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{{Short description|English footballer (b. 1965)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Tony Cottee
| image = Tony Cottee at Tony Carr's testimonial.jpg
| upright = 0.9
| caption = Cottee at a [[Testimonial match|testimonial]] for [[Tony Carr]] in 2010
| full_name = Antony Richard Cottee
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1965|7|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Forest Gate]], London, England
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=7}}<ref name=soccerbase/>
| position = [[Striker (association football)|Striker]]
| years1 = 1982–1988
| clubs1 = [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United]]
| caps1 = 212
| goals1 = 92
| years2 = 1988–1994
| clubs2 = [[Everton F.C.|Everton]]
| caps2 = 184
| goals2 = 72
| years3 = 1994–1996
| clubs3 = [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United]]
| caps3 = 67
| goals3 = 23
| years4 = 1996–1997
| clubs4 = [[Selangor FA|Selangor]]
| caps4 = 24
| goals4 = 14
| years5 = 1997–2000
| clubs5 = [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]]
| caps5 = 85
| goals5 = 27
| years6 = 1997
| clubs6 = → [[Birmingham City F.C.|Birmingham City]] (loan)
| caps6 = 5
| goals6 = 1
| years7 = 2000
| clubs7 = [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]]
| caps7 = 7
| goals7 = 1
| years8 = 2000–2001
| clubs8 = [[Barnet F.C.|Barnet]]
| caps8 = 16
| goals8 = 9
| years9 = 2001
| clubs9 = [[Millwall F.C.|Millwall]]
| caps9 = 2
| goals9 = 0
| totalcaps = 602
| totalgoals = 239
| nationalyears1 = 1982      | nationalteam1 = [[England national under-18 football team|England Youth]]    | nationalcaps1 = 3  | nationalgoals1 = 1
| nationalyears2 = 1984–1987
| nationalteam2 = [[England under-21 national football team|England U21]]
| nationalcaps2 = 8
| nationalgoals2 = 1
| nationalyears3 = 1986–1989
| nationalteam3 = [[England national football team|England]]
| nationalcaps3 = 7
| nationalgoals3 = 0
| manageryears1 = 2000–2001
| managerclubs1 = [[Barnet F.C.|Barnet]]
}}

'''Antony Richard Cottee''' (born 11 July 1965) is an English former professional [[association football|footballer]] and manager who now works as a television football commentator.

As a player, he was a [[striker (association football)|striker]] from 1982 until 2001, notably playing in the top flight of English football for [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United]], [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] and [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]]. He was capped seven times by [[England national football team|England]], and played in the [[Football League]] for [[Birmingham City F.C.|Birmingham City]], [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]] and [[Millwall F.C.|Millwall]]. He also had a spell in [[Malaysia]] with [[Selangor FA|Selangor]] and spent a season as player-manager of [[Barnet F.C.|Barnet]].

He played in Everton's [[1989 FA Cup final]] defeat to [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]], and won the [[Football League Cup|League Cup]] with Leicester City in 2000. His final career tally was 579 league games and 226 goals. In all competitions, he played 712 games and 293 goals. He exceeded his ambition to score 200 league goals in his career, but fell just short of his target of 300 goals in all competitions. Still, he was one of the most prolific goalscorers that English football saw during the 1980s and 1990s.<ref name="sp36647">{{cite web|url=http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football-heroes/displayhero_club.asp?HeroID=36647 |title=Tony Cottee |publisher=Sporting-heroes.net |access-date=15 June 2010}}</ref><ref name=soccerbase>{{cite web |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=1679 |title=Tony Cottee |website=Soccerbase |access-date=5 October 2023 |url-status=live |archive-date=6 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106100732/http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=1679}}</ref>

