{{short description|English footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Use British English|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox football biography | name = John Coshall | image = | image_size = | caption = | fullname = John William Macdonald Coshall | birth_date = {{birth date|1901|1|21|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |title=John Coshall |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe849121/john-coshall/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher=HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG |access-date=30 May 2024 |language=en}}</ref> | birth_place = Erith, England | death_date = {{death year and age|1975|1901}} | death_place = | position = Left-back | currentclub = | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = | years1 = | clubs1 = Erith & Belvedere | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1928–1929 | clubs2 = West Ham United | caps2 = 2 | goals2 = 0 | years3 = | clubs3 = Cannes | caps3 = | goals3 = | totalcaps = | totalgoals = }} '''John William Macdonald Coshall''' (21 January 1901 – 1975) was an English footballer who played as a left-back in the Football League for West Ham United. He later played for French club AS Cannes.<ref name=Joyce2012>{{cite book| first=Michael| last=Joyce| title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939| year=2012| orig-year=2002| publisher=SoccerData| location=Nottingham| isbn=978-1-905891-61-0| page=66}}</ref>

Coshall joined West Ham United for the 1928–29 season, along with Erith teammate Arthur Smith, after impressing during preseason games.<ref name=Hogg2005>{{cite book |last=Hogg |first=Tony |title=Who's Who of West Ham United |year=2005 |publisher=Profile Sports Media| isbn=1-903135-50-8 |pages=53}}</ref> He made two First Division appearances for the east London club.<ref name=whs>{{cite web|url=http://www.westhamstats.info/westham.php?west=2&ham=150&united=John_Coshall| title=John Coshall| website=westhamstats.info|access-date=24 April 2018}}</ref> He went on to join AS Cannes, part of a contingent of British players in the South of France around that time; contemporaries at the club with League experience were Ted Donaghy, Stan Hillier and Willie Aitken.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Taylor |first=Matthew |year=2010 |title=Football's Engineers? British Football Coaches, Migration and Intercultural Transfer, c.1910–c.1950s |journal=Sport in History |volume=32 |issue=5 |pages=138–163 |doi=10.1080/17460261003617011 |s2cid=143758531 | quote=Cornelius's connections were doubtless significant in the move of two other former Erith and Belvedere players, Stan Hillier and John Coshall, to AS Cannes at around the same time}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Soccer History| issue=18|title=The French Menace; The Migration of British Players to France in the 1930s |pages=19–20}}</ref>

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