Paul Rideout

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Paul Rideout
Full name	Paul Rideout
Date of birth	August 14, 1964 (1964-08-14) (age 43)
Place of birth	Bournemouth, England
Playing position	Striker
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1980–1983 1983–1985 1985–1988 1988–1991 1990–1991 1991 1992 1992–1997 1997–1998 1998–1999 1999–2000 2000–2002	Swindon Town Aston Villa Bari Southampton Swindon Town (loan) Notts County Rangers Everton Huan Dao Vanguards Kansas City Wizards Shenzhen Jianlibao Tranmere Rovers	095 (38) 054 (19) 099 (23) 075 (19) 009 0(1) 011 0(3) 012 0(1) 111 (29) 046 0(6)
National team
1984–1986	England U21	006 0(1)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Paul Rideout (born 14 August 1964 in Bournemouth) was an English professional football player who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He is now a coach.

Rideout's career began as a 16 year old at Swindon Town as their youngest ever first team player. After scoring 23 goals in 44 games in his third season he transferred to Aston Villa and then A.S. Bari in Italy. He then returned to England, joining Southampton in July 1988, when he also returned to Swindon Town for a loan spell.

Short stays at Notts County and Rangers in Scotland followed, before he joined Everton for £500,000 in August 1992. Rideout spent 7 years with The Toffees, and is memorable for scoring the winning goal in the 1995 FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium against Manchester United.

However, towards the end of his stay at Everton, Rideout was mostly used as a substitute, and at the end of the 1996/1997 season he transferred to Huan Dao Vanguards in China, where he was voted 'Best Overseas player' in the Chinese League. He then moved to the United States of America in 1998 to play for the Kansas City Wizards from 1998-1999 before returning to the Chinese league until 2000, playing for Shenzhen Jianlibao.

Rideout's last club was Tranmere Rovers, where he played until May 2002, before being appointed to the club's coaching staff as an assistant with Tranmere Rovers Youth Academy. His time at Tranmere Rovers is most memorable for the FA Cup match against former club Southampton, in which he scored three of four second half goals after his team had been 3–0 down at half-time. Following his spell coaching at the club's academy, Rideout then returned to the United States and began coaching with the Kansas City Wizards, managing all three of the club's youth squads.

Although he did not represent the England national football team at full-level, he played several times for England at schoolboy, under-18 and under-21 level. At international level he scored over 30 goals, including 3 goals for England schoolboys in a match lost 4–5 to Scotland, at Wembley Stadium.