Ken Satchwell

Position
Midfielder
Nationality
Place Of Birth
Birmingham
Date Of Birth
January 17, 1940
Date Of Death
January 24, 2016 (76)
Games Played
81
-
Per Game
Games Started
81
1.0
Per Game
Minutes
7290
90.0
Per Game
Goals
27
0.3
Per Game
Assists
0
0
Per Game
Notes
Stats
Matches
Transfers
Gallery
Internationals

Satchwell scored four goals in a 5-3 home win over Wrexham on Christmas Day 1959 – the last time City played a league game on the 25 December. The following day in the return at the Racecourse Ground Ken scored another two goals in a 3-1 win to notch a Christmas double for the Bantams.

Ken, a raw 19-year old centre-forward, had only become a regular first-team player two months previously and had scored only four goals in total before the Wrexham game. A precocious youngster, Erdington-born Ken started his career as an amateur with Aston Villa, playing regularly and scoring prolifically for the Villa youth team. In 1956 he played alongside Ron Atkinson as Villa beat City 4-0 in the FA Youth Cup.

When the time came for professional contracts Villa were reluctant and Ken started playing for works side SU Carburettors and scored over 100 goals in the Birmingham Works League. With the top clubs scouts circling Ken signed amateur forms with City and Wolves. When the Football League pointed out that he could only sign for one club he plumped for City.

He was an amateur when he made his debut on the left wing at Oldham in a Division Four game in August 1958. He played 15 games in City’s promotion-winning team that season and scored one goal, a 90th minute headed winner in a top of the table clash with Millwall in October.

The following season Ken became a regular, playing alongside journeyman striker Ray Straw as City came close to a second successive promotion. Straw netted 20 goals and Ken 15, in 28 games, earning the nickname of Satch the Snatch. After Jimmy Hill took over in November 1961 Ken was in the cold and although Derby and Barnsley wanted to sign him he didn’t want to move from Birmingham and joined Nuneaton Borough, who offered to pay his benefit.

Ken scored prolifically for Borough and helped them to the Southern League Championship in his first season. His feats attracted league scouts again and Walsall paid £1200 for his signature in January 1965. In three seasons he scored eight goals in 63 games, playing on the right wing before a slipped disc forced him to retire, although he did play briefly for Wellington Town and Stourbridge.

He went to work at British Leyland as a machine tool operator, moving later to Land Rover at Solihull.

Hat tricks (1)
1959-60
25 December 1959 v Wrexham H (4 goals)

