Trevor Francis

Trevor Francis occupies a permanent footnote in football economics, and I mean that as the highest compliment. Becoming Britain's first one-million-pound player in 1979 made him a symbol of an entire era of inflation in the transfer market, but he was no mere price tag, he headed the winning goal in that year's European Cup final against Malmo. A Plymouth-born forward who played in England, the United States, Italy, Scotland and Australia, he earned his English Football Hall of Fame place honestly. His passing in 2023 closed a remarkable chapter. To me he remains the name you reach for first whenever the history of the transfer market is told.

Name (English)

Trevor Francis

Name (Japanese)

トレヴァー・フランシス

Reading

とれゔぁー・ふらんしす

Born

April 19, 1954 – July 24, 2023

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

Origin

Plymouth, United Kingdom

Height

178 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Awards & achievements

• English Football Hall of Fame

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9

Tags

• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

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.