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{{Short description|English footballer and manager}}
{{Other people|James Case}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name           = Jimmy Case
| image          = Jimmy Case 2024.jpg
| full_name      = James Robert Case<ref name=Hugman>{{Hugman|3218|access-date=5 April 2020}}</ref>
| birth_date     = {{birth date and age|df=y|1954|5|18}}<ref name=Hugman/>
| birth_place    = [[Liverpool]],<ref name=Hugman/> England
| height         = {{height|ft=5|in=9}}<ref>{{cite book |title=Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88 |editor-first=Peter |editor-last=Dunk |publisher=Queen Anne Press |location=London |date=1987 |page=[https://archive.org/details/rothmansfootball00lond/page/336 336] |isbn=978-0-356-14354-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/rothmansfootball00lond/page/336}}</ref>
| position       = [[Midfielder]]
| youthyears1    =
| youthclubs1    = [[South Liverpool F.C.|South Liverpool]]
| years1         = 1973–1981
| clubs1         = [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]]
| caps1          = 186
| goals1         = 23
| years2         = 1981–1985
| clubs2         = [[Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.|Brighton & Hove Albion]]
| caps2          = 127
| goals2         = 10
| years3         = 1985–1991
| clubs3         = [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]]
| caps3          = 215
| goals3         = 10
| years4         = 1991–1992
| clubs4         = [[AFC Bournemouth]]
| caps4          = 40
| goals4         = 1
| years5         = 1992–1993
| clubs5         = [[Halifax Town A.F.C.|Halifax Town]]
| caps5          = 21
| goals5         = 2
| years6         = 1993
| clubs6         = [[Wrexham A.F.C.|Wrexham]]
| caps6          = 4
| goals6         = 0
| years7         = 1993
| clubs7         = [[Wanneroo City SC|Wanneroo British]]
| caps7          = ?
| goals7         = ?
| years8         = 1993
| clubs8         = [[Darlington F.C.|Darlington]]
| caps8          = 1
| goals8         = 0
| years9         = 1993
| clubs9         = [[Sittingbourne F.C.|Sittingbourne]]
| caps9          = 5
| goals9         = 0
| years10        = 1993–1996
| clubs10        = [[Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.|Brighton & Hove Albion]]
| caps10         = 32
| goals10        = 0
| years11        = 1997–1998
| clubs11        = [[Bashley F.C.|Bashley]]
| caps11         = 6
| goals11        = 0
| totalcaps      = 637
| totalgoals     = 46
| nationalyears1 = 1976
| nationalteam1  = [[England national under-21 football team|England U23]]
| nationalcaps1  = 1
| nationalgoals1 = 1
| manageryears1  = 1995–1996
| managerclubs1  = [[Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.|Brighton & Hove Albion]]
| manageryears2  = 1997–1999
| managerclubs2  = [[Bashley F.C.|Bashley]]
}}

'''James Robert Case''' (born 18 May 1954) is an English retired professional [[association football|footballer]] who played as a [[midfielder]]. He gained national prominence with [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] in the 1970s and early 1980s.

==Early life==
Case was brought up in [[Allerton, Merseyside|Allerton]] and was a distant neighbour of musician [[Paul McCartney]] on the council estate which had been built in the interwar years.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rippon |first=Anton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9hIZEAAAQBAJ&dq=jimmy+case+paul+mccartney&pg=PT208 |title=Liverpool: The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives |date=2021-01-13 |publisher=White Owl |isbn=978-1-5267-6779-0 |language=en}}</ref> He was a keen member of the local scouts. As a teenager he was quite small for his age.

Although small in stature, Case graduated through the schools' teams and then joined a tough dockers' side, Blue Union. The physical nature of these early games would affect the rest of his football career.

Upon leaving school, Case served an apprenticeship as an electrician and continued with this even after signing for [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] and playing in their [[Liverpool F.C. Reserves|reserves]].

