Background
The son of former Bristol City player Don Clark, Brian Clark signed professional terms at the club in March 1960 before making his debut for the club in 1961 during a 3–0 victory over Brentford on the final day of the season.
The son of former Bristol City player Don Clark, Brian Clark signed professional terms at the club in March 1960 before making his debut for the club in 1961 during a 3–0 victory over Brentford on the final day of the season.
He is probably most famous for scoring the only goal in a 1–0 victory for against Real Madrid in the first leg of the European Cup Winners Cup quarter-final in 1971. lieutenant was during the 1962-1963 season that he established himself in the side, finishing as the club"s top scorer with 23 goals. He continued to score regularly for the side and helped the side gain promotion to Division Two during the 1964-1965 season, again finishing as the club"s top scorer with 24 goals.
In October 1966 he left Bristol City to sign for Huddersfield Town in exchange for John Quigley.
Clark failed to settle at the Yorkshire club and, after two years, was snapped up by manager Jimmy Scoular for £8,000. Clark finished as the club"s top scorer for the next two seasons, as well as scoring 5 times in a single match against Barmouth & Dyffryn, falling short of Derek Tapscott"s club record of goals in a game by just one.
The following year he again finished as Cardiff"s top scorer, the third successive year he had done so, before he and Ian Gibson were surprisingly sold to Bournemouth for a combined fee of £100,000. Clark spent one year at Bournemouth, followed by a spell at Millwall.
On 20 January 1974 at The Den Millwall hosted Fulham, in what was the first Football League game ever held on a Sunday.
Clark scored the only goal of the game, thereby becoming the first player to score a Football League goal on a Sunday. He soon returned to Ninian Park to play for Cardiff again. He left the club to sign for Newport County before finishing his career with a number of player-manager roles at several Welsh Football League sides.
Clark died on 10 August 2010 at the age of 67 from Lewy body dementia at Whitchurch Hospital in Cardiff.