Personal information | |||
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Full name | Stuart James Wardley | ||
Date of birth | 10 September 1975 | ||
Place of birth | Cambridge, England | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Saffron Walden Town | |||
1997–1998 | Bishops Stortford | ||
1998–1999 | Saffron Walden Town | ||
1999–2002 | Queens Park Rangers | 87 | (14) |
2002 | → Rushden & Diamonds (loan) | 18 | (4) |
2002–2004 | Rushden & Diamonds | 39 | (6) |
2004 | Torquay United | 7 | (2) |
2004–2005 | Leyton Orient | 6 | (0) |
2005 | Cambridge United | 3 | (0) |
2005 | Saffron Walden Town | ||
2005 | Bedford Town | ||
2009–2012 | Haverhill Rovers | ||
2013–2018 | Saffron Walden Town | ||
Managerial career | |||
2008 | Bishop's Stortford Swifts | ||
2013–2018 | Saffron Walden Town | ||
2019 | Haverhill Rovers | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Stuart James Wardley (born 10 September 1975, in Cambridge) is an English former professional football midfielder.
Wardley played for non-league Saffron Walden Town, Bishops Stortford and Saffron Walden again, [1] while working as removals, before joining Queens Park Rangers in July 1999 for a fee of £15,000. [2] His debut came on 7 August 1999 when he was a late substitute, for Jermaine Darlington in Rangers' 3–1 win at home to Huddersfield Town. [3]
In January 2002, Wardley joined Rushden & Diamonds on loan, signing on a free transfer in April 2002. [4] He missed most of the 2003–04 season due to a serious knee injury. [5] He played pre-season for Bishop Stortford [6] and in August 2004 joined Torquay United on a one-month contract. [7] He signed a three-month contract extension in September 2004, [8] but left in October 2004 to join Leyton Orient. [9] He moved to Cambridge United on non-contract terms in January 2005, [10] playing just three times before being released after a month. He had a trial with Rushden in February 2005, but was not offered a contract. [11]
He played for Saffron Walden Town [12] before signing for Bedford Town in March 2005. [13] He left Bedford at the end of the season. [14]
In 2008, he was appointed as joint-manager of Bishops Stortford Swifts. [15]
In September 2008, he was playing for Debden, and from the start of the 2009 season he has played for Haverhill Rovers, scoring on his debut for the club in a 1–1 draw with Dereham Town. In 2012, he re-signed for Saffron Walden as a player-coach. [16] He was appointed joint manager of the club alongside Colin Wallington in 2013, and became sole manager of the club in 2014. In September 2018 he left the club. [17]
On 6 February 2019, Wardley was announced as the new manager of Haverhill Rovers. [18] However, he resigned from the role in May. [19]
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