Keith Spurgeon


Keith Spurgeon was an English football player and manager.

Playing career

Spurgeon played for Tottenham Hotspur, Margate, Leytonstone, Folkestone Town, Herne Bay and Snowdown Colliery Welfare. In October 1960 he was hired as a coach by Clapton, where he also had been used as a player to cover for injuries, on at least one occasion.

Coaching career

Spurgeon was manager of Dutch clubs Ajax from 1961 to 1962, Heracles Almelo from 1963 to 1964, Blauw-Wit Amsterdam and AGOVV and he later coached the Libyan national side, the Dallas Tornado of the North American Soccer League, Belgian side K.V. Mechelen Swedish side AIK, Cypriot side APOEL, and Landskrona, also of Sweden.

Later life and death

He died in Sweden in 1990 from motor neurone disease.