Simon Royce

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Simon Royce
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Personal information
Full name Simon Ernest Royce [1]
Date of birth (1971-09-09) 9 September 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth Forest Gate, England
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Leyton Orient (goalkeeping coach)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1989–1991 Heybridge Swifts 70 (0)
1991–1998 Southend United 149 (0)
1998–2000 Charlton Athletic 8 (0)
2000–2003 Leicester City 19 (0)
2001–2002 → Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) 6 (0)
2002 → Manchester City (loan) 0 (0)
2002 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 8 (0)
2002–2003 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 8 (0)
2003–2005 Charlton Athletic 1 (0)
2004–2005 → Luton Town (loan) 2 (0)
2005 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 13 (0)
2005–2007 Queens Park Rangers 50 (0)
2007 → Gillingham (loan) 3 (0)
2007–2010 Gillingham 92 (0)
2010–2011 Brentford 2 (0)
2019–2020 Gillingham 0 (0)
Total431(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Simon Ernest Royce (born 9 September 1971) is an English football coach and former professional footballer who is goalkeeping coach at Leyton Orient.

Contents

As a player he was a goalkeeper who played in the Premier League for Charlton Athletic and Leicester City, although he spent the rest of his career in the Football League with notable spells at Southend United, Queens Park Rangers and Gillingham. He also played for Brighton & Hove Albion, Manchester City and Luton Town. Since taking up coaching he has been registered as a back-up player for both Brentford and back with Gillingham.

Playing career

Royce began his career with non-League Heybridge Swifts and after claiming the number one jersey off long standing Albie Bridge while still a teenager soon attracted the interest of many Football League sides. He joined Southend United for a £35,000 fee in October 1991 and became the first Heybridge player to be sold to a professional club. [2] He spent a few seasons as understudy to Paul Sansome before finally establishing himself as the Shrimpers' first choice and a fans' favourite – he played in the successful Southend side in the mid 1990s under Barry Fry and later Peter Taylor before Charlton Athletic manager Alan Curbishley snapped him up on a free transfer. [2] [3] Despite some strong performances in the Premier League, including many clean sheets resulting in setting a post-war club record, injury prevented Royce from establishing himself as regularly as he would have liked and, after the arrival of Dean Kiely, he rejoined former boss Peter Taylor at Leicester City. [4] Some good early form resulted with speculation about an England call-up for new manager Sven-Goran Eriksson's initial squad, [5] however this never materialised and further injuries prevented Royce from making as many first team appearances as he possibly could.

A second spell at Charlton followed before he moved into the lower tiers of the Football League with Queens Park Rangers, Manchester City (on loan), Luton Town (on loan) and Brighton & Hove Albion (on loan) again teaming up with Peter Taylor. [1] During a Stoke City vs QPR game, he was attacked by a Stoke fan. [6]

Royce joined Gillingham in April 2007 as an emergency loan signing after the Kent team were left with no fit goalkeepers for their final three matches of the season, [7] making his debut for Gillingham in the 3–2 home win over Port Vale on 21 April 2007. [8] In August 2007 he joined Gillingham on a free transfer, [9] saying that he intended to see out the rest of his career at Gillingham and his performances in goal won him the Supporters' Player of the Year award for the 2007–08 season. [10] [11] He was first choice goalkeeper at Gillingham again in the promotion season of 2008–09 and at the beginning of the following season. [12] [13] He was forced out of the team by injuries sustained in a car accident in December 2009 and never regained his place from Alan Julian. [12] [14]

Coaching career

His Gillingham contract expired at the end of that season and although he had been offered a goalkeeper/coach role at Gillingham, [12] he opted in June 2010 to take up the role at Brentford, [15] where he remained until the end of the 2017–18 season. [16]

He returned to Gillingham as a goalkeeping coach in June 2019 [17] and was listed on the bench against Oxford United due to an injury to second-choice keeper Joe Walsh. [18] [19] He is also one of the oldest players to appear in a football video game as an active footballer when he appeared in FIFA 20 , making his first appearance in the series since FIFA 11 . [20] The Kent side announced in June 2020 that Royce would be released when his contract expired the following month. [21] In 2021 Royce joined Leyton Orient as goalkeeping coach under Kenny Jackett.[ citation needed ]

Career statistics

As of match played 28 September 2019
ClubSeasonLeagueFA CupLeague CupOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Southend United 1996–97 [22] First Division 4301010—450
1997–98 [23] Second Division 37020401 [lower-alpha 1] 0440
Total14905090601690
Charlton Athletic 1998–99 [24] Premier League 800000—80
1999–2000 [25] First Division000000—00
Total800000—80
Leicester City 2000–01 [26] Premier League1904010—240
2001–02 [26] Premier League000000—00
2002–03 [27] Premier League000000—00
Total1904010—240
Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) 2001–02 [26] Second Division6000——60
Manchester City (loan) 2001–02 [26] First Division00———00
Queens Park Rangers (loan) 2002–03 [27] Second Division16000001 [28] 0170
Charlton Athletic 2003–04 [29] Premier League100000—10
2004–05 [30] Premier League000000—00
Total900000—90
Luton Town (loan) 2004–05 [30] League One 2000——20
Queens Park Rangers (loan) 2004–05 [30] Championship 130———130
Queens Park Rangers 2005–06 [31] Championship3001010—320
2006–07 [8] Championship2002000—220
Total7903010—830
Gillingham (loan) 2006–07 [8] League One30———30
Gillingham 2007–08 [32] League One33010101 [28] 0360
2008–09 [13] League Two 42030004 [lower-alpha 2] 0490
2009–10 [28] League One170202000210
Total9206030501060
Brentford 2010–11 [33] League One2000000020
2011–12 [34] League One0000000000
Total2000000020
Gillingham 2019–20 [35] League One0000000000
Total9506030501090
Career Total3630180140904040

Honours

Gillingham

Individual

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