Steve Jones (footballer, born December 1970)

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Steve Jones
Personal information
Full name Stephen Robert Jones [1]
Date of birth (1970-12-25) 25 December 1970 (age 52)
Place of birth Bristol, England
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Wotton Rovers ? (?)
Fairford Town ? (?)
Forest Green Rovers ? (?)
1994–1995 Cheltenham Town ? (?)
1995–2001 Swansea City 146 (4)
2001–2003 Cheltenham Town 10 (0)
2003 Forest Green Rovers 11 (0)
2003–2009 Bath City 242 (6)
2009–2013 Bishop's Cleeve
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Stephen Robert Jones (born 25 December 1970) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Swansea City and Cheltenham Town.

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Career

Jones played locally in Gloucestershire for Wotton Rovers as well as for Fairford Town before joining Forest Green Rovers. He then joined Cheltenham Town before earning a £25,000 move to Swansea City. He was part of the Swansea side that reached the Third Division play-off final in the 1996–97 season and the following season overcame a broken leg to help Swansea reach the play-offs again under manager John Hollins. In the following 1999–2000 season Jones featured heavily again as Swansea were crowned Third Division champions. [2]

In 2001, Jones returned to Cheltenham Town who were now in the Football League however he was again hit by injuries including another broken leg and in 2003 he was released by manager Bobby Gould.

Jones then returned to Forest Green Rovers who were by now competing in the Conference National. [3] Jones made just 11 appearances for Forest Green under manager Colin Addison. [4]

He then moved to Twerton Park to sign for Bath City where he made 242 appearances between 2003 and 2009 before being released. [5]

He then signed for Southern League side Bishops Cleeve in the summer of 2009. [6] Following the departure of long serving manager Paul Collicutt at the end of the 2010/11 season, Jones was elevated to player-assistant manager following the promotion of Alex Sykes to manager. He left the club, alongside Sykes, in April 2013. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2003). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2003/2004. Queen Anne Press. p. 233. ISBN   9781852916510.
  2. ↑ "Past Players". swanseacity.net. 1 May 2008.
  3. ↑ "Team-by-team guide". The Telegraph. 5 August 2003.
  4. ↑ "The A-Z of all Rovers Conference Players". forestgreenroversfc.co.uk.
  5. ↑ "Past Players". ilovebathcity.com. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011.
  6. ↑ "Ex-Robin Jones to make Cleeve debut". thisisgloucestershire. 21 July 2009.
  7. ↑ "Sykes quits as Bishop's Cleeve boss". Non League Daily. 30 April 2013.
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