==Playing career==

===West Ham United===
Born in [[Forest Gate]],<ref name=fg>{{cite news |title=TC and gang are top cats for our appeal launch |url=http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/tc_and_gang_are_top_cats_for_our_appeal_launch_1_570502 |website=edp24.co.uk |date=11 November 2009 |access-date=5 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325165312/http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/tc_and_gang_are_top_cats_for_our_appeal_launch_1_570502 |archive-date=25 March 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> London, Cottee began his career at West Ham, where he made his first team debut in the First Division against Tottenham Hotspur on 1 January 1983, at the age of 17, scoring in the process. He played a total of eight games in the [[1982-83 in English football|1982–83 season]], scoring five goals. He established himself in the first team during the [[1983-84 in English football|1983–84 season]], when still only 18, and scored 15 times in the league. He did even better in [[1984-85 in English football|1984–85]], when he scored 17 First Division goals. By the age of 20, he had already managed an impressive 37 league goals.<ref name="sp39185">{{cite web|url=http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football-heroes/displayhero_club.asp?HeroID=39185 |title=Tony Cottee |publisher=Sporting-heroes.net |access-date=15 June 2010}}</ref>

He was a prolific scorer in first spell at West Ham, where he was voted the [[PFA Young Player of the Year]] in 1986, the year where West Ham finished third (their highest league finish to date) and came just four points away from the title. He scored 20 times in the league during that season, though his strike partner [[Frank McAvennie]] did even better with 26 league goals. Still, their 46-goal strike partnership was the most prolific in the league that season.<ref name="sp39186">{{cite web|url=http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football-heroes/displayhero_club.asp?HeroID=39186 |title=Tony Cottee |publisher=Sporting-heroes.net |access-date=15 June 2010}}</ref>

[[1986-87 in English football|1986–87]] saw Cottee score 22 league goals – which would be the highest of his career. However, Frank McAvennie alongside him could only manage seven league goals that season and this contributed to a downturn in West Ham's form as they finished 15th. Cottee managed a further 13 league goals in [[1987-88 in English football|1987–88]], but McAvennie had been sold to [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]] early in the season and the failure of manager [[John Lyall]] to find an adequate replacement contributed to West Ham disappointing in the league again, finishing 16th. By this time, the 23-year-old Cottee had already managed 212 league games and 92 goals for Hammers.<ref name="sp39186"/>

===Everton===
Cottee briefly became the most expensive player to be signed by a British club when on 2 August 1988 he joined [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] in a £2.2 million deal (a fee eclipsed by [[Ian Rush]]'s return to [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] from [[Juventus]] later that month).

He made his Everton debut on 27 August 1988, the opening day of the [[1988-89 in English football|1988–89]] First Division campaign, in a 4–0 home win over [[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]] in which he scored a hat-trick. He managed a further 10 league goals that season, though Everton were relatively disappointing in the league as they finished eighth – having been a top four club and twice champions in the previous four seasons. However, they did reach the [[1989 FA Cup final|FA Cup]] final and were paired with neighbours [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] at [[Wembley Stadium|Wembley]] on 20 May 1989. It was a close contest but in the end Everton lost 3–2 in extra time. Earlier in the season Cottee and his colleagues and been on the receiving end of another Wembley defeat, this time to [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]] who beat them 4–3 in the final of the [[Full Members Cup]], but Cottee still managed to get on the scoresheet twice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.toffeeweb.com/history/records/hatricks.asp |title=Everton Hatricks |publisher=Toffeeweb.com |access-date=15 June 2010}}</ref><ref name="sp39187">{{cite web|url=http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football-heroes/displayhero_club.asp?HeroID=39187 |title=Tony Cottee |publisher=Sporting-heroes.net |access-date=15 June 2010}}</ref>

Cottee spent his first season at [[Goodison Park]] playing alongside [[Graeme Sharp]], but for [[1989-90 in English football|1989–90]] manager [[Colin Harvey]] changed the formation to 4–3–3 and brought in [[Mike Newell (footballer)|Mike Newell]] as Everton's third striker. The season began very promisingly for Everton, who went top of the league on 21 October and stayed there until mid November, but their title hopes gradually disintegrated and they finished sixth while the title went to Liverpool. Cottee scored 13 league goals that season.<ref name="sp39187"/>

