David Wright (footballer)

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David Wright
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Personal information
Full name David Wright[1]
Date of birth (1980-05-01) 1 May 1980 (age 44)[2]
Place of birth Warrington, England
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Position(s) Defender
Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Colchester United (assistant manager)
Youth career
0000–1997 Crewe Alexandra
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2004 Crewe Alexandra 211 (3)
2004–2007 Wigan Athletic 45 (0)
2005 → Norwich City (loan) 5 (0)
2007–2010 Ipswich Town 120 (5)
2010–2013 Crystal Palace 51 (0)
2012 → Gillingham (loan) 7 (0)
2013–2014 Colchester United 49 (1)
Total 488 (9)
Managerial career
2015 Maldon & Tiptree
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David Wright (born 1 May 1980) is an English former professional footballer and manager who is the assistant manager of English club Colchester United.

Wright began his playing career at Crewe Alexandra, where he helped the club to promotion to the First Division in 2002–03 following the clubs relegation to the Second Division in the previous season. He went on the make over 200 league appearances for the club. He also played over 100 league games for Ipswich Town between 2007 and 2010, as well as representing Wigan Athletic, Norwich City on loan, Crystal Palace, Gillingham on loan and Colchester United.

In 2013, Wright took on his first coaching role at the Ipswich Town Academy, before taking on a similar role at Colchester while also managing Isthmian League side Maldon & Tiptree in 2015. He left the Jammers in December 2015 to team up with new Colchester United manager Kevin Keen as his assistant.

Club career

Crewe Alexandra

Born in Warrington,[2] Wright rose through the youth team ranks at Crewe Alexandra,[3] making his first-team debut for the Railwaymen in August 1997 as a late substitute during a 2–0 away win against Norwich City. He made three First Division appearances during the 1997–98 season,[4] and established himself in the following season, making 20 league appearances and a substitute appearance in the League Cup. He scored his first goal during the 1998–99 season when he netted the opening goal in a 5–1 thrashing of West Bromwich Albion on 5 April 1999.[5]

Wright went on to make 213 league appearances for Crewe in his seven years with the club. On the back of relegation to the Second Division in 2002, Wright helped the club gain immediate promotion back to Division One after finishing in the runners-up spot.[3]

Wigan Athletic

In June 2004, Wright signed for Wigan Athletic for an undisclosed fee in the region of £250,000.[3] Making 31 Championship appearances in the 2004–05 season, he again experienced promotion, on this occasion to the Premier League.[6] However, Wright found himself out of favour in his second season, and having not made a league appearance, he joined Norwich City on a one-month loan deal in November 2005.[7]

Wright made five appearances for the Canaries before returning to Wigan.[8] Following his loan spell, Wright made his Premier League bow for the Latics, replacing Leighton Baines at left back after 66 minutes in what ended as a 3–0 home defeat to Blackburn Rovers on 31 December 2005.[9] He made one further appearance in the 2005–06 season, starting in an away game at Birmingham City two days after his last appearance. Wigan were defeated 2–0 as Wright played the full 90 minutes.[10]

The 2006–07 season saw Wright make 12 Premier League appearances.[11] Wright played his final game for Wigan on New Year's Day 2007, featuring as a substitute in another 3–0 home defeat to Blackburn.[12]

Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town signed Wright from Wigan in January 2007 on a three-and-a-half year deal.[13] He made his Town debut in a 1–0 defeat to Sunderland at the Stadium of Light on 13 January,[14] and in only his second appearance for the club, Wright found himself sent off for handling the ball in Ipswich's 3–2 win over local rivals Colchester United.[15] His only goal of the campaign came in the East Anglian derby against his former side Norwich City, the equalising goal in a 1–1 draw on 22 April.[16]

Wright featured regularly for Town in the 2007–08 season, ending the campaign with 43 appearances in all competitions and scoring two goals;[17] against Bristol City in a 6–0 thrashing[18] and against West Bromwich Albion on New Year's Day 2008.[19]

During the 2008–09 season, although Wright was born in Warrington, England, Scotland and former Ipswich Town manager George Burley was considering selecting Wright for the Scotland national team due to his grandparents Scottish ancestry. However, this never came to fruition.[20][21] Another solid season saw Wright rack up another 36 appearances[22] and score the decisive goal in a 2–1 win against Nottingham Forest on 18 February 2009.[23]

Wright scored the only goal of the game in a match against Derby County on 31 October 2009 to halt manager Roy Keane's winless run of 15 games, in what was the team's first win of the season.[24] Following this, Wright made a further 21 appearances in the 2009–10 season, bringing his total appearance figure for Ipswich to 128 matches.[25]

