# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-ayre
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:27:56.448Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-ayre"
name: "Billy Ayre"
slug: "billy-ayre"
description: "William Ayre was an English footballer who played for three clubs in a sixteen-year professional career, making over three hundred League appearances in the process. After retiring from the playing side of the game, he became a manager, and took the helm at five clubs between 1984 and 2000. He guided Blackpool to two successive play-off finals, in 1991 and 1992, during his four years in charge of the club."
tagline: "Football player and manager (1952-2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ayre_at_the_Millennium.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1952-05-07"
deathDate: "2002-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.82
  momentum:             7.297297297297298
  historical:           4.610152
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "بيلي أير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "بيلى اير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ayre"
    title: "Billy Ayre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A2%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "بیلی آیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ayre"
    title: "Billy Ayre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4912131"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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