[[1990-91 in English football|1990–91]] was arguably Everton's worst season in a decade. Harvey was sacked on 31 October 1990 with the Toffees third from bottom in the First Division, and a week later [[Howard Kendall]] (who had guided them to two league titles, an FA Cup and a [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|European Cup Winners' Cup]] in his first spell from 1981 to 1987) was appointed with Harvey returning as his assistant. Everton's form improved under Kendall and they finished ninth, also reaching the [[FA Cup]] quarter-finals and ousting Liverpool in the fifth round after two replays; Cottee was Everton's saviour in the first replay on 21 February as he scored a late equaliser which forced a 4–4 draw in [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]]'s last game before the resignation of manager [[Kenny Dalglish]] the following day.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/jan/14/kenny-dalglish-liverpool-everton-4-4 |title=The game that forced Kenny Dalglish to resign as Liverpool manager |first=Louise |last=Taylor |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=14 January 2011 |access-date=24 August 2020}}</ref> Cottee managed 10 league goals in the 1990–91 season.

[[1991-92 in English football|1991–92]] was another frustrating season for Cottee and Everton, after the upturn in form that had followed Howard Kendall’s return as manager. By mid November he had two new strike partners in [[Peter Beardsley]] and [[Mo Johnston]] following the sale of both Graeme Sharp and Mike Newell, and while the revamped forward line was reasonably productive, the rest of the team struggled to match their standards. Cottee was restricted to eight goals from 24 games through injury, and Everton finished mid table once again. It was the first time since his debut season nine years earlier that he had scored less than 10 league goals in a season.

[[1992-93 in English football|1992–93]] saw Everton participate in the inaugural [[FA Premier League]], and Cottee did better this time, scoring 12 goals.

He managed 16 league goals in [[1993-94 in English football|1993–94]], including two hat-tricks, adding a further three goals in cup competitions. But the season almost ended in disaster for Everton who only narrowly avoided relegation just seven years after being league champions. Cottee scores Everton's first two hat-tricks in the Premier League, the first being in a 4–2 home win over [[Sheffield United F.C.|Sheffield United]] early in the season, and then in a 6–2 home win over [[Swindon Town F.C.|Swindon Town]] in January.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.toffeeweb.com/history/records/hatricks.asp|title=ToffeeWeb - History - Everton Hat-tricks|website=www.toffeeweb.com}}</ref>

New manager Mike Walker, who arrived in January 1994, promised an overhaul of the squad and Cottee was soon being linked with a move back to West Ham after six years on Merseyside. During his absence, the Hammers had been relegated and promoted twice, but were now in the Premier League.

===Return to West Ham===
He returned to West Ham United on 7 September 1994 in a part exchange deal for defender [[David Burrows (footballer)|David Burrows]] plus cash. Everton manager Mike Walker had signed Nigerian [[Daniel Amokachi]] fresh from World Cup duty and financed the move by selling Cottee, much to Everton fans' disapproval. He had played 184 league games in six years for the Toffees, scoring 76 goals, but had not won any major trophies, and Everton had never finished higher than sixth during his time there. His overall career tally for league goals now stood at 164.<ref name="sp39187"/>

Cottee made his second debut for the Hammers away to Liverpool and was sent off after 54 minutes, although his first season back at [[Boleyn Ground|Upton Park]] brought 13 league goals as he helped West Ham fight off relegation and finished 14th in their first season under the management of [[Harry Redknapp]]. He had a further 10 goals in [[1995-96 in English football|1995–96]] as the Hammers finished 10th – their highest finish since 1986 – but he then lost his place in the team to new arrivals [[Florin Raducioiu]] and [[Hugo Porfirio]], managing just three games and failing to score in the Premier League before joining [[Selangor FA|Selangor]] of [[Malaysia]] in October 1996. Over two spells at West Ham, he had scored 115 league goals. Added to his goals scored for Everton, he had now managed 187 league goals.