League Cup (England)
1962-1963
Coventry City
1
1
90′
1960-1961
Coventry City
2
2
180′
2 (0)
3
3
0
270′
0
0
0
2 (0)
0
0
Football League Third Division (England)
1961-1962
Coventry City
12
12
1080′
3 (0)
1960-1961
Coventry City
13
13
1170′
2 (0)
1959-1960
Coventry City
28
28
2520′
15 (0)
53
53
0
4770′
0
0
0
20 (0)
0
0
FA Cup (England)
1961-1962
Coventry City
1
1
90′
1 (0)
1959-1960
Coventry City
2
2
180′
1958-1959
Coventry City
1
1
90′
4
4
0
360′
0
0
0
1 (0)
0
0
Southern Professional Floodlit Cup (England)
1959-1960
Coventry City
5
5
450′
2 (0)
1958-1959
Coventry City
1
1
90′
1 (0)
6
6
0
540′
0
0
0
3 (0)
0
0
Football League Fourth Division (England)
1958-1959
Coventry City
15
15
1350′
1 (0)
15
15
0
1350′
0
0
0
1 (0)
0
0
Totals:
81
81
0
7290′
0
0
0
27 (0)
0
0
Date
For
Against
H/A
Result
League Cup 1962-1963
League Cup 1962-1963
Coventry City
Portsmouth
A
L 5:1
90`
Football League Third Division 1961-1962
Football League Third Division 1961-1962
Coventry City
Bristol City
H
D 1:1
90`
Coventry City
Northampton Town
A
L 4:1
90`
Coventry City
Barnsley
A
L 2:1
90`
Coventry City
Lincoln City
H
D 2:2
90`
Coventry City
Torquay United
A
L 1:0
90`
Coventry City
Peterborough United
A
W 2:3
90`
2
Coventry City
Shrewsbury Town
H
W 4:1
90`
1
Coventry City
Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic
A
D 1:1
90`
Coventry City
Queens Park Rangers
A
L 4:1
90`
Coventry City
Barnsley
H
D 1:1
90`
Coventry City
Bradford Park Avenue
A
D 0:0
90`
Coventry City
Brentford
H
W 2:0
90`
FA Cup 1961-1962
FA Cup 1961-1962
Coventry City
Gillingham
H
W 2:0
90`
1
Football League Third Division 1960-1961
Football League Third Division 1960-1961
Coventry City
Southend United
A
L 4:1
90`
1
Coventry City
Grimsby Town
A
W 2:3
90`
Coventry City
Watford
H
L 0:1
90`
Coventry City
Walsall
A
D 1:1
90`
Coventry City
Chesterfield
A
L 4:1
90`
Coventry City
Southend United
H
W 3:0
90`
Coventry City
Bristol City
A
L 2:0
90`
Coventry City
Torquay United
A
L 3:0
90`
Coventry City
Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic
A
L 2:1
90`
1
Coventry City
Reading
H
W 2:1
90`
Coventry City
Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic
H
W 1:0
90`
Coventry City
Hull City
A
D 1:1
90`
Coventry City
Queens Park Rangers
A
L 2:1
90`
League Cup 1960-1961
League Cup 1960-1961
Coventry City
Portsmouth
A
L 2:0
90`
Coventry City
Barrow
H
W 4:2
90`
2
Football League Third Division 1959-1960
Football League Third Division 1959-1960
Coventry City
Reading
H
D 1:1
90`
Coventry City
Grimsby Town
H
L 0:2
90`
Coventry City
Southend United
A
L 1:0
90`
Coventry City
Grimsby Town
A
L 3:0
90`
Coventry City
Norwich City
H
W 2:1
90`
Coventry City
Mansfield Town
A
W 2:4
90`
1
Coventry City
Port Vale
A
W 0:1
90`
Coventry City
Brentford
A
L 3:1
90`
Coventry City
Southampton
H
W 4:1
90`
Coventry City
Port Vale
H
D 1:1
90`
Coventry City
Barnsley
A
L 1:0
90`
Coventry City
Bury
H
L 0:1
90`
Coventry City
Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic
A
D 2:2
90`
1
Coventry City
Newport County
A
L 2:0
90`
Coventry City
Accrington Stanley
H
W 2:1
90`
1
Coventry City
Colchester United
A
D 0:0
90`
Coventry City
Chesterfield
H
W 1:0
90`
1
Coventry City
York City
H
W 5:2
90`
2
Coventry City
Wrexham
A
W 1:3
90`
2
Coventry City
Wrexham
H
W 5:3
90`
4
Coventry City
Reading
A
L 4:2
90`
Coventry City
Brentford
H
W 2:1
90`
Coventry City
Norwich City
A
W 1:4
90`
Coventry City
Shrewsbury Town
A
L 3:2
90`
2
Coventry City
Southend United
H
W 2:0
90`
1
Coventry City
Southampton
A
L 5:1
90`
Coventry City
Bury
A
L 2:1
90`
Coventry City
Tranmere Rovers
H
W 1:0
90`
Southern Professional Floodlit Cup 1959-1960
Southern Professional Floodlit Cup 1959-1960
Coventry City
Southampton
H
W 2:1
90`
Coventry City
Fulham
A
W 0:1
90`
1
Coventry City
Fulham
H
D 1:1
90`
1
Coventry City
Southend United
H
W 4:0
90`
Coventry City
Southend United
A
D 0:0
90`
FA Cup 1959-1960
FA Cup 1959-1960
Coventry City
Southampton
A
L 5:1
90`
Coventry City
Southampton
H
D 1:1
90`
Football League Fourth Division 1958-1959
Football League Fourth Division 1958-1959
Coventry City
Port Vale
A
L 3:0
90`
Coventry City
Walsall
H
D 0:0
90`
Coventry City
Northampton Town
A
L 4:0
90`
Coventry City
Crewe Alexandra
H
W 3:2
90`
Coventry City
Bradford Park Avenue
A
L 2:0
90`
Coventry City
Workington
A
D 2:2
90`
Coventry City
Northampton Town
H
W 2:0
90`
Coventry City
Crewe Alexandra
A
D 1:1
90`
Coventry City
Millwall
H
W 1:0
90`
1
Coventry City
Barrow
A
W 0:3
90`
Coventry City
Aldershot
A
W 0:4
90`
Coventry City
Carlisle United
H
L 1:2
90`
Coventry City
Aldershot
H
W 7:1
90`
Coventry City
Gateshead
A
D 1:1
90`
Coventry City
Oldham Athletic
A
L 2:0
90`
FA Cup 1958-1959
FA Cup 1958-1959
Coventry City
Plymouth Argyle
H
L 1:3
90`
Southern Professional Floodlit Cup 1958-1959
Southern Professional Floodlit Cup 1958-1959
Coventry City
Millwall
A
L 6:1
90`
1
Club Out
Club In
Transfer Date
Fee
Club Out / Club In
Transfer Date / Fee
Coventry City
Nuneaton Borough
Thu, 30 May, 1963
Coventry City
Nuneaton Borough
Thu, 30 May, 1963
US Carburettors
Coventry City
Mon, 01 Sep, 1958
US Carburettors
Coventry City
Mon, 01 Sep, 1958