Nicholas Morgan (born 30 October 1959) is an English former

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who played in

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for

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Bristol City Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England, which compete in the , the second tier of English football. They have played their home games at Ashton Gate since moving from St John's Lane in 1904. The ...

Exeter City Exeter City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Exeter, Devon, England. The team play in , the third tier of the English football league system. Known as "the Grecians", the origin of their nickname is subject to ...

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Stoke City Stoke City Football Club is a professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, which competes in the . Founded as Stoke Ramblers in 1863, it changed its name to Stoke in 1878 and then to Stoke City in 1925 after Stoke ...

and

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. Morgan began his career with his local side

where he made fleeting appearances and also had time on loan at Dutch side

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. With chances limited at West Ham, Morgan joined

where he enjoyed to most success in his career. He spent five seasons at

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where he made 109 appearances scoring 35 goals. He joined

where he scored 26 goals in 104 games in four seasons before playing for

for four years. After scoring 29 goals in 89 games for the "Robins" he played for

and then

and retired in 1994.

Career

Morgan was born in

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and started his career at his boyhood club

as an apprentice before earning a professional contract in 1978. He failed to make much of an impression at the "Hammers" and joined

in 1983. Prior to joining Portsmouth Morgan had spent the 1981–82 season at Dutch club

where he played 20 times scoring six goals but they finished in 17th position and were relegated. He did much better at "Pompey" and in his first season with the club they gained promotion to the Second Division. In the next four seasons Portsmouth tried to gain a promotion to the First Division finishing fourth twice with Morgan scoring 16 goals in 1985–86. They claimed that promotion they wanted in 1986–87 but Morgan left for

just four matches into the season. He made a fine start to his Stoke career scoring on his debut against

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on 8 November 1986. He finished the 1986–87 season with 12 goals to his name. He then hit six in the following two seasons and with Stoke enduring a terrible 1989–90 season and on their way to being relegated to the Third Division, Morgan left for

in April 1989. It proved to be a good decision by Morgan as he scored four goals in seven matches as Bristol City and Stoke City swapped league places at the end of the season. He scored 17 goals in 1990–91 as Bristol City finished in 9th position. He fell out of the first team picture in 1991–92 and 1992–93 and spent a short spell on loan at

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. He left Bristol City in August 1993 for

, where he played 12 matches scoring four goals before deciding to retire from the game.

Career statistics

Source: :A. The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the

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FA Community Shield The Football Association Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield) is English football's annual match contested at Wembley Stadium between the champions of the previous Premier League season and the holders of the FA Cup. If the Premier Le ...

Full Members' Cup The Full Members' Cup was an association football cup competition held in English football from 1985 to 1992. It was also known under its sponsored names of the Simod Cup from 1987 to 1989 and the Zenith Data Systems Cup from 1989 to 1992. Th ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Morgan, Nicky English men's footballers Stoke City F.C. players West Ham United F.C. players Portsmouth F.C. players Bristol City F.C. players Exeter City F.C. players English Football League players 1959 births Living people Eredivisie players Footballers from the London Borough of Newham Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands English expatriate men's footballers Men's association football forwards