{{short description|English footballer and manager}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Stan Hillier | image = Équipe de Cannes à son arrivée gare de Lyon 1932 (cropped) - Stan Hillier.jpg | caption = Hillier with the Cannes team at Gare de Lyon in 1932 | fullname = Stanley Hillier | birth_date = {{birth-date|1904}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = | height = | position = Inside left | years1 = –1924 | clubs1 = Erith & Belvedere | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1924–1926 | clubs2 = Bradford City | caps2 = 11 | goals2 = 2 | years3 = 1926–1928 | clubs3 = Gillingham | caps3 = 26 | goals3 = 4 | years4 = 1928–1934 | clubs4 = AS Cannes | caps4 = | goals4 = | totalcaps = 37 | totalgoals = 6 | manageryears1 = 1932–1934 | managerclubs1 = AS Cannes | manageryears2 = 1938–1939 | managerclubs2 = FC Nancy }} '''Stanley Hillier''' (born 1904) was an English professional football player and manager.
==Career== Hillier was born in London in 1904.<ref name="frost 399">{{cite book |last=Frost |first=Terry |title=Bradford City: A Complete Record 1903–1988 |publisher=Breedon Books Sport |page=399 |date=1988 |isbn=0-907969-38-0}}</ref> He played football for Erith & Belvedere, before joining Bradford City in May 1924.<ref name="frost 399"/> He made 11 first-team appearances with Bradford scoring two goals, all in the Football League,<ref>Frost, p. 383.</ref> before joining Gillingham in December 1926.<ref name="frost 399"/> He played for Gillingham until 1928, making 26 appearances and scoring four goals.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brown |first=Tony |title=The Definitive Gillingham F.C.: A Complete Record |publisher=Soccerdata |date=2003 |isbn=1-899468-20-X}}</ref>
Hillier then emigrated in France, playing for Cannes. He became Cannes manager after William Aitken left,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aitken quitte Cannes |url=https://www.retronews.fr/journal/paris-soir/09-juin-1934/4/a768e9f2-066a-4b4d-aa25-6540f16e430a |access-date=17 March 2025 |website=RetroNews.fr - Le site de presse de la BnF |publisher=Paris-soir |page=4/12 |language=FR |publication-date=9 June 1934}}</ref> from 1934 to 1938.<ref>{{cite web |last=Garin |first=Erik |date=12 July 2007 |title=France – Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs |url=https://www.rsssf.org/players/trainers-fran-clubs.html |accessdate=18 October 2016 |publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF)}} Careful, dates are incorrect here!</ref> He also managed Nancy in 1938-39.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 August 1939 |title=Nancy 1939-40 meilleur que Nancy 1938-1939 |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7214939c/f4.item.r=(prOx:%20%22hillier%22%2020%20%22nancy%22).zoom |access-date=17 March 2025 |website=Gallica |publisher=Football |language=FR |publication-date=30 August 1939}}</ref>
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