Duncan Edwards	Manchester United FC 18 appearances, 5 goals P 18 W 10 D 5 L 3 F 50: A 21 69% successful 1954-57 captain: none minutes played: 1620
Timeline
	Duncan Edwards
Birth	1 October 1936 at 23 Malvern Crescent, Holly Hall, Dudley, Worcestershire [registered in Dudley, December 1936]. To Gladstone and Sarah (née Harrison) Edwards. Attended Priory Road Junior School and Wolverhampton Road Secondary Modern, Dudley
Partner	Duncan had announced his engagement to his girlfriend, Molly Leach, days before the tragedy.
Death	21 February 1958 in the Klinikum rechts der Isarl, München, aged 21 years 143 days [not registered in England & Wales]. Edwards succumbed to the injuries that he had sustained in the plane crash fifteen days earlier. One of 23 fatalities of the Munich Air Disaster, one of four England players.
Funeral	on 26 February at St Francis' Church and buried in Holly Hall Cemetery, Dudley, with his sister, Carol Anne, who had died in 1947, aged 14 weeks.
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990], Patrick Talbot's White Shirt, Black Country [2004] &
Biographies	x
	x. - A Football Compendium, Peter J. Seddon (1999).
Club Career
Club(s)	Played school football with Wolverhampton Street Secondary School, where his skills and talent were harnessed and was soon playing regularly football with Dudley Schoolboys and Worcester County XI.  Despite interest from several clubs, Duncan always wanted to play for Manchester United FC, and on 31 May 1952, that wish became a reality when Jimmy Murphy and Bert Whalley secured Edward's signature as an amateur, at his Dudley home. He eventually signed his professional contract on 1 October 1953. 23145376 Lance Corporal Edwards D also served in the Army for two years doing National Service. Serving mostly at the Ammunitions Depot at Nescliff.
Club honours	Football League Champions 1955-56, 1956-57; FA Cup runners-up 1956-57;
Individual honours	Football League (four appearances); FWA Footballer of the Year runner-up 1956-57; Ballon d'Or =third place 1957, =thirteenth 1956;
Distinctions	Became the youngest Manchester United FC player in the Football League when he played against Cardiff City, 4 April 1953, aged 16 years 185 days. Also became the first International player to appear in the FA Youth Cup Final in April 1955. One of only handful of players who have a street named after him.  Duncan Edwards Close is in Dudley, DY1, opposite Dudley Cemetery.  Also a Duncan Edwards Court in the Newton Heath area of Manchester, M40.
Height/Weight	5' 11", 13st. 0lbs [1957].
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & Patrick Talbot's White Shirt, Black Country [2004]
England Career
Player number	One of three who became 743rd players (745) to appear for England.
Position(s)	Left-half
First match	No. 294, 2 April 1955, England 7 Scotland 2, a British Championship match at The Empire Stadium, Wembley, London, aged 18 years 183 days.
Last match	No. 317, 27 November 1957, England 4 France 0, a friendly match at The Empire Stadium, Wembley, London, aged 21 years 57 days.
Major tournaments	World Cup Finals 1954 (provisional squad); British Championship 1954-55, 1955-56, 1956-57, 1957-58;
Team honours	British Championship winners 1954-55, 1956-57, shared 1955-56, 1957-58;
Individual honours	England B (six appearances, five goals, 1954-57) England U23 (four appearances, three goals, 1954-56) England Youth, England Schoolboy (1950-53, nine appearances)
Distinctions	Cousin of Ray Westwood (Bolton Wanderers and England), second cousin of Dennis Stevens (Bolton Wanderers FC, Everton FC and England reserve). England's youngest under 23 internationalist, aged 17 years 111 days. England's youngest B internationalist, aged 17 years 174 days. The eleventh Worcestershirian to represent England. The youngest England player to die when he died four days after Jimmy Stewart and fifteen days after the Munich Air Disaster which killed Tommy Taylor, Roger Bryne, David Pegg and Frank Swift. Eighteen days after Joe Cottle.
On 6th February 1958 the airliner carrying players and backroom staff of Manchester United, plus a number of journalists and supporters, crashed in a blizzard on its third attempt to take off from Munich airport. United were returning from Belgrade where they had just beaten Red Star Belgrade in the European Cup and had stopped off at Munich for re-fuelling. Twenty-three of the forty-four passengers on board the aircraft lost their lives. - Munich Remembered and Never Forgotten - Munich58.co.uk

The Numbers
parties	Apps	comp. apps	minutes		goals ave. min	comp. goals		captain
21+	18	9	1620	5	324 min	2	four	none
minutes are an approximation, due to the fact that many matches rarely stick to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time for injuries and errors.

