Alan Edward Davidson

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Alan Davidson
Personal information
Full name	Alan Edward Davidson
Date of birth	June 1, 1960 (1960-06-01) (age 48)
Place of birth	Altona North, Melbourne, Australia
Playing position	midfielder/defender
Club information
Current club	retired
Youth clubs
	Altona City SC
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1976-1977 1978-1984 1984-1985 1986 1987-1992 1994-1995 1992-1996 1996 1997-1998	Altona City SC South Melbourne Nottingham Forest South Melbourne Melbourne Croatia South Melbourne Pahang FA Collingwood Warriors Melbourne Knights	036 0(?) 142 (10) 013 0(0) 013 0(3) 133 0(8) 015 0(0) 168 0(0) 010 0(0) 013 0(0)
National team2
1980-1991	Australia	79 (2)
Teams managed
2000	Whittlesea Zebras
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 August 2007. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 20 August 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Alan Edward Davidson (born in Melbourne, Victoria) was an Australian football (soccer) player.

He was a defender and won 79 international caps (54 in official FIFA matches) between 1980 and 1991 with the Socceroos, the Australian national football team, scoring 2 goals in those appearances.

Davidson began his domestic senior football career in 1976 and 1977, playing for Altona City SC which had been his junior club. The following year, he transferred to South Melbourne, where he played until the end of the 1984 season, making 155 appearances and scoring 13 goals. His first Australian representative honours were in 1978-79 during the Under 19 World Youth Cup, qulifiers in New Zealand and Paraguay and made 10 youth appearances.

He moved to England for the 1984-85 season for Nottingham Forest F.C. and a promising start where he broke into the first team as a right-back was curtailed by illness after suffering an epileptic fit during a reserve game one freezing night. He didn't play for the first team again and returned to the southern hemisphere after a serious back injury had sidelined him for over a year. He resumed playing in Australia in 1987 for Melbourne Croatia, making 133 appearances and scoring 10 goals from 1987 to the end of the 1991-92 season.

Near the end of his playing career, he guested for South Melbourne FC for two seasons, (1994-95 and 1995-96),while with the Malaysian club, Pahang FA in between (1992-96). His penultimate season (1996-97) he guested with the Collingwood Warriors, and his last season (1997-98) was back with the [Melbourne Knights]. He finally retired in 1998 at the age of 38 after 3 World Cup campaigns and 1 Olympic Games he received an AMP awarded to him by the Sultan of Pahang in 1996 and was inducted to the Football Federation Australia Hall of Champions in 2001.