Those who knew Case as a teenager were amazed at his physical transformation. He always had determination, but by the time he left South Liverpool he had a physical stature and height that belied his earlier years.

Case was also training to become an electrician, working all day but training with Liverpool two mornings and two nights a week.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thesetpieces.com/interviews/interview-jimmy-case/|title = Interview: Jimmy Case|date = 12 February 2015}}</ref>

==Playing career==

===Liverpool===
Case arrived at [[Anfield]] from local non-league club [[South Liverpool F.C.|South Liverpool]] in May 1973 and was given his debut on 26 April 1975 in a league fixture at Anfield against [[Queens Park Rangers F.C.|Queens Park Rangers]]; goals from [[John Toshack]] (2), and [[Kevin Keegan]] made it a winning start for Case as the Reds won 3–1. By 1976 he was a first-choice midfielder who was a prolific goalscorer for someone in his position; his first goal for the club came in the 68th minute of the 3–2 league win over [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]] at Anfield on 23 August 1975. At the end of his first full season, he helped Liverpool to victory in the [[Football League First Division|League championship]] and the [[UEFA Cup 1975-76#Final|UEFA Cup]], scoring in the first leg of the final of the latter against [[FC Bruges]].

Case maintained his place the following year (1976–77) as Liverpool chased a unique treble of League Championship, FA Cup and European Cup. They were league champions for the second season in a row, but lost in the [[1977 FA Cup Final]] to [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] 2–1. Case was the scorer of Liverpool's goal shortly after their opponents had taken the lead; it was a typical Case goal, a thundering shot from outside the penalty area following a neat turn on the ball. He was in the team again a few days later when Liverpool won the [[1977 European Cup Final]], beating [[Borussia Mönchengladbach]] 3–1 in Rome.

Case won both the League (1978–79, 1979–80) and the European Cup twice more ([[1978 European Cup Final|1978]] against [[Club Brugge]] in the final, [[1981 European Cup Final|1981]] against [[Real Madrid]]) with Liverpool, and added a [[Football League Cup|League Cup]] winners' medal in [[1981 Football League Cup Final|1981]] (against [[West Ham United]] in the final), but in that season he found himself out of favour. Manager Bob Paisley was concerned by Case's close friendship with fellow midfielder [[Ray Kennedy]], with the two regularly embroiled in off-the-pitch escapades—culminating in their both being charged with assault in the spring of 1980<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/merseyside-hardmen-liverpool-fc-legend-3433299|title=Merseyside hardmen: Liverpool FC legend Jimmy was a hard Case but no head case|publisher=Liverpool Echo|date=12 January 2010|access-date=28 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/alanhansen/2329340/Win-limits-fall-out-from-Uniteds-party-shame.html|title=Win limits fall-out from United's party shame|first=Alan|last=Hansen|work=Daily Telegraph|date=24 December 2007|access-date=28 September 2014}}</ref>—and with the emergence of Sammy Lee on the right side of midfield, made the difficult decision to offload Case. Paisley transferred him to [[Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.|Brighton & Hove Albion]] in the summer of 1981.

Case is still highly thought of amongst the [[Kopites|Anfield faithful]], he was voted in at No. 45 in the 2006 poll [[100 Players Who Shook The Kop]] taken by the [http://www.liverpoolfc.tv Official Liverpool Football Club web-site] in which over 110,000 fans worldwide nominated their personal Top 10 players.

Case left Liverpool after a drink-induced fracas with fellow players in a North Wales hotel—which he refers to in his autobiography.

Bob Paisley thought it was time for Jimmy to move on, especially because whenever Case attended a local event, he ended up with dozens of pints on his table, bought by appreciative fans.

Paisley, in his wise way, realised that Case could eventually be brought down by his past and his south Liverpool connections. Paisley lived in Woolton, just under two miles from Jimmy's childhood home.

On leaving Liverpool, Case went from strength to strength by not only becoming an icon at Brighton and Southampton, but also gaining recognition for his intelligent and thoughtful manner.

