Joseph Kevin Keegan Biography

Birh of Joseph Kevin Keegan

Keegan makes his Liverpool debut against Nottingham Forest at Anfield and scores after just 12 minutes

Scores twice as Liverpool beat Newcastle United 3-0 in the FA Cup final.

FWA Footballer of the Year

Keegan is instrumental in Liverpool's charge towards a double of League championship and European Cup

Keegan is instrumental in Liverpool's charge towards a double of League championship and European Cup

Leaves Liverpool after helping the club win the European Cup, joining Hamburg SV.

Named European Footballer of the Year, 1st time

Hamburger SV win the Bundesliga title for the first time in its history in the 1978-79 season, with Keegans unflinching commitment proving decisive

Named European Footballer of the Year, 2nd time

Captains England in the 1980 European Championships in Italy

Lawrie McMenemy calls a press conference at the Potters Heron hotel, Ampfield to announce that the European Footballer of the Year Kevin Keegan will be joining Southampton F.C. in the forthcoming summer

Awarded the OBE for services to Association Football

Keegan is voted the PFA Player of the Year

A few days before the start of the 1982-83 season Keegan signs for Second Division Newcastle United for a fee of œ100,000

Keegan announces his retirement prior to the end of the 1984 season

After eight years of retirement and golf in Spain, Keegan returns to the game as manager of Newcastle United

Beardsley re-joins Newcastle for pounds 1.4 million, where his old team-mate and strike partner Kevin Keegan is manager

Kevin Keegan is appointed as chief operating officer at Second Division club Fulham & Ray Wilkins as manager

Resigns as manager of Newcastle

Wilkins was sacked as manager & Keegan takes over his coaching role

Wins the Second Division in a record-breaking season

Keegan is named the new England coach

Comes under fire for tactical naivety, comes to a head during the unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign, as England beat Germany, but lost 3-2 to both Romania and Portugal

Keegan resigned as England coach after England lost to a Dietmar Hamann goal for Germany in their first World Cup qualifier in the last game to be played at Wembley Stadium before its demolition and reconstruction.

Appointed manager of first division Manchester City

Made an Inaugural Inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 in recognition of his impact on the English game as both a player and manager

Keegan quits as manager and decides to retire from football

Voted in at No.8 in the Liverpool F.C. poll of over 110,000 Liverpool fans, 100 Players Who Shook The Kop