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'''Adam Stansfield''' (10 September 1978 – 10 August 2010) was an English professional footballer who played as a striker. He competed professionally for Yeovil Town, Hereford United and Exeter City, and won promotion from the Football Conference to The Football League with all three teams.
Having played for three counties as a child, Stansfield began his career in non-league with Cullompton Rangers and Elmore, and had unsuccessful trials at league teams. At the age of 23, he signed his first professional contract with Yeovil Town, after impressing their manager Gary Johnson in a match against them. In his first season, he helped them win the FA Trophy, scoring in the 2002 final. The following season, Yeovil won the Conference and promotion into The Football League, although Stansfield was ruled out with a broken leg in the first game. In 2004, he transferred to Hereford United, where he won promotion to The Football League via the 2006 play-offs, and repeated the feat with Exeter City two years later. He also helped Exeter earn promotion into League One in 2009. At international level, Stansfield played five matches and scored one goal for England's national semi-professional team, winning the 2005 Four Nations Tournament.
Stansfield was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in April 2010. He returned to training after surgery and chemotherapy, but died on 10 August that year. A foundation in his name was posthumously set up by his family to provide sporting opportunities and raise awareness of colorectal cancer. He has posthumously been featured on a Flybe airliner livery and a local currency banknote in Exeter.
==Early and personal life== Stansfield was born in Plymouth, Devon, as the third of four children, and supported Nottingham Forest.<ref name=early>{{cite web|title=Adam's Biography – Early Days|url=https://www.adamstansfieldfoundation.com/biography-early-days/|publisher=Adam Stansfield Foundation|access-date=12 April 2015}}</ref> On 2 June 2001 he married Marie, with whom he had three sons.<ref>{{cite web|title=Adam's Biography – Outside Of Football|url=https://www.adamstansfieldfoundation.com/outside-of-football/|publisher=Adam Stansfield Foundation|access-date=12 April 2015}}</ref> By the 2019–20 season, his son Jay was scoring regularly for Fulham's Under 18 team, and in 2022 joined Exeter on loan from the Craven Cottage side, wearing number 9, the shirt number synonymous with his father's legacy at the club.<ref>{{Cite tweet |user=officialecfc |author=Exeter City FC |title=✍️ H O M E C O M I N G 🤩<br/> We are delighted to announce the signing of Jay Stansfield on loan from @FulhamFC for the rest of the 2️⃣2️⃣/2️⃣3️⃣ season ❤️<br/> #ECFC #OneGrecianGoal|number=1565731183450882049 |access-date=2 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref> He made his debut as a substitute during Exeter's 1–0 victory over MK Dons.<ref>{{cite web|title=Exeter City official website|url=https://www.exetercityfc.co.uk/news/2022/september/mk-report/|publisher=Exeter FC|access-date=4 September 2022}}</ref> Devon journalist Gary Andrews remembered Stansfield senior as a man who would spend time with his family after matches while speaking to fans and the press. He wrote that "I had the pleasure of interviewing Adam on a regular basis... I say pleasure, because his answers were thoughtful and intelligent and he came across as a man who was delighted to be back home with his friends and family."<ref name=andrews/>
==Career==
===Early career=== Stansfield's first club was Evesham Colts under-10s. He played at county level for Worcestershire, Leicestershire and Devon. When his family settled back in Devon he joined Twyford Spartans, scoring 84 goals in 54 matches. He played in Tiverton Town's youth team as a left back before reverting to being a striker at his first senior club, non-League side Cullompton Rangers. He later moved to Elmore, where he attracted trials from Exeter City, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Torquay United, all of which were unsuccessful. His siblings joined the Royal Air Force and he thought of joining them, but continued searching for a breakthrough in professional football.<ref name=early/>