===Brighton===
Case joined Brighton in August 1981 as a £450,000 makeweight when [[Mark Lawrenson]] went the other way and he played a large part in the success achieved at the [[Goldstone Ground]] in the early 1980s.

With Brighton, Case scored the winning goal at Anfield in the 5th round of the 1983 FA Cup, also scoring in the quarter and semi finals as the Albion reached the final for the only time to date. The game ended 2–2 with Brighton passing up a great opportunity to win the cup when [[Gordon Smith (footballer born December 1954)|Gordon Smith]] hit a shot directly at United keeper [[Gary Bailey]], who pulled off a spectacular save. Brighton's chance of glory had gone, and they were crushed 4–0 in the replay. They had already been relegated from the First Division in bottom place. In spite of this setback, Case remained at the Goldstone Ground for nearly two years after the Seagulls were relegated, including a further FA Cup victory over Liverpool in January 1984.

===Southampton===
In March 1985, Case moved to [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]] for a nominal fee of £30,000 as [[Lawrie McMenemy]]'s last signing for The Saints, to replace [[Steve Williams (midfielder)|Steve Williams]], who had been transferred to [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]] in December 1984. He soon won over any doubters amongst [[The Dell (Southampton F.C.)|The Dell]] fans with some robust tackling. In his first few weeks at the club, they finished fifth in the league, but were then denied [[UEFA Cup]] qualification due to the subsequent ban on English clubs in European competitions, which followed the [[Heysel Disaster]] that year.

When McMenemy quit after the end of the season, Case was appointed club captain by new manager [[Chris Nicholl]].

In his first full season, Saints reached the semi-final of the FA Cup (after beating Case's former club Brighton 2–0 in the quarter-final) losing to Liverpool in an epic game at [[White Hart Lane]] on 5 April 1986, which Liverpool won 2–0 after extra time with both goals coming from [[Ian Rush]]. Victory would have made Case the first player to appear in three FA Cup finals with different clubs.

Over his six years at The Dell, Case lost none of his bite in the tackle and he made up for any loss of pace by a broadening vision and excellent passing skills. Even in his mid thirties, he was still among the most highly regarded midfielders in the First Division.

He was Saints player of the year for 1989–90 and in December 1990 was selected to represent the Football League against the Irish League. In this season Saints finished seventh in the First Division and Saints were playing at close to their best. One particularly memorable match was on 21 October 1989, when Saints defeated Liverpool 4–1, with goals from [[Paul Rideout]], [[Rod Wallace]] (2) and [[Matthew Le Tissier]] in which Case controlled the midfield as The Saints humiliated Case's former club. During his time at The Dell, however, he did not add any major trophies to his list of honours won at Liverpool.

Case played in midfield alongside [[Glenn Cockerill]] and [[Barry Horne (footballer)|Barry Horne]] and helped to bring on the careers of exciting young players such as Le Tissier, [[Alan Shearer]], [[Rod Wallace]] and [[Jason Dodd]]. [[Ian Branfoot]] succeeded Nicholl as manager in June 1991, and considered that the club could dispense with Case's services and he was transferred to [[AFC Bournemouth]] within a few days of Branfoot's appointment, a decision that proved very unpopular with to Saints fans, especially when Case was replaced by the unsuccessful [[Terry Hurlock]], and was one of the key reasons that Branfoot was an unpopular figure with the club's supporters during his two and a half years in charge.

===AFC Bournemouth, Halifax Town, Wrexham & Brighton again===
He moved on to join [[Harry Redknapp]] at Bournemouth and managed to play 40 league games in the 1991–92 season, and was playing in the Third Division for the first time in his whole career.

After a season at Bournemouth, he moved to [[Halifax Town F.C.|Halifax Town]] managed by [[John McGrath (footballer born 1938)|John McGrath]] assisted by [[Frank Worthington]]. He played there for 6 months, before moving on to [[Wrexham A.F.C.|Wrexham]], where he helped them gain promotion from Division Three at the end of the [[1992–93 in English football#Barclays League Division Three|1992–93 season]], while Halifax fell into the [[Football Conference|GM Vauxhall Conference]].

