Stan Clements

Who is Stan Clements?

Stanley Finlay Thomas "Stan" Clements, is a retired footballer who played most of his professional career for Southampton.

He was formerly a mechanical engineer in Portsmouth's naval dockyards, and joined Southampton from Gosport Borough in July 1944.

He made his league debut on 24 May 1947 in the 2-0 home victory over Fulham. He was a strong, powerful centre-half and replaced Eric Webber for 13 games in the following season when Webber was rested. Once Webber regained his place in the team, Clements made no further first-team appearances until February 1951. For the following few seasons he alternated at centre-back with Len Wilkins and Henry Horton and had a spell as team captain in 1952-53.

He scored once in 116 league games before becoming player-coach at Basingstoke Town in February 1955.

After leaving football, he qualified as a civil engineer and worked in Kenya, Uganda and Sudan, before briefly helping to coach the Kenyan national team.

He returned to the UK in the mid-1980s and now lives in Gosport.