Joel Allwright

{{short description|Australian professional footballer|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Joel Allwright

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|3|4|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Adelaide, Australia

| height = 180 cm{{cite news|url=http://adelaidecityfc.com.au/allwrights-move-shows-city-credentials/|title=Allwright's move shows City credentials|publisher=Adelaide City FC|date=20 January 2017|accessdate=12 March 2017|archive-date=14 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214195010/http://adelaidecityfc.com.au/allwrights-move-shows-city-credentials/|url-status=dead}}

| position = Full-back, winger

| currentclub = Campbelltown City

| clubnumber = 7

| youthyears1 = 2000–2003

| youthclubs1 = Para Hills Knights

| youthyears2 = 2004–2005

| youthclubs2 = SASI

| youthyears3 = 2006

| youthclubs3 = AIS

| youthyears4 = 2008–2010

| youthclubs4 = Adelaide United

| years1 = 2007–2010

| years2 = 2012–2016

| years3 = 2017

| years4 = 2017–2018

| years5 = 2019–

| clubs1 = Para Hills Knights

| clubs2 = Adelaide City

| clubs3 = Newcastle Jets

| clubs4 = Adelaide City

| clubs5 = Campbelltown City

| caps1 = 65

| caps2 = 124

| caps3 = 2

| caps4 = 39

| caps5 = 130

| goals1 = 24

| goals2 = 42

| goals3 = 0

| goals4 = 3

| goals5 = 7

| nationalyears1 = 2005

| nationalteam1 = Australia U17

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| club-update = 9 September 2024

| nationalteam-update = 13 March 2017

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Joel Allwright (born 4 March 1988) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a full-back or winger for Campbelltown City in the National Premier Leagues.

Allwright was born in Adelaide and played youth football for South Australian and Australian Institutes of Sport as well as Adelaide United. He started his senior career with Para Hills Knights, where he had played junior football, in the South Australian Super League, before moving to Adelaide City in 2012. In 2017, he joined Newcastle Jets.

Allwright appeared for the Australian under-17 side in 2005, including at the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Playing career

=Club=

In 2007, Allwright travelled to Scotland for a trial with Dundee United.{{cite news|url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league/fed-up-allwright-heads-overseas/news-story/148caab7561f82e5e205597595f7475a|title=Fed up Allwright heads overseas|work=Fox Sports|date=29 March 2007|accessdate=13 March 2017|author=Migliaccio, Val}}

Allwright signed with Newcastle Jets from Adelaide City in January 2017 on a mature-aged rookie contract until the end of the 2016–17 season.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.fourfourtwo.com.au/news/jets-sign-mature-aged-rookie-448185|title=Jets sign mature aged rookie|magazine=FourFourTwo|date=20 January 2017|accessdate=13 March 2017}} He made his debut in a draw in an F3 Derby against Central Coast Mariners on 26 February 2017.{{cite news|url=http://outside90.com/talking-points-newcastle-jets-1-central-coast-mariners-1-are-the-glory-days-returning/|title=Talking Points: Newcastle Jets 1 Central Coast Mariners 1 – Are the glory days returning?|publisher=Outside90.com|date=26 February 2017|accessdate=13 March 2017|author=Fitz, Jack}} He returned to Adelaide City at the end of the Jets' season.{{cite news|publisher=Adelaide City FC|date=14 April 2017|title=Allwright returns|accessdate=24 April 2017|url=http://adelaidecityfc.com.au/aggro-item/853114537687474176/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425033941/http://adelaidecityfc.com.au/aggro-item/853114537687474176/|archive-date=25 April 2017|url-status=dead}}

Honours

=Club=

;Adelaide City

National Premier Leagues South Australia Premiership: 2017
FFSA Federation Cup: 2013, 2014{{cite news|url=http://footballcentral.com.au/allwright-doing-better-than-alright/#.WMXeDFV96Uk|title=Allwright doing better than alright|publisher=FootballCentral.com.au|date=14 June 2014|author=Cussen, Andrew|accessdate=13 March 2017}}