Crystal Palace

Former Scotland manager George Burley signed Wright for his Crystal Palace side on a two-year contract in June 2010.[26] He made his debut for the Eagles on 14 August 2010 as Palace fell to a 1–0 defeat away at Barnsley.[27] Wright made 29 appearances during the 2010–11 season[28] and made a further 25 appearances in his second season.[29]

Wright played just three games for Palace during the 2012–13 season[30] before joining League Two club Gillingham in September 2012, on loan for one month.[31] He made seven appearances during the spell, and although the club attempted to extend his loan, the deal fell through as it was not confirmed before a 17:00 GMT transfer deadline on 22 November 2012.[32] Following this loan spell, Wright did not make any further appearances for Crystal Palace before leaving the club.[33]

Colchester United

On 25 January 2013, Wright signed for League One club Colchester United on a free transfer.[33] He made his debut for the club in a 2–0 win over Walsall the following day, a win which marked the first points in nine games for the U's.[34]

After ending his first season with Colchester with 12 League One appearances,[30] Wright held down a regular role during the 2013–14 season[35] and scored his first professional goal in four-and-a-half years in Colchester's 4–2 defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux on 25 March 2014.[36] He signed a new one-year contract with the club on 3 July 2014.[37] After making only three substitute appearances in the 2014–15 season, Wright was released from his Colchester contract by mutual consent on 26 November 2014.[38]

Coaching career

While playing for Colchester United, during the summer of 2013, Wright was appointed Academy coach at nearby Ipswich Town, where he coached players in the under-14, under-15 and under-16 age groups. He continued in his role following his contractual release from Colchester in November 2014.[39] He returned to the coaching set-up at Colchester in June 2015, linking up with the club's academy to work under John McGreal. In a dual-coaching role, the move also saw him named as manager of Isthmian League Division One North side Maldon & Tiptree in a development link-up between the two clubs. His role would see him act as a full-time coach with Colchester, while managing Maldon & Tiptree on a part-time basis. Wright said "I'm very excited about the opportunity and I'm really looking forward to it".[40]

After taking charge of Maldon & Tiptree for 25 games, resulting in ten league wins, five draws and ten defeats, Wright was appointed assistant manager to Kevin Keen at Colchester United on 21 December 2015 following Tony Humes exit from the club. Wright left the Jammers in 14th position in the table.[41]

Career statistics

Playing statistics

Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Crewe Alexandra 1997–98[4] First Division 3 0 0 0 0 0 — 3 0
1998–99[5] First Division 20 1 0 1 0 0 — 21 1
1999–2000[42] First Division 45 0 1 0 3 0 — 49 0
2000–01[43] First Division 42 0 2 0 4 0 — 48 0
2001–02[44] First Division 30 0 4 0 0 0 — 34 0
2002–03[45] Second Division 31 1 4 0 1 0 4[lower-alpha 1] 0 40 1
2003–04[46] First Division 40 1 1 0 2 0 — 43 1
Total 211 3 12 0 11 0 4 0 238 3
Wigan Athletic 2004–05[6] Championship 31 0 1 0 0 0 — 32 0
2005–06[8] Premier League 2 0 0 0 2 0 — 4 0
2006–07[11] Premier League 12 0 0 0 1 0 — 13 0
Total 45 0 1 0 3 0 — 49 0
Norwich City (loan) 2005–06[8] Championship 5 0 0 0 0 0 — 5 0
Ipswich Town 2006–07[11] Championship 19 1 1 0 0 0 — 20 1
2007–08[17] Championship 41 2 1 0 1 0 — 43 2
2008–09[22] Championship 34 1 2 0 0 0 — 36 1
2009–10[25] Championship 26 1 1 0 2 0 — 29 1
Total 120 5 5 0 3 0 — 128 5
Crystal Palace 2010–11[28] Championship 28 0 1 0 0 0 — 29 0
2011–12[29] Championship 22 0 1 0 2 0 — 25 0
2012–13[30] Championship 1 0 0 0 2 0 — 3 0
Total 51 0 2 0 4 0 — 57 0
Gillingham (loan) 2012–13[30] League Two 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
Colchester United 2012–13[30] League One 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
2013–14[35] League One 35 1 0 0 1 0 1[lower-alpha 1] 0 36 1
2014–15[47] League One 2 0 0 0 0 0 1[lower-alpha 1] 0 3 0
Total 49 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 52 1
Career total 488 9 20 0 22 0 6 0 536 9
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Appearance(s) in Football League Trophy

Managerial statistics

As of match played 19 December 2015.[48]
Team From To Record
G W D L Win %
Maldon & Tiptree 17 June 2015 21 December 2015 30 11 5 14 36.67

Honours

Crewe Alexandra
Wigan Athletic
All honours referenced by:[49][50]

References

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