Kingsley Whiffen

{{short description|Welsh footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Kingsley Whiffen

| fullname = Stuart Kingsley Gears Whiffen

| birth_date = 3 December 1950

| birth_place = Welshpool, Wales

| death_date ={{death date and age|2006|12|15|1950|12|3|df=y}}

| death_place =Dorchester, England

| position = Goalkeeper

|youthyears1=1954–1966

|youthclubs1=Llanfair Caereinion

| years1 = 1966–1967

| clubs1 = Chelsea

| caps1 = 1

| goals1 = 0

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| clubs2 = Plymouth Argyle

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| clubs3 = Bangor City

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|nationalteam1 = Wales Schoolboys

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Stuart Kingsley Gears Whiffen (3 December 1950 – 15 December 2006) was a Welsh amateur footballer who made one appearance in the Football League for Chelsea as a goalkeeper.{{Hugman|id=20886|accessdate=4 January 2016}} He was aged 16 years and 157 days on his only Chelsea appearance, making him the club's second youngest player of all time after his teammate Ian Hamilton, who was 16 years and 138 days on his debut earlier that year.{{Cite web |title=Miscellaneous facts – players |url=http://www.chelseafc.com/the-club/history/style/statistics/miscellaneous-facts-players.html |access-date=9 December 2016}} Whiffen won caps for Wales at schoolboy level.{{Cite web |title=Llanfair United |url=http://www.huwsgrayalliance.co.uk/index.php/llanfair-united |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827075041/http://www.huwsgrayalliance.co.uk/index.php/llanfair-united |archive-date=27 August 2016 |access-date=4 January 2016 |website=www.huwsgrayalliance.co.uk}}{{Cite web |title=Forgotten Glories – British Amateur Internationals 1901–1974 |url=http://www.scottish-football-historical-archive.co.uk/Forgotten%20Glories.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728161609/http://www.scottish-football-historical-archive.co.uk/Forgotten%20Glories.pdf |archive-date=28 July 2017 |access-date=16 July 2017}}

Whiffen's only Chelsea game was a 3-2 defeat at Leicester City on 9 May 1967.{{cite web |title=Leicester City v Chelsea, 09 May 1967 |url=https://www.11v11.com/matches/leicester-city-v-chelsea-09-may-1967-79306/ |website=11v11}} He replaced Peter Bonetti in the starting lineup, as Chelsea rested a number of players ahead of the FA Cup Final on 20 May.