Alan Ridley

Alan Ridley

Personal information
Born	1910 Coonamble, New South Wales
Died	24 September 1993 Orange, New South Wales
Playing information
Weight	16 st (100 kg)
Position	Wing
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
19??–??	Queanbeyan
1931–36	Western Suburbs	64	64	1	0	194
	Total	64	64	1	0	194
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1929–36	New South Wales	18	24	0	0	72
1929–36	Australia	5	1	0	0	3
As of 21 July 2009

Alan Ridley (1910-1993) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1920s and '30s. An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative winger, he played club football for Sydney's Western Suburbs, with whom he won the 1934 NSWRFL Premiership. He started his career playing for the Acton Rovers of the Canberra competition. Whilst playing for the Queanbeyan "Blues", he was selected to go on the 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain. He was the 1932 NSWRFL season's top try scorer with 18 tries. Ridley was selected to go on the 1933-34 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain He scored a record 6 tries in a match for the Western Suburbs Magpies in 1934.

Ridley moved to Orange, New South Wales at the end of his rugby league career and later became Mayor of the town. He died there in 1993. He was voted in the Wests Tigers Team of the Century and the Western Suburbs Magpies Team of the Century.