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 25)
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*
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)
2023–2024 Morecambe 43 (1)
2024– Bristol Rovers 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:05, 26 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]

Contents

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 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]

Bristol Rovers

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] In his fourth appearance for the club, a 2–0 defeat to Stockport County, Senior suffered a torn hamstring, likely to rule him out of action for a period of around two months according to manager Matt Taylor. [18]

Career statistics

As of end of 2023–24 season
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeague FA Cup League Cup OtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Curzon Ashton 2018–19 [19] National League North 100——00100
Altrincham 2020–21 [19] National League 40000—1 [lower-alpha 1] 0410
2021–2 [19] National League21030—1 [lower-alpha 1] 0250
Total610300020660
Carlisle United 2021–22 [20] League Two 4000001 [lower-alpha 2] 050
2022–23 [21] League One 13100003 [lower-alpha 3] 0161
Total171000040211
Morecambe 2023–24 [22] League Two43130103 [lower-alpha 2] 0501
Career total13126010901472
  1. 1 2 Appearance(s) in FA Trophy
  2. 1 2 Appearance(s) in EFL Trophy
  3. ↑ Appearance(s) in EFL League Two play-offs

Honours

Carlisle United

Individual

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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. Archived from the original on 27 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. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  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. 1 2 3 "End of Season Awards 2023/24". Morecambe FC. 22 April 2024. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
  15. ↑ "Shrimps confirm retained list". www.morecambefc.com. 20 May 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  16. ↑ "Joel Senior completes Bristol Rovers transfer". www.bristolrovers.co.uk. 29 June 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  17. ↑ "Joel Senior: Bristol Rovers sign right-back from Morecambe". BBC Sport. 29 June 2024.
  18. ↑ Hargraves, Daniel (29 August 2024). "Bristol Rovers injury news ahead of Cambridge United as Gas handed significant double blow". Bristol Post. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  19. 1 2 3 Joel Senior at Soccerway. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  20. ↑ "Games played by Joel Senior in 2021/2022". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  21. ↑ "Games played by Joel Senior in 2022/2023". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  22. ↑ "Games played by Joel Senior in 2023/2024". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  23. ↑ "Carlisle United 1–1 Stockport County (5–4 pens)". BBC Sport. 28 May 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
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