchengladbach played on 25 May 1977 – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref> [[1977–78 European Cup|1977–78]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1041|title=Matchdetails from Liverpool – Bruges played on 10 May 1978 – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref>
*[[UEFA Cup]]: [[1972–73 UEFA Cup|1972–73]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/743|title=Matchdetails from Liverpool – Borussia Moenchengladbach played on 10 May 1973 – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/744|title=Matchdetails from Borussia Moenchengladbach – Liverpool played on 23 May 1973 – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref> [[1975–76 UEFA Cup|1975–76]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/915|title=Matchdetails from Liverpool – Bruges played on 28 April 1976 – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/917|title=Matchdetails from Bruges – Liverpool played on 19 May 1976 – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref>
*[[UEFA Super Cup|European Super Cup]]: [[1977 European Super Cup|1977]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1001|title=Matchdetails from Hamburg SV – Liverpool played on 22 November 1977 – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1005|title=Matchdetails from Liverpool – Hamburg SV played on 6 December 1977 – LFChistory – Stats galore for Liverpool FC!|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref>

'''England'''
*[[FIFA World Cup]]: [[1966 FIFA World Cup|1966]]

== See also ==
*[[List of men's footballers with the most official appearances]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
* [https://www.liverpoolfc.com/info/ian-callaghan Profile] at the Liverpool F.C. website
* {{FIFA player}}
* {{UEFA player}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080617192747/http://lfchistory.net/player_profile.asp?player_id=274 Player profile at LFChistory.net]
* [http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football-heroes/displayhero_club.asp?HeroID=8314 Football heroes at sporting-heroes.net]
* [http://www.thisisanfield.com/columnists/2003/04/forgotten-heroes-ian-callaghan/ Thisisanfield.com Forgotten Heroes]
* [http://www.lfchistory.net/Articles/Article/2244-1 The Ian Callaghan interview at LFChistory.net] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419150849/http://www.lfchistory.net/Articles/Article/2244-1 |date=19 April 2014 }}
* [http://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/index.php/articles.html/_/fe/interviews-features/its-cally-r24 Ian Callaghan interview at Liverpoolway.co.uk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914064615/http://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/index.php/articles.html/_/fe/interviews-features/its-cally-r24 |date=14 September 2017 }}
* [http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Players/CAB.html#IanCallaghan Ian Callaghan] at Aussie Footballers

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