Martin Hicks

{{Short description|English footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}

{{BLP sources|date=May 2007}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Martin Hicks

| image =

| fullname =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|2|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Stratford-on-Avon, England

| height = {{height|ft=6|in=3}}{{Cite book |last=Rollin |first=Jack |title=Rothmans Football Yearbook: 1981–82 |publisher=Queen Anne Press |year=1981 |isbn=0-362-02046-9 |location=London |pages=296 |oclc=868301130}}

| position = Defender

| years1 = 19??–1977 | clubs1 = Stratford Town

| years2 = 1977–1978 | clubs2 = Charlton Athletic | caps2 = 0 | goals2 = 0

| years3 = 1978–1991 | clubs3 = Reading | caps3 = 500 | goals3 = 23

| years4 = 1991–1993 | clubs4 = Birmingham City | caps4 = 60 | goals4 = 1

| years5 = 1993–1995 | clubs5 = Newbury Town

| manageryears1 = 1993–1995 | managerclubs1 = Newbury Town (player-manager)

}}

Martin Hicks (born 27 February 1957) is a former footballer who played in the Football League as a

defender for Reading and Birmingham City. He made 500 League appearances for Reading.{{cite web |title=Martin Hicks |url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player7/martinhicks.html |work=Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database |publisher=Neil Brown |access-date=25 July 2015}}

Hicks holds the record for the highest number of first team appearances by a Reading player, making a total of 603 first team appearances.

In a 2005 fans' vote to compile Reading's best-ever eleven, Hicks was voted on the team as one of the centre backs.{{cite web|url=http://www.readingfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10306~702820,00.html|title=Revealed – The Royals' best-ever XI as voted for by fans on this site|date=23 August 2005|publisher=Reading F.C.|access-date=18 July 2012}}

Between March and August 1979, Hicks was one of the Reading back five that kept a clean sheet for 1,103 minutes – a record that stood until broken by Manchester United.The Little Book of Reading FC, Alan Sedunary

After leaving Reading he joined Birmingham City, and was their Player of the Year for 1992.{{cite web |url=http://www.bcfc-archive.freeserve.co.uk/poty.htm |title=Player of the Year |website=The Birmingham City FC Archive |date=13 December 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041228133811/http://www.bcfc-archive.freeserve.co.uk/poty.htm |archive-date=28 December 2004 |access-date=29 October 2019 |url-status=dead }}