William Rigby (9 June 1921 – 1 June 2010) was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
He was born in Chester.
[1] A product of the youth system at his hometown club of Chester,[2] Rigby made his only peacetime first-team appearance for the club in their first post-war match in The Football League in a 4–4 draw at York City on 31 August 1946.
After this he was not selected again, with goalkeeping duties being passed on to George Scales and Jimmy MacLaren.
[3] Earlier he had made appearances for the first-team during the war years, mainly during 1940–41 and 1941–42 while understudy to Bill Shortt.