Billy Wright

Billy Wright is football history, plain and simple. The first player in the world to reach 100 international caps, captaining England and spending his entire club career at Wolverhampton Wanderers, he embodies a loyalty almost extinct in the modern game. What strikes me is the 70 consecutive competitive internationals, a record that stood for decades. The CBE and that little hometown of Ironbridge round out a portrait of a true one-club gentleman. Whenever I think about what football used to value, devotion over money, durability over hype, Wright is the name that comes to mind first.

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Name (English)

Billy Wright

Name (Japanese)

ビリー・ライト

Reading

びりー・らいと

Born

February 6, 1924 – September 3, 1994

Origin

Ironbridge, United Kingdom

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

Awards & achievements

• Commander of the Order of the British Empire

• Official sitehttp://sirbillywright.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Wright%20(footballer%2C%20born%201924)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223234

Tags

• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.