Jack Ponsonby

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Jack Ponsonby

| image =

| fullname = John Ponsonby[https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=people&dl_cat=statutory&dl_rec=statutory-births&surname=Ponsonby&surname_so=exact&forename_so=starts&sex=M&from_year=1874&to_year=1877&record_type=stat_births Statutory registers - Births - Search results], ScotlandsPeople

| birth_date = 1874

| birth_place = Dumbarton, Scotland

| death_date = {{death year and age|1962|1874}}

| death_place = Belfast, Northern Ireland[http://nifootball.blogspot.com/2007/10/jack-ponsonby.html Jack Ponsonby], Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats, 24 October 2007

| position = {{ublist|Defender|Half-back}}

| years1 = 1893–1897 | clubs1 = Distillery| caps1= | goals1 =

| years2 = 1897–1898 | clubs2 = Stoke | caps2=5 | goals2 = 0

| years3 = 1898–1903 | clubs3 = Distillery | caps3= | goals3 =

| nationalyears1 = 1895–1900

| nationalteam1 = Irish League XI

| nationalcaps1 = 7

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| nationalyears2 = 1895–1899

| nationalteam2 = Ireland

| nationalcaps2 = 9

| nationalgoals2 = 0

}}

John Ponsonby (1874 – 1962) was a footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke.{{cite book|last=Matthews|first=Tony|title=The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City|year=1994|publisher=Lion Press|isbn=0-9524151-0-0}}

Career

Ponsonby was born in Dumbarton, Scotland to Irish parents[https://www.scotsfootballworldwide.scot/shamrock-on-blue Shamrock on Blue], Scots Football Worldwide and moved over to Belfast where he played for Distillery. He joined Stoke in 1897 and played five matches during the 1897–98 season before returning to Distillery. He won the Irish League four times (1895–96, 1898–99, 1900–01, 1902–03) across his two spells, and lifted the Irish Cup in 1896.

Career statistics

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rowspan="2"\|Club !rowspan="2"\|Season !colspan="3"\|League !colspan="2"\|FA Cup !colspan="2"\|Total
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Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Stoke \|1897–98 \|First Division \|5	0	0	0	5	0
colspan="3"\|Career Total !5	0	0	0	5	0