===Selangor and Leicester City===

In the autumn of 1996, he joined Malaysian club [[Selangor FA|Selangor]] for £750,000, where he won the Malaysian FA Cup, his first trophy as a player.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12040/8872304/brits-abroad|title=Brits abroad - Tony Cottee|publisher=Sky Sports}}</ref> In August 1997, he signed for [[Leicester City]] for £500,000 where he was presented with his first chance of European football at the age of 32 as Leicester had an ultimately short lived campaign in [[UEFA Cup 1997-98|that season]]'s [[UEFA Cup]]. He managed 19 league games and scored four goals as the Foxes finished 10th, and one of those goals came in a shock 1–0 win over title chasing [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] at [[Old Trafford]] on 31 January 1998. He also had a loan spell at [[Birmingham City F.C.|Birmingham City]] in Division One that season, and in his first taste of second-tier football managed to score one goal.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-cottee-approaches-the-elite-200-club-1184881.html |title=Football: Cottee approaches the elite 200 club – Sport |work=The Independent |date=14 November 1998 |access-date=15 June 2010 | location=London | first=Phil | last=Shaw}}</ref> In the semi-final of the [[1998–99 Football League Cup]] against [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]] Cottee scored three goals across the two legs (two in the first and one in the second) to help Leicester win 3–2 on aggregate.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cottee ends Sunderland resistance |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/1999/feb/18/match.leicestercity|access-date=20 October 2016|work=The Guardian |date=18 February 1999}}</ref> However they lost the [[1999 Football League Cup final|final]] to [[Tottenham Hotspur]]. 

In [[1999-2000 in English football|1999–2000]], aged 34, he finally won a major trophy in England as he helped Leicester defeat [[Tranmere Rovers]] 2–1 in the [[2000 Football League Cup final|Football League Cup final]]. That season he scored 13 league goals, which remained the most Premier League goals scored by a Leicester player in a single season until the [[2015–16 Premier League|2015–16 season]], when [[Jamie Vardy]] surpassed his total.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34895404 |title=Garth Crooks' team of the week: Kane, Coutinho, Vardy, De Gea |publisher=BBC Sport |date=22 November 2015 |access-date=23 November 2015 | first=Garth | last=Crooks}}</ref> He remained at [[Filbert Street]] until 11 September 2000, by which time he had played a total of 85 league games for the Foxes and scored 27 goals. This brought his total career tally to 214 goals in the English top division, making him the 17th highest goal scorer in the history of English top flight football.<ref>{{Cite web
| title = Top Division English League Goal Scorers 1888-2015
| url = http://www.free-elements.com/England/ts0.html
| publisher = free-elements.com
| access-date = 23 November 2015}}</ref>

===Later career===
In September 2000, Cottee joined [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]] as player-coach under recently appointed manager [[Bryan Hamilton]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/norwich/919040.stm |title=Cottee clinches Canaries deal |work=BBC News |date=10 September 2000 |access-date=15 June 2010}}</ref> however this did not last long as Cottee struggled to meet the demands placed on him, scoring two goals against Blackpool in the League Cup<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/worthington_cup/930748.stm
|title=Norwich 3–3 Blackpool
|publisher=BBC
|date=19 September 2000 |access-date=1 January 2010}}</ref> and Sheffield United in the league.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/981756.stm
|title=Norwich 4–2 Sheffield Utd
|publisher=BBC
|date=21 October 2000 |access-date=1 January 2010}}</ref>

A week after resigning from Barnet, Cottee signed for [[Millwall F.C.|Millwall]] on transfer deadline day. During this season, which was his last as a player, Cottee played for a different team in each of the top four divisions of English football in the same season, a rare achievement last performed by [[goalkeeper (association football)|goalkeeper]] [[Eric Nixon]] in [[1986-87 in English football|1986–87]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/millwall/1246988.stm|title=Cottee completes the set|date=28 March 2001|access-date=28 July 2008|publisher=BBC Sport Online}}</ref>

==Management career==
After being released by Norwich on 31 October 2000, he took over as player-manager of [[Barnet F.C.|Barnet]], a team closer to his home in London. After winning his first game with the club 7–0 vs Blackpool, Barnet hit a run of poor form which left them facing relegation from [[the Football League]]. Cottee resigned on 16 March 2001,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/barnet/1224277.stm |title=Cottee leaves Barnet |work=BBC News |date=16 March 2001 |access-date=15 June 2010}}</ref> however his replacement, [[John Still (footballer)|John Still]] (who left the club just before Cottee's appointment six months earlier), was unable to rescue the team from relegation. However, Cottee did manage an impressive nine goals from 16 Division Three games.

