Wilson Jones (footballer)

For other people of the same name, see Wilson Jones (disambiguation).

Wilson Jones

File:1946 AIK-Birmingham ity FC.jpg Jones (r.) in a game against Swedish club AIK Fotboll in 1946
Personal information
Full name	Charles Wilson Jones
Date of birth	(1914-04-29)29 April 1914
Place of birth	Wrexham, Wales
Date of death
Place of death	Birmingham, England
Position(s)	Centre forward
Youth career
1930–1932	Brymbo Green
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1932–1934	Wrexham	6	(3)
1934–1947	Birmingham	135	(63)
1947–1948	Nottingham Forest	7	(5)
1948–1949	Kidderminster Harriers
International career
1935–1939	Wales	2	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Charles Wilson Jones (29 April 1914 – 9 January 1986) was a Welsh international footballer who played as a centre forward for Wrexham, Birmingham and Nottingham Forest in the Football League.

He was Birmingham's top scorer on three occasions in the First Division in the 1930s. He won two caps for Wales, the first on 27 March 1935 against Northern Ireland at the Racecourse Ground, Wrexham, when he scored the first goal in a 3–1 win, and the second on 20 May 1939, a 1–1 draw against France in Paris.

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