Steve Penney (footballer)

{{Short description|Northern Irish footballer}}

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{{Use British English|date=December 2017}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Steve Penney

| fullname = Steven Alexander Penney{{Hugman|15591|accessdate=17 April 2020}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1964|1|6}}

| birth_place = Ballymena, Northern Ireland

| height = {{height|ft=5|in=9}}{{cite book |title=Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88 |editor-first=Peter |editor-last=Dunk |publisher=Queen Anne Press |location=London |date=1987 |page=[https://archive.org/details/rothmansfootball00lond/page/n87 86] |isbn=978-0-356-14354-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/rothmansfootball00lond|url-access=registration }}

| position = Winger

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Linfield

| years1 = 1981–1983

| years2 = 1983–1991

| years3 = 1991–1992

| years4 = 1992–1994

| clubs1 = Ballymena United

| clubs2 = Brighton & Hove Albion

| clubs3 = Heart of Midlothian

| clubs4 = Burnley

| caps1 = | goals1 =

| caps2 = 138 |goals2 = 14

| caps3 = 9 |goals3 = 0

| caps4 = 11 |goals4 = 3

| nationalyears1 = 1984–1988

| nationalteam1 = Northern Ireland

| nationalcaps1 = 17 | nationalgoals1 = 2

}}

Steven Alexander Penney (born 6 January 1964) is a Northern Ireland former international footballer who played as a right winger.

Penney started his career with hometown Ballymena United, before moving to England with Brighton & Hove Albion in 1983. Penney spent 8 seasons playing for Brighton in the second and third tier of English football before a single season cameo with Heart of Midlothian in 1991–92. After a similarly short spell with Burnley, a serious knee injury forced him into early retirement.

He was capped 17 times by Northern Ireland, earning selection for the 1986 World Cup squad in Mexico.