==International career==
Cottee made his debut for [[England national football team|England]] against [[Sweden men's national football team|Sweden]] on 10 September 1986 as a substitute and went on to win 7 caps, starting once against [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] at [[Hampden Park]] in the [[1989 Rous Cup]] in a 2–0 win.

==Personal life==
Cottee has stated that he diligently maintains a scrapbook containing press cuttings of every goal he scored throughout his playing career.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/leaguetwo/4775144/Nationwide-Division-Three-Cottee-takes-hold-of-guiding-hand.html |title=Cottee takes hold of guiding hand |first=Mike |last=Berry |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=6 November 2000 |access-date=17 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911060404/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/leaguetwo/4775144/Nationwide-Division-Three-Cottee-takes-hold-of-guiding-hand.html |archive-date=11 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/greyhoundexpress/docs/issue_4/28|title=Greyhound Express Issue 4|date=31 May 2013 |access-date=10 August 2016}}</ref>

===Media career===
He is currently a commentator with [[Sky Sports]] and occasional pundit for Malaysian network [[Astro TVIQ|Astro]], appearing on its [[2010 FIFA World Cup|2010 World Cup]] and [[Premier League]] studio coverage in Kuala Lumpur.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.premierleagueheroes.com/tony-cottee/|title=Tony Cottee {{!}} Tony Cottee now {{!}} What is Tony Cottee doing now|date=16 June 2015 |language=en-GB|access-date=10 August 2016}}</ref>

===Film career===
Cottee made a [[cameo appearance]] in the 2018 action film, ''[[Final Score (2018 film)|Final Score]]'' in which he was murdered on live television.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.joe.co.uk/film/final-score-dave-bautista-198539|title=Final Score is incredibly stupid, but also kind of wonderful|website=JOE.co.uk|date=7 September 2018 }}</ref>

