Alan Ridley 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.
Ridley was voted in the Wests Tigers Team of the Century and the Western Suburbs Magpies Team of the Century.
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