===Yeovil Town=== [[File:Yeovil Town FC, View across the pitch - geograph.org.uk - 1722486.jpg|thumb|Yeovil Town celebrating their promotion to The Football League at Huish Park, 19 April 2003|alt=A view inside a football stadium. The winning team are posing together for a photograph, and there are photographers and journalists on the pitch.]] In October 2001, Stansfield's performances for Elmore impressed Yeovil Town manager Gary Johnson to sign him.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sowden|first1=Steve|title=Football mourns loss of Adam Stansfield, aged 31|url=https://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/8324394.Football_mourns_loss_of_Adam_Stansfield__aged_31/|access-date=12 August 2015|work=Bridgwater Mercury|date=11 August 2010}}</ref> He made his debut in the Conference on 9 November, playing the entirety of a 3–0 loss away to Southport.<ref>{{cite news|title=Southport 3–0 Yeovil|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_conf/1645490.stm|access-date=12 April 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=9 November 2001}}</ref> His first goal came on 1 December, concluding a 3–1 victory at Northwich Victoria.<ref>{{cite news|title=Northwich 1–3 Yeovil|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_conf/1683103.stm|access-date=12 April 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=1 December 2001}}</ref> His first season at Huish Park was a success, finishing as the top scorer with 16 goals, eight of which came in the club's victorious FA Trophy run. He scored twice in a fourth round replay at Doncaster Rovers, as Yeovil came from 0–3 down for an eventual 5–4 victory.<ref>{{cite news|title=FA Trophy: Yeovil clinch thriller|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2431278/FA-Trophy-Yeovil-clinch-thriller.html|access-date=12 August 2015|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=24 February 2002}}</ref> In the final on 12 May he scored the second goal of a 2–0 win over Stevenage Borough at the Villa Park, Birmingham.<ref name=stevenage>{{cite news|title=Yeovil lift FA Trophy|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/1980104.stm|access-date=12 April 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=12 May 2002}}</ref>
On the first day of the following season, Stansfield was substituted through injury after 16 minutes of an eventual 2–2 home draw with Gravesend & Northfleet to be replaced by Abdoulai Demba.<ref>{{cite news|title=Yeovil 2–2 Gravesend|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_conf/2195678.stm|access-date=12 April 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=17 August 2002}}</ref> It was later confirmed to be a break of the tibia and fibula.<ref>{{cite news|title=Stansfield breaks leg|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/y/yeovil/2203297.stm|access-date=12 April 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=19 August 2002}}</ref> He missed the remainder of the season, in which Yeovil won the Conference to be promoted to The Football League for the first time.<ref name=doncaster>{{cite news|title=Doncaster 0–4 Yeovil|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/2917915.stm|access-date=12 April 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=12 April 2003}}</ref>
He recovered to feature in the next campaign, making his league debut on 16 August 2003. In that match, Yeovil's first home match in The Football League, he came on as an 80th-minute substitute for Kirk Jackson in a 3–0 win against Carlisle United.<ref name=four/> His first of six goals in the Third Division season came on 6 September, opening a 2–0 home win over Swansea City. He was given a rare start in that match as first-choice forward Kevin Gall was away with Wales under-21.<ref>{{cite news|title=Yeovil 2–0 Swansea|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_div_3/3192463.stm|access-date=12 April 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=6 September 2003}}</ref>
===Hereford United=== On 14 June 2004, Stansfield returned to the Conference with Hereford United, signed by Graham Turner to replace their previous season's top scorer Steve Guinan, who had been sold to Cheltenham Town.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/h/hereford_united/3806767.stm|title=Bulls sign Stansfield|publisher=BBC Sport|date=14 June 2004|access-date=4 January 2009}}</ref> He scored 20 goals across the season, including two on 25 March 2005 in a 6–0 win at Farnborough Town. In that match, he came on in the 77th minute for Daniel Carey-Bertram, who had also scored two.<ref>{{cite news|title=Farnborough 0–6 Hereford|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_conf/4363909.stm|access-date=12 April 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=25 March 2005}}</ref> Hereford reached the promotion play-offs, where they lost in the semi-finals to Stevenage. In the following season they won promotion by the play-offs, with Stansfield starting in the final on 20 May 2006 at the Walkers Stadium in Leicester, a 3–2 extra-time victory over Halifax Town.<ref name=halifax>{{cite news|title=Halifax 2–3 Hereford (aet)|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_conf/4771819.stm|access-date=12 April 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=20 May 2006}}</ref>
