Personal information | |||
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Full name | Joel Toby Senior [1] | ||
Date of birth | 24 June 1999 | ||
Place of birth | Didsbury, England | ||
Position(s) | Right back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Bristol Rovers | ||
Number | 2 | ||
Youth career | |||
2004–2014 | Oldham Athletic | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014–2015 | Hough End | ||
2015–2017 | Maine Road | ||
2017–2019 | F.C. United of Manchester | 58 | (0) |
2019 | Curzon Ashton | 10 | (0) |
2019–2020 | Burnley | 0 | (0) |
2020–2022 | Altrincham | 61 | (0) |
2022–2023 | Carlisle United | 17 | (1) |
2023–2024 | Morecambe | 43 | (1) |
2024– | Bristol Rovers | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:46, 10 August 2024 (UTC) |
Joel Toby Senior (born 24 June 1999) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right back for EFL League One club Bristol Rovers. [2]
Senior was born in Didsbury. [3] His brothers are also footballers, who played in non-league for Maine Road. [3]
Senior spent nearly a decade with Oldham Athletic, but was released at the age of 15 for being too small. [3] He later described it was the worst day of his life. [3] He began playing non-league football around Greater Manchester, initially with Sunday league team Hough End. [3] At the age of 16 he was playing for Maine Road and working two days a week in an engineering and design company. [3] He then made 68 appearances in all competitions for F.C. United of Manchester, [4] including 58 league appearances, [5] before moving to Curzon Ashton in February 2019, [6] for whom he made ten league appearances in National League North. [5]
In May 2019 he signed a 12-month contract with Premier League club Burnley, with the option of a further year, with the intention that he would initially play with their under-23 team. [3] [7] [8]
He was released by Burnley at the end of the 2019–20 season. [9] He later signed for Altrincham. [10] He signed for Carlisle United in January 2022. [11]
On 30 May 2023, after Carlisle won promotion to League One, Carlisle manager Paul Simpson announced that Senior would be released once his contract expired. [12]
In June 2023, it was announced that he would sign for League Two side Morecambe on a one-year deal from 1 July 2023. [13] Following a successful first season, Senior was named as Morecambe's Player of the Year, also winning Players' Player of the Season. [14] Despite having been offered a new contract, he opted to depart the club at the end of the 2023–24 season. [15]
On 29 June 2024, Senior agreed to join League One side Bristol Rovers on a two-year deal with the option for a further season. [16] [17]
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Curzon Ashton | 2018–19 [18] | National League North | 10 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | ||
Altrincham | 2020–21 [18] | National League | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 41 | 0 | |
2021–2 [18] | National League | 21 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 1 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 25 | 0 | ||
Total | 61 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 66 | 0 | ||
Carlisle United | 2021–22 [19] | League Two | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 [lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 5 | 0 |
2022–23 [20] | League One | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 [lower-alpha 3] | 0 | 16 | 1 | |
Total | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 1 | ||
Morecambe | 2023–24 [21] | League Two | 43 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 [lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 50 | 1 |
Career total | 131 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 147 | 2 |
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