He then turned out for non-league side [[Sittingbourne F.C.|Sittingbourne]] until returning to Brighton in December 1993, firstly as a player/coach before taking over from [[Liam Brady]] as manager in November 1995. He was still playing that season, and at the age of 41 was the oldest outfield player registered with any [[Premier League]] or [[Football League]] club at the time. 46-year-old goalkeeper [[Peter Shilton]] (with [[Coventry City F.C.|Coventry City]] and [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United]]) was the only senior player older than Case at this time, and Shilton's failure to make any competitive appearances that campaign meant that Case was the oldest "active" senior player in England during the season.

He finally announced his retirement from playing on 10 November 1995.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/jimmy-case-retires-through-injury-1581446.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220608/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/jimmy-case-retires-through-injury-1581446.html |archive-date=8 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | work=The Independent | date=11 November 1995 | location=London | title=Jimmy Case Retires Through Injury}}</ref>

==Post-playing career==
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He temporarily managed Brighton, overseeing their relegation to [[Football League Two|Division Three]] in 1996, before being fired in November 1996 when they were bottom of the whole league.

Case later managed non-league [[Bashley F.C.|Bashley]], who played in the [[New Forest]] just a short distance from [[Bournemouth]].

He has been a regular on the veteran players' circuit since giving up playing and used to work for [[Radio Hampshire]] as a Southampton match summariser. Since 2009 he has regularly summarised [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] games for [[BBC Radio Merseyside]], despite continuing to live on the south coast. He also contributes to the station's Red Alert programme at 7.30pm on Friday nights. He has also recently{{when|date=May 2016}} started doing some studio work for the [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] TV station [[LFC TV]].

In 2007, Jimmy and three other members of the 1977 Liverpool European Cup winning team embarked on a series of shows throughout the UK and Ireland to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the victory over Borussia Mönchengladbach. Alongside scorer Tommy Smith, record appearance holder Ian Callaghan and Welsh defender Joey Jones, the shows have so far been well received by both old and young fans and show the enduring popularity of the players who made the club great.

In 2009 Jimmy became the Official Mascot of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130906011720/http://www.theboyspen.co.uk/ The Liverpool Legends Autograph and Memorabilia Group] and is a regular host of the group's "Meet The Legends" events.

His autobiography titled ''Hard Case'' was published in 2014.

==Career statistics==
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|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

|-
!rowspan=2|Club
!rowspan=2|Season
!colspan=3|League
!colspan=2|[[FA Cup]]
!colspan=2|[[EFL Cup|League Cup]]
!colspan=2|Europe
!colspan=2|Other
!colspan=2|Total
|-
!Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals

