Joel Senior (footballer, born 1999)

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Joel Senior
Personal information
Full name Joel Toby Senior [1]
Date of birth (1999-06-24) 24 June 1999 (age 24)
Place of birth Didsbury, England
Position(s) Right back
Team information
Current team
 Morecambe
Number 12
Youth career
2004–2014 Oldham Athletic
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(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– Morecambe 41 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:40, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Joel Toby Senior (born 24 June 1999) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right back for Morecambe. [2]

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Early and personal life

Senior was born in Didsbury. [3] His brothers are also footballers, who played in non-league for Maine Road. [3]

Career

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 Morecambe on 1 July 2023. [13]

Honours

Carlisle United

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References

  1. ↑ "EFL squad list 2021/22 & U21 registered contracted players" (PDF). English Football League. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
  2. ↑ Joel Senior at Soccerbase
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tyrone Marshall (22 May 2019). "The incredible story of Manchester footballer Joel Senior's rise from non-league to Premier League". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  4. ↑ "Profile". FC United.ru. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  5. 1 2 Joel Senior at Soccerway. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  6. ↑ "Joel Senior makes Curzon Ashton switch". The Non-League Football Paper. 28 February 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  7. ↑ "Senior Service For New Boy Joel". Burnley F.C. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  8. ↑ Adam Lord (16 May 2019). "Burnley sign Curzon Ashton right back Joel Senior". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  9. ↑ "Clubs publish 2019/20 released lists". www.premierleague.com.
  10. ↑ "Joel Senior | Altrincham Football Club". www.altrinchamfc.com.
  11. ↑ "Carlisle sign Altrincham defender Senior". BBC Sport.
  12. ↑ "Manager: Some tough decisions to make". Carlisle United Football Club. 30 May 2023.
  13. ↑ "Morecambe sign defender Senior after Carlisle exit" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  14. ↑ "Carlisle United 1–1 Stockport County (5–4 pens)". BBC Sport. 28 May 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
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