===Exeter City=== On 12 June 2006, with his contract expired, Stansfield decided to remain in the Conference, joining Exeter City.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/h/hereford_united/5071106.stm|title=Exeter snap up Hereford striker|publisher=BBC Sport|date=12 June 2006|access-date=4 January 2009}}</ref> He told local radio that his aim was not to achieve promotion or reach a certain tally of goals, but to influence the club's younger players.<ref name=andrews/>
He scored nine times in 40 league games in his first season, including two in a 2–1 home win over relegated Southport on 28 April 2007 in order to seal a play-off place.<ref>{{cite news|title=Exeter 2–1 Southport|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_conf/6579041.stm|access-date=12 April 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=28 April 2007}}</ref> Eleven days later, in the second leg of the play-off semi-final away to Oxford United, he scored a goal which took the match to extra time and eventually a penalty shootout which his side won.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rae|first1=Richard|title=Exeter prevail in penalty drama to reach Wembley|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/may/09/newsstory.morecambe|access-date=12 April 2015|work=The Guardian|date=9 May 2007}}</ref> In the final on 20 May at Wembley Stadium, he came on as a 36th-minute substitute for goalscorer Lee Phillips in a 1–2 loss to Morecambe.<ref>{{cite news|title=Exeter 1–2 Morecambe|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/6649837.stm|access-date=12 April 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=20 May 2007}}</ref>
On 26 April 2008, Stansfield scored in Exeter's 4–4 draw at Burton Albion which qualified them for that season's play-offs.<ref>{{cite news|title=Burton 4–4 Exeter|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_conf/7356026.stm|access-date=12 April 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=26 April 2008}}</ref> He started in the final, whereby the team returned to The Football League for the first time in five years with a 1–0 Wembley win over Cambridge United.<ref name=cambridge>{{cite news|title=Exeter 1–0 Cambridge Utd|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_conf/7393784.stm|access-date=12 April 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=26 April 2008|first=Chris|last=Whyatt}}</ref>
He scored 10 goals in 37 league games as they won a second consecutive promotion into League One in the 2008–09 season. This included consecutive braces on 27 September and 4 October, in wins over Macclesfield Town (4–1 away) and Gillingham (3–0 home).<ref>{{cite news|title=Stansfield brace inspires Exeter|url=https://www1.skysports.com/football/live/match/4798/report|access-date=12 April 2015|work=Sky Sports|date=27 September 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Gills out-of-sorts as Stansfield bags a brace|url=https://www1.skysports.com/football/live/match/5409/report|access-date=12 April 2015|work=Sky Sports|date=4 October 2008}}</ref> The following campaign, despite never having previously played at as high a level, he was a regular starter for Exeter in League One, scoring eight goals in a season curtailed by his cancer diagnosis.<ref name=andrews/>
===International career=== Stansfield earned five caps and scored one goal for the England national semi-professional team.<ref name="Non-League Club Directory 2013">{{cite book | editor1-first = Mike | editor1-last = Williams | editor2-first = Tony | editor2-last = Williams | title = Non-League Club Directory 2013 | year = 2012 | publisher = Tony Williams Publications | isbn = 978-1-869833-77-0 | pages = 1003, 1005, 1010 }}</ref> He featured in the 2002 edition of the Four Nations Tournament, and made his debut in England's opening match, a 1–1 draw with Wales at York Street in Boston on 14 May.<ref name="Non-League Club Directory 2013"/> Stansfield was injured in the first half of the last match, a 2–0 win against Scotland at Rockingham Road in Kettering on 18 May, while Wales won the title.