|-
|rowspan=9|[[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]]
|-
|[[1974–75 Liverpool F.C. season|1974–75]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/GamesPerSeason/278-16 |title=Games played by Jimmy Case in 1974/1975 |publisher=lfchistory.net |access-date=13 October 2022}}</ref>
|[[Football League First Division|First Division]]
|1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||colspan=2|—||1||0
|-
|[[1975–76 Liverpool F.C. season|1975–76]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/GamesPerSeason/278-17 |title=Games played by Jimmy Case in 1975/1976 |publisher=lfchistory.net |access-date=13 October 2022}}</ref>
|First Division
|27||6|||2||0||1||1||9{{efn|name=UEL|Appearances in [[UEFA Europa League|UEFA Cup]]}}||5||colspan=2|—||39||12
|-
|[[1976–77 Liverpool F.C. season|1976–77]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/GamesPerSeason/278-18 |title=Games played by Jimmy Case in 1976/1977 |publisher=lfchistory.net |access-date=13 October 2022}}</ref>
|First Division
|27||1||7||4||1||0||6{{efn|name=UCL|Appearances in [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]]}}||2||1{{efn|name=FCS|Appearances in [[FA Community Shield|Charity Shield]]}}||0||42||7
|-
|[[1977–78 Liverpool F.C. season|1977–78]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/GamesPerSeason/278-19 |title=Games played by Jimmy Case in 1977/1978 |publisher=lfchistory.net |access-date=13 October 2022}}</ref>
|First Division
|33||5||0||0||8||2||9{{efn|name=UCL+ESC1|Appearances in [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] (7 appearances, 4 goals) and [[UEFA Super Cup|Super Cup]] (2 appearances)}}||4||1{{efn|name=FCS|Appearances in [[FA Community Shield|Charity Shield]]}}||0||51||11
|-
|[[1978–79 Liverpool F.C. season|1978–79]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/GamesPerSeason/278-20 |title=Games played by Jimmy Case in 1978/1979 |publisher=lfchistory.net |access-date=13 October 2022}}</ref>
|First Division
|37||7||6||1||1||0||4{{efn|name=UCL+ESC2|Appearances in [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] (2 appearances) and [[UEFA Super Cup|Super Cup]] (2 appearances, 1 goal)}}||1||colspan=2|—||48||9
|-
|[[1979–80 Liverpool F.C. season|1979–80]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/GamesPerSeason/278-21 |title=Games played by Jimmy Case in 1979/1980 |publisher=lfchistory.net |access-date=13 October 2022}}</ref>
|First Division
|37||3||5||1||7||0||2{{efn|name=UCL|Appearances in [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]]}}||1||1{{efn|name=FCS|Appearances in [[FA Community Shield|Charity Shield]]}}||0||52||5
|-
|[[1980–81 Liverpool F.C. season|1980–81]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/GamesPerSeason/278-22 |title=Games played by Jimmy Case in 1980/1981 |publisher=lfchistory.net |access-date=13 October 2022}}</ref>
|First Division
|24||1||2||1||4||0||5{{efn|name=UCL|Appearances in [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]]}}||0||1{{efn|name=FCS|Appearances in [[FA Community Shield|Charity Shield]]}}||0||36||2
|-
!colspan=2|Total
!186||23||22||7||22||3||35||13||4||0||269||46
|-
|rowspan=6|[[Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.|Brighton & Hove Albion]]
|-
|[[1981–82 Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. season|1981–82]]<ref name="ENFA">{{cite web |url=http://www.enfa.co.uk/playersearch.php |title=Player search: Case, JR (Jimmy) |website=English National Football Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=14 October 2022}}</ref>
|First Division
|33||3||2||1||3||0||colspan=2|—||colspan=2|—||38||4
|-
|[[1982–83 in English football|1982–83]]<ref name="ENFA"/>
|First Division
|35||3||8||4||1||0||colspan=2|—||colspan=2|—||44||7
|-
|[[1983–84 in English football|1983–84]]<ref name="ENFA"/>
|[[Football League Second Division|Second Division]]
|35||4||2||0||2||0||colspan=2|—||colspan=2|—||39||4
|-
|[[1984–85 in English football|1984–85]]<ref name="ENFA"/>
|Second Division
|24||0||2||0||2||0||colspan=2|—||colspan=2|—||28||0
|-
!colspan=2|Total
!127||10||14||5||8||0||0||0||0||0||149||15
|-
