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Jeffrey Lawrence Hemmerman (born 25 February 1955) is an English former
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. A
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, he scored 77 goals in 257 league games in a ten-year career in the
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with
Hull City Hull City Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. They compete in the , the second level of the English football league system. They play their home ...
,
Scunthorpe United Scunthorpe United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England. The team competes in the National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system. The club was formed in ...
,
Port Vale Port Vale Football Club are a professional football club based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, which compete in , the third tier of the English football league system. Vale are named after the valley of ports on the Trent and Mersey Canal ...
,
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, and
Cardiff City Cardiff City Football Club () is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It currently competes in , the third tier of the English football league system in the 2025–26 season following relegation. Founded in 1899 a ...
. He was promoted out of the Fourth Division with Portsmouth in 1979–80, and then won promotion out of the Third Division with Cardiff City in 1982–83.


Career

Hemmerman came through the youth ranks at
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as
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's "Tigers" ended the 1973–74 season in ninth place in the
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, and then went on to finish the 1974–75 season in eighth place under the stewardship of John Kaye. He was
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ed out to
Scunthorpe United Scunthorpe United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England. The team competes in the National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system. The club was formed in ...
in the 1975–76 campaign and scored one goal in five Fourth Division games at the
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. He was Hull's top-scorer in the 1976–77 season with seven goals. He scored ten goals in 59 league games during his four seasons at
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. Hemmerman signed with
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's
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in June 1977. He scored on his debut on 20 August, converting a
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in a 3–1 defeat to Chesterfield at
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. Two weeks later he claimed both goals in a 2–1 win over Lincoln City, but fell out of the first-team picture and ended the 1977–78 season with six goals in 20 league and cup appearances as the "Valiants" were
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out of the Third Division under Bobby Smith's stewardship. He moved to
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's
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on a free transfer in May 1978. Hemmerman finished as top-scorer in the 1978–79 campaign with 16 goals, as "Pompey" finished three places outside the Fourth Division
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places. Under the stewardship of new boss
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, promotion was secured with a fourth-place finish in 1979–80. They missed out on a second successive promotion by six points and three places in 1980–81 but then dropped back into mid-table in 1981–82. Hemmerman scored 40 goals in 123 league games during his spell at
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. He moved to
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's
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. He was the "Bluebirds" top-scorer in the 1982–83 Third Division promotion season with 26 goals in all competitions. However, he suffered a severe
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injury against
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, and though he attempted a comeback the following year he struggled to regain form and fitness and subsequently retired from professional football at
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. He was awarded a
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in December 1984 when Cardiff played
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.


Post-retirement

After retiring, he trained as a
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and worked for
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before setting up his own rehabilitation clinic in
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Career statistics


Honours

Portsmouth *
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fourth-place promotion: 1979–80 Cardiff City *
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second-place promotion: 1982–83


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hemmerman, Jeff 1955 births Living people Footballers from Kingston upon Hull English men's footballers Men's association football forwards Hull City A.F.C. players Scunthorpe United F.C. players Port Vale F.C. players Portsmouth F.C. players Cardiff City F.C. players English Football League players Cardiff City F.C. non-playing staff Association football physiotherapists British physiotherapists 20th-century English sportsmen