Matt Carmichael (footballer)

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Matt Carmichael
Personal information
Full name Matthew Carmichael
Date of birth (1964-05-13) 13 May 1964 (age 60)
Place of birth Singapore
Position(s) Forward, Defender
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Durrington Rangers
Salisbury City
1987–1988 Wycombe Wanderers
Bromley
Basingstoke Town
1989–1993 Lincoln City 133 (18)
1993–1995 Scunthorpe United 62 (20)
1994Barnet (loan) 3 (0)
1994–1995 Preston North End 10 (3)
1995–1996 Mansfield Town 1 (1)
1995–1996 Doncaster Rovers 27 (4)
1995–1996 Darlington 13 (2)
1996 TPS Turku 4 (1)
1996–1997 Aylesbury United
1997–1998 Ilkeston Town
1998–1999 Stamford
1998–1999 Boston United
1999–2000 Grantham Town
1999–2000 Stamford
2000–2001 Wisbech Town
2000–2001 Lincoln United
Managerial career
2012 Lincoln Moorlands Railway
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of Brantham Athletic

Matthew Carmichael (born 13 May 1964) is an English former footballer who played 249 games in the Football league, scoring 48 times.

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League career

A PT instructor in the Royal Artillery, Carmichael signed for Lincoln City on a month's trial in 1989. [1] Thrust straight into Lincoln's first team at centre-forward, Carmichael responded by scoring, on his debut against Scunthorpe United. [1] In his second season at the club, Carmichael made occasional appearances at centre-half as well as centre-forward and spent both the 1991–1992 and 1992–1993 seasons as a virtual ever present at the heart of Lincoln's defence. In 1991/92 he was Lincoln's Player of the Season. [1] In the summer of 1993 he left Lincoln for Scunthorpe United, in a part-exchange deal with Dave Hill. [2]

Restored to the forward line at Scunthorpe, Carmichael scored a total of 24 goals, with 18 in the league, during a highly successful 1993–1994 season. He also established a club record when between 28 December 1993 and 19 February 1994 he scored in eight successive matches. [3] However, he struggled to maintain such form the following season and joined Barnet on a month's loan in September 1994 before joining Preston North End in March 1995 for the remainder of the season, briefly playing alongside a young David Beckham.

He made a solitary, goalscoring, appearance for Mansfield Town at the start of the 1995–1996 season before linking up with Doncaster Rovers and then, at the end of February, Darlington. He helped Darlington reach the 1996 Endsleigh League Division Three play-off final where they were defeated 1–0 by Plymouth Argyle on 25 May 1996 at Wembley Stadium.

Post League career

Following his release by Darlington, Carmichael played four games for TPS Turku in the Finnish Veikkausliiga, and he scored one goal for them, on 30 June 1996 against HJK Helsinki. [4] He then joined Aylesbury United, and he scored on his debut for them in the 2–1 away defeat to Hitchin Town on 17 August 1996. His last game for the Ducks was on 12 April 1997 against Heybridge Swifts. [5] Carmichael then linked up with Ilkeston Town, under the management of the man who transferred him from Lincoln, Keith Alexander.

Carmichael later played for Boston United in the 1998/99 season (where he scored 20 times in 34 matches), and had a 10-game spell with Grantham Town in the 1999–2000 season. [5]

He later joined Wisbech Town, then under the management of his former Boston United teammate Ian Stringfellow, debuting in the 1–1 home draw with Histon on 26 September 2000. However, after just five league games and one goal for the Fenman, financial constraints saw six of the squad, Carmichael included, depart the club following the 2–0 home defeat to Newport IOW on 21 October 2000. Carmichael moved on to Lincoln United but a persistent back injury curtailed his appearances and he wound his career down with various clubs in the Lincoln & District Sunday League. [6]

After being kit manager at Lincoln City he was appointed in May 2012 as manager at Lincoln Moorlands Railway [7] but he left the club after three months. [8]

References/Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Carmichael in". Lincoln City F.C. Official Website. 25 April 2007. Retrieved 21 February 2011.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. "Matt Carmichael (1989/90 – 1992/93)". The Official Archive. Lincoln City Football Club. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  3. "Historical landmarks". Scunthorpe United F.C. Official Website. 25 May 2008. Archived from the original on 8 August 2008. Retrieved 9 September 2008.
  4. Hammond, Mike, ed. (1997). The European Football Yearbook 1997/98. Sports Projects Ltd. ISBN   0-946866-42-2.
  5. 1 2 "Matt Carmichael Playing Profile and Playing Career". Aylesburyunitedfc.co.uk. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
  6. A number of sources list Carmichael as having gone on to play for the likes of Little Oakley, Harwich & Parkeston, Wivenhoe Town, Maldon Town and Halstead Town. This is a case of mistaken identity with the former Norwich City youth player Matt Carmichael.
  7. "Carmichael Takes Moorlands Helm". NonLeagueDaily.com. 19 May 2012. Archived from the original on 30 January 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  8. "Carmichael Departs Moorlands". NonLeagueDaily.com. 24 August 2012. Archived from the original on 30 January 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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