# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-knight
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:23:33.843Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-knight"
name: "Alan Knight"
slug: "alan-knight"
description: "Alan Edward Knight MBE is an English former footballer turned manager. He holds the record for the most appearances for a single club by a goalkeeper, having played 683 league games for Portsmouth between 1978 and 2000; this superseded Peter Bonetti's record of exactly 600 goalkeeping appearances for Chelsea. He helped Portsmouth to the 1992 FA Cup semi final which they lost on a penalty shootout to Liverpool."
tagline: "English footballer (born 1961)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1961-06-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.03
  momentum:             19.93457943925234
  historical:           8.762097333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Knight"
    title: "Alan Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "ألان نايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "الان نايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%86_%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA_(%D9%81%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA)"
    title: "آلن نایت (فوتبالیست)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Knight_(footballer%2C_born_1961)"
    title: "Alan Knight (footballer, born 1961)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%86_%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA_(%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84)"
    title: "آلن نایت (بازیکن فوتبال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Knight"
    title: "Alan Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Knight"
    title: "Alan Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9F_%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%99%D7%98"
    title: "אלן נייט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Knight"
    title: "Alan Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2830533"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump