# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-allardyce
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:38:32.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-allardyce"
name: "Sam Allardyce"
slug: "sam-allardyce"
description: "Samuel Allardyce is an English football manager and former professional player. Allardyce made 578 league and cup appearances in a 21-year career spent mostly in the Football League, as well as brief spells in the North American Soccer League and League of Ireland. He was signed by Bolton Wanderers from Dudley Town in 1969 and spent nine years at Bolton, helping the club to win the Second Division title in 1977–78. He spent the 1980s as a journeyman player, spending time with Sunderland, Millwall, Tampa Bay Rowdies, Coventry City, Huddersfield Town, Bolton Wanderers, Preston North End, and West Bromwich Albion. During this time, he helped Preston win promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1986–87."
tagline: "English association football player and manager"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Big_Sam_Allardyce_signs_autographs_for_fans_October_2014.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: "1954-10-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           59.98
  momentum:             5.416506570352724
  historical:           23.444428
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1313542/"
    handle:    "nm1313542"
sources:
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    title: "Sam Allardyce"
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    title: "Sam Allardyce"
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    title: "Sam Allardyce"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "სემ ელერდაისი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "샘 앨러다이스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sems Elerdaiss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sam Allardyce"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Sam Allardyce"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump