Kevin Phillips will retire from first class football after
helping Leicester City win promotion to the Premier League. Phillips, who scored the play-off final winner to earn Crystal
Palace promotion last season, joined the Foxes in January. The 40-year-old, capped eight times by England, will now join
the club’s coaching staff.
Championship champions, Leicester City, is his ninth professional
club, previously playing for Watford, Sunderland, Southampton, Aston Villa,
West Bromwich Albion, Birmingham City, Blackpool and Crystal Palace, in a
career which began at Vicarage Road in 1994. In his career he has scored 287
goals.
Kevin Phillips has been promoted to the Premier League
five times with:-
Sunderland 1998-1999
West Bromwich Albion 2007-08
Birmingham 2008-09
Crystal Palace 2012-13
Leicester City 2013-14
The most successful period in Phillips's 20-year
professional career was spent at Sunderland, scoring 116 goals in 211 league
games, when he became the only English player to win Europe's Golden Shoe award
in 2000. He is also the last Englishman to win the Premier
League's Golden Boot, scoring 30 goals in that season. Phillips made five
substitute appearances for Palace this term before being released by mutual consent
in January.
He has become both Leicester's oldest ever outfield
player and goalscorer, having also set the record for oldest player to feature
for Crystal Palace in the Premier League earlier this season as well.
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