Respected by greats such as Pele and Franz Beckenbauer as one of the best defenders to have played the game, Moore is truly a legend of the game.
A product of the West Ham youth system and born in Barking, East Londoner Moore made his first team debut for the Hammers at the age of 17 in September 1958 against Manchester United and soon became a regular in the side.
In 1962, he earned his first call-up into the England squad, a month after taking over as captain of West Ham. Moore, who had been a youth international star, was named in England's pre-tournament squad for the 1962 finals in Chile despite having not won a cap.
After making his international debut in 4-0 friendly defeat of Peru in Lima he was named in the squad for the finals and played in every game before England went out in the quarter-finals. It was a meteoric rise as a player who had just turned 21.
Twelve months later, with usual skipper Jimmy Armfield injured, Moore would be named as England captain for the first time after winning only 12 caps, becoming the country's youngest ever skipper. He took the armband permanently 12 months later, and would wear it for the next 10 years.
His success at international level was mirrored in club football. West Ham won the FA Cup in 1964 and a year later they lifted the European Cup Winners' Cup though a championship would elude him in domestic football.
The 1966 World Cup, played on home soil, was where Moore would be immortalised, eventually lifting the Jules Rimet trophy before a packed Wembley Stadium. The image of Moore holding aloft the trophy remains imprinted in the mind's eye of all English football fans.
Yet Moore almost never made it to the finals, after he refused to sign a new contract with West Ham in a dispute over the sum of £10. Moore would have been ineligible to play in the World Cup as a player without a club and England manager Alf Ramsey had to act as a mediator between Moore and Hammers manager Ron Greenwood. After a meeting at the England team hotel, Moore eventually signed a one-month contract with West Ham to cover the duration of the World Cup.
England won the final with a 4-2 extra-time victory over West Germany at Wembley, but if Geoff Hurst, the hat-trick hero of that final, is to be believed then Moore very nearly didn't play at all. In his autobiography, Hurst claims manager Alf Ramsey was considering dropping Moore and playing Norman Hunter instead. But Moore did play, and would lift the trophy.
Moore was instrumental in England's first goal. He was fouled by Wolfgang Overath, and quickly got up to deliver a perfectly-weighted ball for Hurst to head home what was an equaliser. Moore was named "Player Of Players" for the tournament, recognition of his performances throughout the finals.
"My captain, my leader, my right-hand man," Alf Ramsey said. "He was the spirit and the heartbeat of the team. A cool, calculating footballer I could trust with my life. He was the supreme professional, the best I ever worked with. Without him England would never have won the World Cup."
However, the lead up to the 1970 World Cup finals was to taint Moore's reputation forever. With the finals in Mexico, England travelled to Colombia pre-tournament. But when shopping for a gift for his wife with Bobby Charlton he was accused of the theft of a bracelet from a jeweller in Bogota. He was released without charge, but that would not be the end of the matter.
England played a pre-tournament match against Ecuador in Quito, but had to stop off in Colombia again en route to Mexico. When England's plane touched down Moore was placed under house arrest for four days. Conspiracy theorists believe that it was designed to cause as much disruption to the defending champions' preparations as possible.
While the rest of the England team travelled on to Mexico, Moore was stranded in Bogota. After days of political pressure the case was dropped and he was able to return to the squad. But the stigma of the arrest was always there and it is thought to be the reason why Moore, despite captaining his country to the ultimate sporting success, never received a knighthood.
The scandal did not seem to affect Moore on the pitch at the World Cup. England's second game was against Brazil in the Estadio Jalisco and those in Guadalajara witnessed two of the most iconic moments in the World Cup. There was Gordon Banks' save from Pele, when he seemed to claw the Brazilian's header from behind him at full stretch and force it over the crossbar, and then Moore's superb tackle on Jarzhinio.
Moore had tracked Jairzinho for 20 yards as he ran towards goal and the England skipper produced an inch-perfect tackle to take the ball off Jairzhino's toe just as he expected to be through on Banks. Brazil may have won the game 1-0, but it was two Englishmen who had provided the historic highlights.
The image of Moore and Pele swapping shirts at the end of the match remains of the World Cup's most memorable. Pele, who was determined to get that particular shirt, considered Moore as the greatest defender he had ever played against.
England only made it to the quarter-finals this time, as West Germany gained revenge with a 3-2 extra-time victory. It would be Moore's final appearance at the World Cup as England failed to make it to the 1974 finals.
Moore's form dipped badly in qualifying for the 1974 tournament, and Alf Ramsey, still in charge of the national side, dropped his skipper for a crucial game against Poland which would decide their fate. England infamously drew the game 1-1, with Moore having to watch from the bench, and forfeited a place in West Germany.
The defender's last appearance for England would come in the next international, a 1-0 defeat to Italy in November 1973. Moore won a record 108 caps for his country, which was eventually broken by Peter Shilton, scoring two goals. He remains the outfield player to have started the most England games, with David Beckham's 115 caps including many appearances from the substitutes' bench.
The end of his international days at the age of 32 also marked a change in direction for his club career. Two months later he left West Ham, after a record 544 appearances, and signed for Fulham. He also played for San Antonio Thunder and Seattle Sounders in the United States before hanging up his boots.
Moore moved into management with a marked lack of success. Stints at Oxford City, Eastern AA in Hong Kong and Southend United saw his involvement in the game come to an unfulfilled end.
Moore suffered from cancer three times in his life, beating testicular in his twenties and colon cancer in 1991. But on February 24, 1993, just seven days after commentating on England's 7-1 win over San Marino at Wembley, he died from bowel cancer at the age of just 51. He was the first member of England's World Cup-winning side to die.
"He was my friend as well as the greatest defender I ever played against," said Pele. "The shirt he wore against me in that 1970 match is my prize possession. The world has lost one of its greatest football players and an honourable gentleman."
A 20ft statue in memory of Booby Moore now stands outside the new Wembley Stadium, with Moore looking down Wembley Way.
