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{{Short description|English footballer and manager}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2017}}
{{Infobox football biography
| image =
| name = Geoff Butler
| fullname = Geoffrey Butler
| height =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1946|9|26}}
| birth_place = [[Middlesbrough]], England
| position = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]]
| youthyears1 =
| youthclubs1 =
| years1 = 1965–1967
| years2 = 1967
| years3 = 1967–1969
| years4 = 1969–1976
| years5 = 1974–1975
| years6 = 1975–1981
| years7 = 1981–1982
| clubs1 = [[Middlesbrough F.C.|Middlesbrough]]
| clubs2 = [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]
| clubs3 = [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]]
| clubs4 = [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]]
| clubs5 = → [[Baltimore Comets]] (loan)
| clubs6 = [[AFC Bournemouth]]
| clubs7 = [[Peterborough United F.C.|Peterborough United]]
| caps1 = 55
| caps2 = 9
| caps3 = 3
| caps4 = 153
| caps5 = 40
| caps6 = 119
| caps7 = 39
| goals1 = 1
| goals2 = 0
| goals3 = 0
| goals4 = 1
| goals5 = 2
| goals6 = 1
| goals7 = 0
| totalcaps = 418
| totalgoals = 5
| manageryears1 = 1983–2000
| manageryears2 = 2002–2003
| managerclubs1 = [[Salisbury City F.C.|Salisbury City]]
| managerclubs2 = [[Weymouth FC|Weymouth]]
}}

'''Geoffrey Butler''' (born 26 September 1946) is a former professional [[association football|footballer]] who played as a [[defender (association football)|defender]] in [[The Football League]] between the 1960s and 1980s.<ref name=fl>{{NeilBrownPlayers|player/geoffbutler}}</ref>

He started out with his hometown club [[Middlesbrough F.C.|Middlesbrough]] and made 55 league appearances for them before a transfer to [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] in September 1967.<ref name=sheroes>[http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football-heroes/displayhero_club.asp?HeroID=38746 Geoffrey Butler League Stats and 1973 photo at football-heroes]. Sporting Heroes Photographic Encyclopedia. Retrieved on: 23 November 2010.</ref> He only made a total of nine appearances for Chelsea.<ref>[http://theblues.chelseafc.com/cgi-bin/playersearch.pl?Geoff%20BUTLER Chelsea Player Database]</ref> He later played for [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]] and [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]],<ref name=fl/> and whilst at Norwich he played for the [[Baltimore Comets]] of the [[North American Soccer League (1968-1984)|North American Soccer League]] in the 1974 and 1975 NASL summer seasons, making a total of 40 appearances.<ref>[http://www.nasljerseys.com/Players/B/Butler.Geoff.htm NASL stats at nasljerseys.com]</ref> He also played for [[AFC Bournemouth]].<ref name=sheroes/> While at Norwich, he was a member of the team that reached the final of the [[Football League Cup|League Cup]] in [[1973 Football League Cup Final|1973]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.soccerbase.com/results3.sd?gameid=259796 |title=1973 Football League Cup Final line-ups at soccerbase |access-date=23 November 2010 |archive-date=27 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071127150500/http://www.soccerbase.com/results3.sd?gameid=259796 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1983, Butler was appointed as player/manager of [[Salisbury City F.C.|Salisbury]] in the [[Southern Football League|Southern League]], later also becoming commercial manager.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The official centenary history of the Southern League |publisher=Paper Plane Publishing Ltd |year=1993 |isbn=1871872081 |pages=146}}</ref>

In 1992, it was revealed that [[South Africa national football team|South Africa national team]] manager [[Jeff Butler (football manager)|Jeff Butler]] had been sacked from his post for passing off Geoffrey Butler's playing career as his own.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hawkey |first1=Ian |title=Feet of the Chameleon : the Story of African Football. |date=2009 |publisher=Pavilion Books Company Limited |location=London |isbn=9781909396067 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IKa_CAAAQBAJ&q=Jeff+Butler+south+africa+norwich&pg=PT49 |accessdate=12 April 2020}}</ref>

==Honours==
'''Norwich City'''
* [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]] Championship [[1971-72 in English football|1971-72]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* {{cite book|title=Canary Citizens|author=Mike Davage, John Eastwood, Kevin Platt|publisher=Jarrold Publishing|year=2001|isbn=0-7117-2020-7}}

{{1974 NASL All-Stars}}
{{Weymouth F.C. managers}}

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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1946 births]]
[[Category:Footballers from Middlesbrough]]
[[Category:Men's association football defenders]]
[[Category:AFC Bournemouth players]]
[[Category:Chelsea F.C. players]]
[[Category:Middlesbrough F.C. players]]
[[Category:North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players]]
[[Category:Baltimore Comets players]]
[[Category:Norwich City F.C. players]]
[[Category:Peterborough United F.C. players]]
[[Category:Salisbury City F.C. managers]]
[[Category:Sunderland A.F.C. players]]
[[Category:Weymouth F.C. managers]]
[[Category:English men's footballers]]
[[Category:English expatriate sportspeople in the United States]]
[[Category:Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States]]
[[Category:English expatriate men's footballers]]
[[Category:English football managers]]
[[Category:English Football League players]]

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Geoff Butler - Revision history

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