Steve Heighway

Stephen Derek Heighway (born 25 November 1947) is an Irish former footballer who played as a winger. He was part of the successful Liverpool team of the 1970s. Following his eleven-year spell at the club, he was ranked 23rd in the 100 Players Who Shook The Kop poll. He has become immortalised in a Kop chant in recognition, for what the club's official site states, for having "dazzled audiences the length of the country."

Signed by Bill Shankly for Liverpool while a university student playing non-league football, Heighway won five English league championships, an FA Cup, a Football League Cup, two European Cups, two UEFA Cups, and a UEFA Super Cup. At international level he had 26 caps for the Republic of Ireland.

Heighway became academy director at Liverpool in a period when the club welcomed players including Steven Gerrard, Steve McManaman, Robbie Fowler, Jamie Carragher and Michael Owen. His teams won the FA Youth Cup three times. He retired in 2007 but later rejoined the Liverpool Academy in a consulting role, which he held until retiring again in 2022.

Life and playing career Heighway was born in Dublin, Ireland.

Heighway announced his retirement from Liverpool on 26 April 2007, immediately after the side he managed won the FA Youth Cup for the second year running. He commented: "I don't know what the future holds just yet, we'll have to wait and see."

Heighway returned to working at Liverpool's Academy part-time in 2015, at the request of Academy Director Alex Inglethorpe, before taking up a full-time consultancy role later that year. After seven years in this position, he retired for a second time in December 2022.

Heighway also features in the popular Liverpool chant, "The Fields of Anfield Road", which is frequently sung by Liverpool fans during matches. 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80 FA Cup: 1973–74; Football League Cup: 1980–81 1976, 1977 (shared), 1979 European Cup:

As Academy Director

FA Youth Cup: 1996, 2006, 2007