<ref name="Non-League Club Directory 2013"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Moore skippers England win|url=https://www.stagsnet.net/news/newsdetails.php?newsid=209|access-date=12 August 2015|agency=The Non-League Paper|publisher=Stagsnet|date=19 May 2002}}</ref> In 2005, while back in the Conference with Hereford, he was again called up for the tournament by manager Paul Fairclough.<ref>{{cite news|title=Boss unveils Four Nations squad|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_conf/4536501.stm|access-date=12 August 2015|publisher=BBC Sport|date=11 May 2015}}</ref> Stansfield played in two matches<ref name="Non-League Club Directory 2013"/> as England won the tournament with three wins.<ref name=rsssf>{{cite web|first=Erik|last=Garin|title=Four Nations Semi-professional Tournament|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/eur-semipro.html|publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|date=18 October 2012|access-date=16 August 2015}}</ref>
==Illness and death== Stansfield suffered from persistent abdominal pain in the early part of 2010, and was admitted to hospital for tests at the end of March. On 8 April 2010, Exeter City confirmed to the media that he had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Manager Paul Tisdale told local news programme ''BBC Spotlight'' that "there's little good on this subject... but if there's someone who can deal with it and meet it head on with real purpose, Adam's the man".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/e/exeter_city/8598659.stm|title=Exeter City striker Adam Stansfield has bowel cancer |publisher=BBC Sport|date=8 April 2010|access-date=8 April 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100411045000/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/e/exeter_city/8598659.stm| archive-date= 11 April 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>
Later that month, Stansfield underwent surgery to remove part of his colon. Club vice-chairman Julian Tagg reported that the operation was successful, and that Stansfield appeared happy and was making jokes.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11719_6105337,00.html|title=Stansfield surgery a success|publisher=Sky Sports|date=20 April 2010|access-date=12 August 2010}}</ref> He joined the Exeter squad for the first day of pre-season training in July, appearing weak from chemotherapy. His condition deteriorated rapidly and he died on 10 August in Exeter, with his death being announced shortly after Exeter's loss to Ipswich Town in the League Cup.<ref name=andrews>{{cite news|last1=Andrews|first1=Gary|title=Adam Stansfield remembered|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/e/exeter_city/8904675.stm|access-date=13 November 2015|publisher=BBC Sport|date=11 August 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Hugman|18692|access-date=26 August 2017}}</ref>
As a mark of respect, Dagenham & Redbridge postponed the game Exeter were due to play against them at Victoria Road four days after his death.<ref>{{cite news|title=Daggers-Exeter postponed after Adam Stansfield death|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/e/exeter_city/8897986.stm|access-date=13 November 2015|publisher=BBC Sport|date=12 August 2010}}</ref> Exeter retired his shirt number 9 for nine seasons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.exetercityfc.co.uk/page/OfficialWord/0,,10436~2129402,00.html |title=Club Retires Number 9 Shirt |date=20 August 2010 |work=exetercityfc.co.uk |access-date=22 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824055218/http://www.exetercityfc.co.uk/page/OfficialWord/0%2C%2C10436~2129402%2C00.html |archive-date=24 August 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His son, Jay Stansfield, wore the number 9 shirt for Exeter City, when he was on loan from Fulham in the 2022–23 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/exeter-adam-fulham-league-one-b2159055.html|title=Jay Stansfield to wear number 9|date=3 September 2022 |language=en |publisher=independent.co.uk|access-date=4 September 2024}}</ref>
Stansfield's body was taken from St James Park to his funeral service at Exeter Cathedral on 25 August, attended by more than 1,000 mourners. A private family service was held later.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fans attend funeral of Exeter City star Adam Stansfield|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-11086414|access-date=13 November 2015|work=BBC News|date=25 August 2010}}</ref>
