Phillip Abraham Woosnam (22 December 1932 – 19 July 2013) was a Welsh association football inside-right and manager.

[2] In November 1958, Woosnam was signed by West Ham United for £30,000 and left his job as a physics teacher at Leyton County High School for Boys to turn professional.

[10] He is credited as an important factor in the development of the NASL, and was a major figure in promoting the league and had secured TV contracts from CBS and ABC.

[12] He played a key role during 1970 in recruiting executives at Warner Communications to invest in an expansion team—the New York Cosmos.

[13] Woosnam oversaw the westward expansion of NASL in the early 1970s, establishing teams in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Seattle, and Vancouver.

[12] Woosnam later became managing director of the marketing arm of US Soccer, and helped bring the 1994 World Cup to the US.

][1] Phil Woosnam died on 19 July 2013 in Dunwoody, Georgia[11] from complications related to prostate cancer and Alzheimer's disease, at the age of 80.