Colin Dobson

Huddersfield Town Dobson moved on to Tom Johnston's Huddersfield Town for a £20,000 fee in August 1966. He made a significant impact with 17 goals in 39 games in the 1966–67 season; strike partner Tony Leighton also claimed 20 goals to help Town to a sixth-place finish in the Second Division. Dobson finished as the club's top-scorer with 14 goals in 47 games in the 1967–68 campaign, including one in the League Cup semi-final defeat to Arsenal at Highbury. He was then a top-scorer for a second time as he bagged 11 goals in 43 matches in the 1968–69 season, as new boss Ian Greaves took the "Terriers" to within ten points of promotion. Dobson built a successful partnership with Frank Worthington and claimed nine goals in his 33 appearances as promotion was achieved with a first-place finish in 1969–70. However, he appeared just 12 times in the 1970–71 campaign, claiming one goal, and departed Leeds Road at the end of the season. He also played four Third Division games at Pat Saward's Brighton & Hove Albion in January 1972 on a loan deal that was expected to be made permanent.

Bristol Rovers In June 1972, Dobson signed with Bristol Rovers as a player-coach, having been a former teammate of manager Don Megson at Sheffield Wednesday. Later he became the coach of Qatari side Al Rayyan, before returning to England to take up the youth coach position at Aston Villa. He also was the youth coach at Portuguese Sporting Lisbon, the youth coach and chief scout at Gillingham, a coach back at the Coventry City youth set-up, before taking up the position as first-team coach of Kuwaiti Al Arabi. In September 1995, he returned to Port Vale as a temporary coach and departed Vale Park again in May 1996. He was appointed chief scout at the Britannia Stadium in 2000 by director of football John Rudge, but left to scout for Watford in June 2005, only to return to the "Potters" by 2008. He left the club in June 2013.

Death Dobson died in Middlesbrough on 16 February 2023, at age 82.

Career statistics + Appearances and goals by club, season, and competition

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1961–62 First Division

1962–63

Bristol Rovers Football League Third Division second-place promotion: 1973–74