==Career statistics==
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center
|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.enfa.co.uk/playersearch.php |title=Player search: Cottee, AR (Tony) |website=English National Football Archive (ENFA) |access-date=4 April 2024 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
|-
!rowspan=2|Club
!rowspan=2|Season
!colspan=3|League
!colspan=2|National cup{{efn|Includes [[FA Cup]], [[Malaysia FA Cup]]}}
!colspan=2|League cup
!colspan=2|Continental
!colspan=2|Other
!colspan=2|Total
|-
!Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals
|-
|rowspan="7"|[[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United]]
|[[1982–83 West Ham United F.C. season|1982–83]]
|[[Football League First Division|First Division]]
|8||5||1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||9||5
|-
|[[1983–84 West Ham United F.C. season|1983–84]]
|First Division
|39||15||4||0||4||4||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||47||19
|-
|[[1984–85 West Ham United F.C. season|1984–85]]
|First Division
|41||17||5||4||4||3||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||50||24
|-
|[[1985–86 West Ham United F.C. season|1985–86]]
|First Division
|42||20||7||4||3||2||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||52||26
|-
|[[1986–87 West Ham United F.C. season|1986–87]]
|First Division
|42||22||5||1||6||5||colspan="2"|–||1{{efn|name=FMC|Appearance(s) in [[Full Members' Cup]]}}||1||54||29
|-
|[[1987–88 West Ham United F.C. season|1987–88]]
|First Division
|40||13||2||2||2||0||colspan="2"|—||0||0||44||15
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!212||92||24||11||19||14||colspan="2"|—||1||1||256||118
|-
|rowspan="8"|[[Everton F.C.|Everton]]
|[[1988–89 Everton F.C. season|1988–89]]
|First Division
|36||13||8||0||5||2||colspan="2"|—||5{{efn|Four appearances and three goals in Full Members' Cup, one appearance in [[Football League Centenary Trophy]]}}||3||54||18
|-
|[[1989–90 Everton F.C. season|1989–90]]
|First Division
|27||13||5||2||3||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||35||15
|-
|[[1990–91 Everton F.C. season|1990–91]]
|First Division
|29||10||4||2||3||4||colspan="2"|—||6{{efn|name=FMC}}||8||42||24
|-
|[[1991–92 Everton F.C. season|1991–92]]
|First Division
|24||8||2||0||4||1||colspan="2"|—||2{{efn|name=FMC}}||1||32||10
|-
|[[1992–93 Everton F.C. season|1992–93]]
|[[Premier League]]
|26||12||0||0||3||1||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||29||13
|-
|[[1993–94 Everton F.C. season|1993–94]]
|Premier League
|39||16||2||0||5||3||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||46||19
|-
|[[1994–95 Everton F.C. season|1994–95]]
|Premier League
|3||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||3||0
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!184||72||21||4||23||11||colspan="2"|—||13||12||241||99
|-
|rowspan="4"|West Ham United
|[[1994–95 West Ham United F.C. season|1994–95]]
|Premier League
|31||13||2||1||3||1||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||36||15
|-
|[[1995–96 West Ham United F.C. season|1995–96]]
|Premier League
|33||10||3||0||3||2||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||39||12
|-
|[[1996–97 West Ham United F.C. season|1996–97]]
|Premier League
|3||0||colspan="2"|—||2||1||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||5||1
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!67||23||5||1||8||4||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||80||28
|-
|[[Selangor FA|Selangor]]{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}
|1996–97
|[[Liga Perdana (1994–1997)|Liga Perdana]]
|24||14||7||3||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||31||17
|-
|rowspan="5"|[[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]]
|[[1997–98 Leicester City F.C. season|1997–98]]
|Premier League
|19||4||2||1||1||0||1{{efn|Appearance in [[UEFA Cup]]}}||0||colspan="2"|—||23||5
|-
|[[1998–99 Leicester City F.C. season|1998–99]]
|Premier League
|31||10||1||1||5||5||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||37||16
|-
|[[1999–2000 Leicester City F.C. season|1999–2000]]
|Premier League
|33||13||2||0||3||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||38||13
|-
|[[2000–01 Leicester City F.C. season|2000–01]]
|Premier League
|2||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||2||0
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!85||27||5||2||9||5||1||0||colspan="2"|—||100||34
|-
|[[Birmingham City F.C.|Birmingham City]] (loan)
|[[1997–98 Birmingham City F.C. season|1997–98]]
|First Division
|5||1||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||5||1
|-
|[[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]]
|[[2000–01 Norwich City F.C. season|2000–01]]
|First Division
|7||1||colspan="2"|—||2||1||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||9||2
|-
|[[Barnet F.C.|Barnet]]
|[[2000–01 Football League|2000–01]]
|[[Football League Third Division|Third Division]]
|16||9||2||1||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||0||0||18||10
|-
|[[Millwall F.C.|Millwall]]
|[[2000–01 Millwall F.C. season|2000–01]]
|[[Football League Second Division|Second Division]]
|2||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||2||0
|-
!colspan="3"|Career total
!602||239||64||22||61||35||1||0||14||13||742||309
|}
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==Honours==
'''Everton'''
*[[FA Cup]] runner-up: [[1988–89 FA Cup|1988–89]]
*[[Full Members Cup]] runner-up: [[1990–91 Full Members' Cup|1990–91]]

'''Selangor'''
*[[Malaysia FA Cup]]: 1997

'''Leicester City'''
*[[Football League Cup]]: [[1999–2000 Football League Cup|1999–2000]];<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/658945.stm |title=Leicester triumph at Wembley |website=BBC Sport |date=27 February 2000 |access-date=29 March 2024}}</ref> runner-up: [[1998–99 Football League Cup|1998–99]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/300408.stm |title=Nielsen nicks it for Spurs |website=BBC Sport |date=22 March 1999 |access-date=30 March 2024}}</ref>

'''England'''
*[[Rous Cup]]: [[1989 Rous Cup|1989]]

'''Individual'''
*[[PFA Young Player of the Year#Winners|PFA Young Player of the Year]]: [[1985–86 in English football|1985–86]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Soccerbase}}
*[http://www.ex-canaries.co.uk/players/cottee.htm Career information at ex-canaries.co.uk]
*{{England Football Online}}

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