Venue Record

Shirt Record

Competition Record

Tournament Record

World Cup Preliminary Competition
Type	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	FTS	CS	FAv	AAv	Pts%	W/L
WCP 1956-58	3	2	1	0	10	3	+7	0	0	3.333	1.00	83.3	+2
WCP All	3	2	1	0	10	3	+7	0	0	3.333	1.00	83.3	+2

British Championship Competition
Type	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	FTS	CS	FAv	AAv	Pts%	W/L
BC 1954-55	1	1	0	0	7	2	+5	0	0	7.00	2.00	100.0	+1
BC 1955-56	1	0	1	0	1	1	=0	0	0	1.00	1.00	50.0	=0
BC 1956-57	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1	0	0	1.50	1.00	75.0	+1
BC 1957-58	2	1	0	1	6	3	+3	0	1	3.00	1.50	50.0	=0
BC All	6	3	2	1	17	8	+9	0	1	2.833	1.333	66.7	+2

All Competition
Type	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	FTS	CS	FAv	AAv	Pts%	W/L
WC	3	2	1	0	10	3	+7	0	0	3.333	1.00	83.3	+2
BC	6	3	2	1	17	8	+9	0	1	2.833	1.333	66.7	+2

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Match History  
 

Age 17 under 23   one appearance - Italy January 1954 B   one appearance - West Germany March 1954.

 

Club: Manchester United F.C. - eighteen full appearances (1620 min) 5ᵍ

manager: Walter Winterbottom - eighteen full appearances (1620 min) 5ᵍx

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286

16 May 1954 - Yugoslavia 1 England 0, Stadion JNA, Beograd

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AL

replacement party member

B
unused substitute - Yugoslavia 16 May 1954

287

23 May 1954 - Hungary 7 England 1, Népstadion, Budapest

AL

party member

B
one appearance - Switzerland 23 May 1954

May 1st 1954 was the date set by FIFA for a list of forty names to be submitted, from which the final 22 could be selected for each country's World Cup squad. England's list appeared on April 22 1954, nine days ahead of the deadline. 18 were destined not to make the final cut including Duncan Edwards.

 

Age 18 under 23   two appearances - Italy January 1955, Scotland February 1955 B   postponed appearance - Scotland March 1955; one appearance - West Germany March 1955

 

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294

2 April 1955 - England 7 Scotland 2 Empire Stadium, Wembley

BC

HW

6

one of three who became the 743rd player (745) to appear for England.

the seventeenth Manchester United player to represent England

Edwards is the youngest England player in the twentieth century

2	295	15 May 1955 - France 1 England 0 Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Paris	tour	AL		6
3	296	18 May 1955 - Spain 1 England 1 Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid		AD	38	6
4	297	22 May 1955 - Portugal 3 England 1 Estádio do FC Porto, Oporto		AL		6

Age 19
301	30 November 1955 - England 4 Spain 1, Empire Stadium, Wembley	Fr	HW	unused sub

under 23   one appearance - Scotland February 1956 B   one appearance - Switzerland March 1956

 

5	302	14 April 1956 - Scotland 1 England 1 Hampden Park, Glasgow	BC	AD		6
6	303	9 May 1956 - England 4 Brazil 2 Empire Stadium, Wembley	Fr	HW		6
7	304	16 May 1956 - Sweden 0 England 0 Rasunda Fotbollstadion, Solna	tour	AD		6
8	305	20 May 1956 - Finland 1 England 5 Olympiastadion, Helsinki		AW	20 22	6
9	306	26 May 1956 - West Germany 1 England 3 Olympiastadion, Berlin		AW	26 5yd strike	6

Age 20
10	307	6 October 1956 - Northern Ireland 1 England 1 Windsor Park, Belfast	BC	AD		6
308		14 November 1956 - England 3 Wales 1, Empire Stadium, Wembley	BC	HW	withdrew injured
309		28 November 1956 - England 3 Yugoslavia 0, Empire Stadium, Wembley	Fr	HW	unused sub
11	310	5 December 1956 - England 5 Denmark 2 Molineux, Wolverhampton	WCP	HW	75 20yd 77 20yd	10
12	311	6 April 1957 - England 2 Scotland 1 Empire Stadium, Wembley	BC	HW	83 18yd	6
13	312	8 May 1957 - England 5 Republic of Ireland 1 Empire Stadium, Wembley	WCP	HW		6
14	313	15 May 1957 - Denmark 1 England 4 Idrætsparken, København		AW	28	6
15	314	19 May 1957 - Republic of Ireland 1 England 1 Dalymount Park, Dublin		AD		6

B
two appearances -  Romania & Czechoslovakia May 1957

Age 21
16	315	19 October 1957 - Wales 0 England 4 Ninian Park, Cardiff	BC	AW		6
17	316	6 November 1957 - England 2 Northern Ireland 3 Empire Stadium, Wembley	BC	HL	80 18yd	6
18	317	27 November 1957 - England 4 France 0 Empire Stadium, Wembley	Fr	HW		6

On 21st February 1958 Duncan Edwards tragically lost his life.

because of the Munich Air Disaster