William Clifford Nugent (3 March 1929 – 17 February 2018) was an English professional footballer.
Nugent was playing non-league football for Headington United when Cardiff City manager Cyril Spiers spotted him and brought him to Ninian Park in January 1951.
He helped the club avoid relegation on the final day of the season in the next season but injury ruled him out for all but one game during the 1955-56 campaign, making an incredible return the next year by scoring a hattrick during a 7-0 thrashing of Barnsley.
[1] Nugent left the club in November 1958 and signed for Mansfield Town where he spent two years before moving into non-league football with Weymouth.
This biographical article related to association football in England, about a midfielder born in the 1920s, is a stub.