|rowspan=9|[[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]]
|-
|[[1984–85 in English football|1984–85]]<ref name="SOT">{{cite book|title=In That Number – A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC |last= Holley |first= Duncan |author2=Chalk, Gary |publisher=Hagiology Publishing | year=2003 |isbn=0-9534474-3-X|page=185,190,196,201,206,213,219,491–92}}</ref>
|First Division
|10||1||0||0||0||0||colspan=2|—||colspan=2|—||10||1
|-
|[[1985–86 in English football|1985–86]]<ref name="SOT"/>
|First Division
|36||2||6||0||6||0||colspan=2|—||2{{efn|name=FLSC|Appearances in [[Football League Super Cup|ScreenSport Super Cup]]}}||0||50||2
|-
|[[1986–87 in English football|1986–87]]<ref name="SOT"/>
|First Division
|39||3||0||0||8||1||colspan=2|—||2{{efn|name=FMC|Appearances in [[Full Members' Cup]]}}||1||49||5
|-
|[[1987–88 in English football|1987–88]]<ref name="SOT"/>
|First Division
|38||0||1||0||2||0||colspan=2|—||colspan=2|—||41||0
|-
|[[1988–89 in English football|1988–89]]<ref name="SOT"/>
|First Division
|34||0||2||0||7||1||colspan=2|—||2{{efn|name=FMC|Appearances in [[Full Members' Cup]]}}||0||45||1
|-
|[[1989–90 in English football|1989–90]]<ref name="SOT"/>
|First Division
|33||3||3||0||7||0||colspan=2|—||colspan=2|—||43||3
|-
|[[1990–91 Southampton F.C. season|1990–91]]<ref name="SOT"/>
|First Division
|25||1||3||1||4||0||colspan=2|—||colspan=2|—||32||2
|-
!colspan=2|Total
!215||10||15||1||34||2||0||0||6||1||270||14
|-
|[[AFC Bournemouth|Bournemouth]]
|[[1991–92 in English football|1991–92]]<ref name="SB">{{cite web|url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=1344 |title=Games played by Jimmy Case in 1991/1992 |publisher=soccerbase.com |access-date=14 October 2022}}</ref>
|[[Football League Third Division|Third Division]]
|40||1||5||0||3||0||colspan=2|—||2{{efn|name=FLT|Appearances in [[EFL Trophy]]}}||1||50||2
|-
|[[Halifax Town A.F.C.|Halifax Town]]
|[[1992–93 in English football|1992–93]]<ref name="ENFA"/>
|Third Division
|21||2||1||0||1||0||colspan=2|—||colspan=2|—||23||2
|-
|[[Wrexham A.F.C.|Wrexham]]
|[[1992–93 in English football|1992–93]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wrexhamafcarchive.co.uk/player.php?id=585 |title=Games played by Jimmy Case in 1992/1993 |publisher=wrexhamafcarchive.co.uk |access-date=14 October 2022}}</ref>
|Third Division
|4||0||0||0||0||0||colspan=2|—||colspan=2|—||4||0
|-
|[[Darlington F.C.|Darlington]]
|[[1993–94 in English football|1993–94]]<ref name="SB"/>
|Third Division
|1||0||0||0||0||0||colspan=2|—||colspan=2|—||1||0
|-
|[[Sittingbourne F.C.|Sittingbourne]]
|[[1993–94 Southern Football League|1993–94]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sporting-heroes.net/football/southampton-fc/jimmy-case-7527/league-appearances_a13483/ |title=Games played by Jimmy Case in 1993/1994 |publisher=sporting-heroes.net |access-date=14 October 2022}}</ref>
|[[Southern Football League|Southern Premier Division]]
|5||0||0||0||0||0||colspan=2|—||colspan=2|—||5||0
|-
|rowspan=5|Brighton & Hove Albion
|-
|[[1993–94 in English football|1993–94]]<ref name="ENFA"/>
|Second Division
|21||0||0||0||0||0||colspan=2|—||colspan=2|—||21||0
|-
|[[1994–95 in English football|1994–95]]<ref name="ENFA"/>
|Second Division
|9||0||0||0||2||0||colspan=2|—||colspan=2|—||11||0
|-
|[[1995–96 in English football|1995–96]]<ref name="ENFA"/>
|Second Division
|2||0||0||0||0||0||colspan=2|—||colspan=2|—||2||0
|-
!colspan=2|Total
!32||0||0||0||2||0||0||0||0||0||34||0
|-
|[[Bashley F.C.|Bashley]]
|[[1997–98 Southern Football League|1997–98]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bashleyfc.co.uk/9798apps.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120720055138/http://www.bashleyfc.co.uk/9798apps.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-20 |title=Games played by Jimmy Case in 1997/1998 |publisher=archive.ph |access-date=14 October 2022}}</ref>
|[[Southern Football League|Southern Premier South]]
|6||0||0||0||0||0||colspan=2|—||3{{efn|name=FAT+HSC|Appearances in [[FA Trophy]] (2 appearances) and [[Hampshire Senior Cup]] (1 appearance)}}||0||9||0
|-
!colspan=3|Career total
!637||46||57||13||70||5||35||13||15||1||814||78
|}

