Andy York

{{short description|English footballer}}

{{for|the English musician|Andy Yorke}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Andy York

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1894|6|14|df=y}}1939 England and Wales Register

| birth_place = Blyth, England

| death_date = 1977 (aged 83)England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007

| death_place = Northumberland, England

| height = {{height|ft=5|in=10+1/2}}{{cite news |title=The lure of promotion. Coventry City |newspaper=Athletic News |location=Manchester |date=13 August 1923 |page=6}}

| position = Left back

| youthyears1 = – | youthclubs1 =

| years1 = – | clubs1 = Sleekburn Albion | caps1 = | goals1 =

| years2 = – | clubs2 = Bedlington United | caps2 = | goals2 =

| years3 = – | clubs3 = Blyth Spartans | caps3 = | goals3 =

| years4 = 1921 | clubs4 = Sunderland | caps4 = 1 | goals4 = 0

| years5 = – | clubs5 = Coventry City | caps5 = 16 | goals5 = 0

| years6 = – | clubs6 = Northampton Town | caps6 = 24 | goals6 = 0

| years7 = 1927–1930 | clubs7 = Lincoln City | caps7 = 106 | goals7 = 6

| years8 = – | clubs8 = Newark Town | caps8 = | goals8 =

| years9 = – | clubs9 = Scarborough | caps9 = | goals9 =

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Andrew York{{#tag:ref|His surname is spelt "York" in birth and death records, as well as the Lincoln City FC Archive{{cite web |url=http://www.redimps.com/archive3/index.mv?cat=players&drop=playerdetsdrop&play=york01 |title=Andrew York |work=The Lincoln City FC Archive |publisher=Lincoln City F.C |accessdate=19 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924085745/http://www.redimps.com/archive3/index.mv?cat=players&drop=playerdetsdrop&play=york01 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead }} and the English National Football Archive,{{cite web |url=http://www.enfa.co.uk/ |title=Player search |work=English National Football Archive |accessdate=30 September 2013 |url-access=registration }} but Joyce's Football League Players' Records{{cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=SoccerData |location=Nottingham |page=290 |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-899468-67-6}} and the Sunderland-related source The Stat Cat{{cite web |url=http://www.thestatcat.co.uk/Match.aspx?MatchID=3598&LU=S&LUID=43 |title=1921-22: Football League Division 1 – Match 9 |work=The Stat Cat |accessdate=19 April 2013}} both misspell it Yorke.|group=lower-alpha}} (14 June 1894 – 1977) was an English professional footballer who made 147 appearances in the Football League playing for Sunderland, Coventry City, Northampton Town and Lincoln City. He played as a left back.

York was born in Blyth, Northumberland. He began his career in local football in his native north-east of England before signing for Sunderland, for whom he played just once in the First Division before moving south to play for Coventry City in the Second Division and for Third Division clubs Northampton Town and Lincoln City. Already well into his thirties when he signed for Lincoln, he found himself playing regular first-team football for the first time in his career – he missed only four matches in his first two seasons – and helped them reach runners-up spot in 1927–28. He made 114 appearances in all competitions for Lincoln before finishing his career in non-league football with Newark Town and Scarborough. He died in 1977.