Billy Beer (footballer)

{{short description|English footballer and manager}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Billy Beer

| image = Sheffield United FC 1901 team.jpg

| image_size = 240px

| caption = Sheffield United's 1901 Cup Final team: Beer is seated third from the left.

| fullname = William John Beer

| birth_date = {{birth date|1879|1|4|df=y}}

| birth_place = Skinningrove, Yorkshire, England

| death_date = {{death-date and age|21 June 1958|January 1879}}

| height =

| position = Wing half

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Staveley Town

| youthyears2 =

| youthclubs2 = Sheffield United

| youthyears3 = –

| youthclubs3 = Chesterfield Town

| years1 = 1898–1902

| clubs1 = Sheffield United

| caps1 = 73

| goals1 = 18

| years2 = 1902–1910

| clubs2 = Small Heath / Birmingham{{efn|Small Heath was renamed Birmingham ahead of the 1905–06 season.{{cite web |url=https://fchd.info/SMALLHEA.HTM |title=Small Heath |website=Football Club History Database |publisher=Richard Rundle |accessdate=10 April 2020}}}}

| caps2 = 236

| goals2 = 34

| manageryears1 = 1923–1927

| managerclubs1 = Birmingham

}}

William John Beer (4 January 1879 in Skinningrove, Yorkshire – 21 June 1958 in NottinghamObituary in Nottingham Guardian, 23 June 1958, page 7, column 3.) was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half for Sheffield United and Small Heath (renamed Birmingham in 1905).