{{notelist}}

== Honours ==
'''Liverpool'''<ref name="LFC History">{{cite web|title=Jimmy Case: Liverpool career statistics|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/players/player/profile/278|publisher=L.F.C. History|access-date=26 June 2017}}</ref>
*[[Football League First Division]]: [[1975–76 in English football|1975–76]], [[1976–77 in English football|1976–77]], [[1978–79 in English football|1978–79]], [[1979–80 in English football|1979–80]]
*[[Football League Cup]]: [[1980–81 Football League Cup|1980–81]]
*[[FA Charity Shield]]: [[1976 FA Charity Shield|1976]], [[1977 FA Charity Shield|1977]], [[1979 FA Charity Shield|1979]], [[1980 FA Charity Shield|1980]]
*[[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]]: [[1976–77 European Cup|1976–77]], [[1977–78 European Cup|1977–78]], [[1980–81 European Cup|1980–81]]
*[[UEFA Cup]]: [[1975–76 UEFA Cup|1975–76]]
*[[European Super Cup]]: [[1977 European Super Cup|1977]]
*[[FA Cup]] runner-up: [[1976–77 FA Cup|1976–77]]<ref>{{cite book |first1=Leslie |first2=Jack |last1=Vernon |last2=Rollin |title=Rothmans Football Yearbook 1977–78 |year=1977 |publisher=Brickfield Publications Ltd |location=London |isbn=0354 09018 6 |page=491}}</ref>
*[[UEFA Super Cup|European Super Cup]] runner-up: [[1978 European Super Cup|1978]]

'''Brighton & Hove Albion'''
*FA Cup runner-up: [[1982–83 FA Cup|1982–83]]

'''Individual'''
*[[Bravo Award]]: 1978<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/bravo-awards.html|title=The "Bravo" Award|author1=José Luis Pierrend|date=8 January 2015|website=[[RSSSF]]|access-date=20 November 2015}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

===Bibliography===
*{{cite book |
   author=Jeremy Wilson |
   title=Southampton's Cult Heroes|
   publisher=Know The Score Books |
   year=2006|
   isbn=1-905449-01-1}}
*{{cite book |
   author=Jimmy Case |
   title=Hard Case: The Autobiography of Jimmy Case|
   publisher=John Blake Publishing |
   year=2014|
   isbn=1782199942}}

==External links==
* {{UEFA player}}
* [http://www.thisisanfield.com/columnists/2005/04/forgotten-heroes-jimmy-case/ Thisisanfield.com Forgotten Heroes]
* [http://www.lfchistory.net/player_profile.asp?player_id=278 LFChistory.net profile]
* [https://archive.today/20140928192357/http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/100-pwstk-no-45-jimmy-case 100 Players Who Shook The Kop – Jimmy Case]
* [http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football/liverpool-fc/jimmy-case-7527/biography-of-his-football-career-at-anfield_a11152/ Football heroes Jimmy Case, Liverpool at Sporting-heroes.net]
* [http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football/brighton-hove-albion-fc/jimmy-case-7527/league-appearances-for-the-seagulls_a13482/ Football heroes Jimmy Case, Brighton at Sporting-heroes.net]
* [http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football/southampton-fc/jimmy-case-7527/league-appearances_a13483/ Football heroes Jimmy Case, Southampton at Sporting-heroes.net]
* {{Soccerbase}}
* {{soccerbase (manager)|id=715|name=Jimmy Case}}

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