===Posthumous recognition=== At his funeral, Stansfield's widow Marie had an idea to set up the Adam Stansfield Foundation, which by the fourth anniversary of his death had raised over £150,000. It works in offering children football in Devon, Somerset and Herefordshire, the three counties in which he played professionally, as well as increasing opportunities for the disabled to take part in the sport. The foundation also aims to increase awareness of bowel cancer.<ref name=foundation>{{cite news|title=Adam Stansfield Foundation continues to grow four years on from Exeter City striker's death |url=http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Adam-Stansfield-Foundation-continues-grow-years/story-22337599-detail/story.html |access-date=12 April 2015 |work=Exeter Express and Echo |date=11 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812231146/http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Adam-Stansfield-Foundation-continues-grow-years/story-22337599-detail/story.html |archive-date=12 August 2014 }}</ref>
Stansfield continues to be remembered by fans of his former teams. On 9 August 2014, as Exeter started the new season against Portsmouth, a giant flag resembling his club shirt was displayed by the crowd.<ref name=foundation/> Hereford, the phoenix club of Hereford United, gave a minute's applause to Stansfield in the ninth minute – his number for the Bulls — in the 2016 FA Vase Final.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Alan|title=Morpeth come back to win FA Vase and crush Hereford's Wembley dream|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/may/22/hereford-fc-morpeth-town-fa-vase-match-report|access-date=14 March 2017|work=The Guardian|date=22 May 2016}}</ref> Exeter and Yeovil agreed that on their meeting at St James Park on 8 August 2015, there would be a minute's applause in the seventh minute and ninth, for the numbers he wore at each club.<ref>{{cite news|title=Exeter City and Yeovil Town to mark Adam Stansfield anniversary|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/33311575|access-date=29 June 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=29 June 2015}}</ref> Earlier the same day, there was also a match between the two clubs' supporters in Topsham, Devon, to raise funds for his foundation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://ecfcst.org.uk/2015/08/06/adam-stansfield-memorial-trophy-saturday-8-august-2015/|title=Adam Stansfield Memorial Trophy, Saturday 8 August 2015|access-date=30 May 2016|publisher=Exeter City F.C. Supporters' Trust|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827142218/http://ecfcst.org.uk/2015/08/06/adam-stansfield-memorial-trophy-saturday-8-august-2015/|archive-date=27 August 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In March 2011, Elmore named their new stand at Horsdon Park after Stansfield, ahead of a game against Hengrove Athletic. The match attracted over 100 fans, ahead of a usual average of 35.<ref>{{cite news|title=Elmore honour club legend Adam Stansfield by renaming stand|url=http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/stanno-forgotten/story-11729497-detail/story.html|access-date=22 September 2016|work=Western Morning News|date=14 March 2011}}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> From 2011 to 2015, an aeroplane belonging to Flybe bore an image of Stansfield, with other aeroplanes belonging to the company featuring such former footballers as George Best and Kevin Keegan.<ref>{{cite news|title=Flybe 'hopes fans and family will understand' after Adam Stansfield plane is repainted |url=http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Flybe-hopes-fans-family-understand-Adam/story-26841860-detail/story.html |access-date=18 August 2015 |work=Exeter Express & Echo |date=6 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724010209/http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Flybe-hopes-fans-family-understand-Adam/story-26841860-detail/story.html |archive-date=24 July 2015 }}</ref> In 2015, Stansfield was featured on £5 Exeter Pound notes in the city.<ref>{{cite news|last1=D'Albiac |first1=Stephen |title=Image of Yeovil Town legend Adam Stansfield to feature on banknotes in Exeter |url=http://www.westerngazette.co.uk/Image-Yeovil-Town-legend-Adam-Stansfield-feature/story-26307914-detail/story.html |access-date=12 April 2015 |work=Western Gazette |date=9 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723111150/http://www.westerngazette.co.uk/Image-Yeovil-Town-legend-Adam-Stansfield-feature/story-26307914-detail/story.html |archive-date=23 July 2015 }}</ref> In recognition of his achievements at Exeter City, Stansfield was in 2017 inducted into the Exeter City Hall of Fame alongside Sidney Thomas, Graham Rees and Peter Hatch.<ref>{{cite web |title=Four enter the Hall of Fame |url=https://www.exetercityfc.co.uk/news/2017/december/four-enter-the-hall-of-fame/ |access-date=6 June 2019 |publisher=Exeter City F.C. |date=5 December 2017}}</ref> In 2018 Exeter City named their new stand the Stagecoach Adam Stansfield Stand.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.exetercityfc.co.uk/news/2018/october/standopening/|title = 📝 Stagecoach Adam Stansfield Stand officially unveiled}}</ref>
His passing and legacy is referenced in the Minnie Birch song ''Show Me the Way to Go Home''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Show Me the Way to Go Home | website=YouTube | date=11 June 2020 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ofJ9i3Kdn4&pp=ygUdbWlubmllIGJpcmNoIHNob3cgbWUgdGhlIHdheSA%3D }}</ref>
==Career statistics== {| class=wikitable style="text-align: center" |+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition |- !rowspan=2|Club !rowspan=2|Season !colspan=3|League !colspan=2|FA Cup !colspan=2|League Cup !colspan=2|FA Trophy !colspan=2|Other !colspan=2|Total |- !Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals |- |rowspan=4|Yeovil Town |2001–02<ref name=soccerbase>{{Soccerbase season|29089|2001|name=Adam Stansfield|access-date=8 May 2014}}</ref> |Football Conference |23||8||0||0||colspan=2|—||8||8||0||0||31||16 |- |2002–03<ref>{{Soccerbase season|29089|2002|name=Adam Stansfield|access-date=8 May 2014}}</ref> |Football Conference |1||0||0||0||colspan=2|—||0||0||0||0||1||0 |- |2003–04<ref name=four>{{Soccerbase season|29089|2003|name=Adam Stansfield|access-date=8 May 2014}}</ref> |Third Division |31||6||2||0||0||0||colspan=2|—||2<ref group=lower-alpha name=FLT>Appearance(s) in Football League Trophy</ref>||0||35||6 |- !colspan=2|Total !55!!14!!2!!0!!0!!0!!8!!8!!2!!0!!67!!22 |- |rowspan=3|Hereford United |2004–05<ref>{{Soccerbase season|29089|2004|name=Adam Stansfield|access-date=8 May 2014}}</ref> |Conference National |39||19||3||1||colspan=2|—||4||1||8<ref group=lower-alpha>One appearances and one goal in Football League Trophy, four appearances in Conference League Cup, two in Conference National play-offs, one appearance and two goals in Herefordshire Senior Cup</ref>||3||54||24 |- |2005–06<ref>{{Soccerbase season|29089|2005|name=Adam Stansfield|access-date=8 May 2014}}</ref> |Conference National |23||6||1||0||colspan=2|—||3||2||8<ref group=lower-alpha>Three appearances and one goal in Football League Trophy, three appearances in Conference National play-offs, two appearances and two goals in Herefordshire Senior Cup</ref>||3||35||11 |- !colspan=2|Total !62!!25!!4!!1!!0!!0!!7!!3!!16!!6!!89!!35 |- |rowspan=5|Exeter City |2006–07<ref>{{Soccerbase season|29089|2006|name=Adam Stansfield|access-date=8 May 2014}}</ref> |Conference National |38||9||1||0||colspan=2|—||1||0||3<ref group=lower-alpha name=P/o>Appearances in Conference National play-offs</ref>||1||43||10 |- |2007–08<ref>{{Soccerbase season|29089|2007|name=Adam Stansfield|access-date=8 May 2014}}</ref> |Conference Premier |40||11||2||0||colspan=2|—||2||0||3<ref group=lower-alpha name=P/o/>||0||47||11 |- |2008–09<ref>{{Soccerbase season|29089|2008|name=Adam Stansfield|access-date=8 May 2014}}</ref> |League Two |37||10||1||0||1||0||colspan=2|—||1<ref group=lower-alpha name=FLT/>||0||40||10 |- |2009–10<ref>{{Soccerbase season|29089|2009|name=Adam Stansfield|access-date=8 May 2014}}</ref> |League One |27||7||2||1||0||0||colspan=2|—||1<ref group=lower-alpha name=FLT/>||0||30||8 |- !colspan=2|Total !142!!37!!6!!1!!1!!0!!3!!0!!8!!1!!160!!39 |- !colspan=3|Career total !259!!76!!12!!2!!1!!0!!18!!11!!26!!7!!316!!96 |}
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==Honours== '''Yeovil Town''' * FA Trophy: 2001–02<ref name=stevenage/> * Football Conference: 2002–03<ref name=doncaster/>
'''Hereford United''' * Conference National play-offs: 2006<ref name=halifax/>
'''Exeter City''' * Conference National play-offs: 2008<ref name=cambridge/>
'''England semi-professional''' * Four Nations Tournament: 2005<ref name=rsssf/>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.adamstansfieldfoundation.com/ Adam Stansfield Foundation] * {{Soccerbase}}
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