Marc Edworthy
{{Short description|English footballer (born 1972)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2012}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Marc Edworthy
| image = MarcEdworthy02.JPG
| image_size = 200
| caption =
| fullname =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1972|12|24}}
| birth_place = Barnstaple, England
| position = Defender
| youthyears1=
| youthclubs1=
| years1 = 1991–1995
| years2 = 1995–1998
| years3 = 1998–2002
| years4 = 2002–2003
| years5 = 2003–2005
| years6 = 2005–2008
| years7 = 2008–2009
| years8 = 2009
| clubs1 = Plymouth Argyle
| clubs2 = Crystal Palace
| clubs3 = Coventry City
| clubs4 = Wolverhampton Wanderers
| clubs5 = Norwich City
| clubs6 = Derby County
| clubs7 = Leicester City
| clubs8 = Burton Albion
| caps1 = 69
| goals1 = 1
| caps2 = 126
| goals2 = 0
| caps3 = 76
| goals3 = 1
| caps4 = 22
| goals4 = 0
| caps5 = 71
| goals5 = 0
| caps6 = 77
| goals6 = 0
| caps7 = 5
| goals7 = 0
| caps8 = 1
| goals8 = 0
| totalcaps = 447
| totalgoals = 2
}}
Marc Edworthy (born 24 December 1972 in Barnstaple) is an English former professional footballer. He started out playing as a right winger before being moved to right back. He was also occasionally deployed at left back and in central defence.{{cite news| title=Lucky' Edworthy set to quit with no complaints| url=http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/sport/Lucky-Edworthy-set-quit-complaints/article-1440059-detail/article.html| publisher=North Devon Journal| date=22 October 2009| access-date=2010-08-16| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524035457/http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/sport/Lucky-Edworthy-set-quit-complaints/article-1440059-detail/article.html| archive-date=24 May 2010}}
Career
=Plymouth Argyle=
Edworthy began his career with Plymouth Argyle in the 1991–1992 season.
=Crystal Palace=
Edworthy joined Crystal Palace who had just been relegated from the Premiership on 9 June 1995 for £350,000, and in his second season with the Eagles played an integral role in winning promotion to the Premier League. However, the next season Palace finished bottom and were relegated once more; in spite of this the Palace fans acknowledged Edworthy's performances and rewarded him with the supporters player of the year award. He scored once during his spell at Palace, his strike coming against Bury in the League Cup in September 1996.{{cite web
|url=http://archive.lancashireeveningtelegraph.co.uk/1996/9/18/844746.html
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130420232159/http://archive.lancashireeveningtelegraph.co.uk/1996/9/18/844746.html
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=20 April 2013
|title=Shakers give it away: Bury 1, Crystal Palace 3
|publisher=Lancashire Evening Telegraph
|date=17 September 1996
|access-date=16 February 2010
}}
=Coventry City=
On 26 August 1998, he was bought by Premiership side Coventry City for £1,200,000. He scored his first and what turned out to be only goal for Coventry in a 1–1 draw with Manchester City on 1 January 2001.{{cite web
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/1094930.stm
|title=Coventry's Edworthy denies Man City
|publisher=BBC
|date=1 January 2001 |access-date=16 February 2010}} With the Sky Blues he again suffered relegation, this time from the Premiership. He left at the end of the 2001–02 season to join Wolverhampton Wanderers.
=Wolverhampton Wanderers=
Edworthy started his Wolves career on 31 August 2002, helping them earn promotion to the Premier League via the playoffs, but left after just one season to join Norwich City on a free transfer.{{Cite news
| title = Norwich sign Edworthy
| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/norwich/3131503.stm
| publisher = BBC Sport
| date = 2003-08-07
| access-date = 2008-01-12}}
=Norwich City=
In his first season with Norwich City he helped the Canaries win promotion to the Premier League. But again, he suffered relegation when Norwich finished in 19th place.
He left in the summer of 2005 to join Derby County,{{Cite news
| title = Derby swoop for defender Edworthy
| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/d/derby_county/4655327.stm
| publisher = BBC Sport
| date = 2005-07-06
| access-date = 2008-01-12}} after a contract dispute with Norwich manager Nigel Worthington led to him becoming a free agent when his two-year deal expired.{{Citation needed|date=November 2008}}
=Derby County=
He was a member of the Derby squad that won promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs at the end of the 2006–07 season, being voted second in the Player of the Season contest along the way. He was appointed as a club ambassador at Pride Park in 2017.
=Leicester City=
Edworthy signed for Leicester City on 7 November 2008, signing a two-month contract that will see him stay at the club until 6 January 2009.{{cite news|title=Edworthy Joins Foxes |url=http://www.lcfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/LatestNews/0,,10274~1447211,00.html |publisher=LCFC.co.uk |date=7 November 2008 |access-date=2008-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081110044408/http://www.lcfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/LatestNews/0%2C%2C10274~1447211%2C00.html |archive-date=10 November 2008 }} He made his debut in Leicester's 3–0 FA Cup first round victory over Stevenage Borough, playing the full 90 minutes.{{cite news| title=Leicester V Stevenage| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/7700399.stm| publisher=BBC Sport| date=8 November 2008| access-date=2008-11-08}} On 6 January 2009 Edworthy agreed to stay at Leicester until the end of the 2008–09 season.{{cite news|title=Ed-Worthy |url=http://www.lcfc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10274~1510520,00.html |publisher=LCFC.co.uk |date=6 January 2009 |access-date=2009-01-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716192617/http://www.lcfc.com/page/LatestNews/0%2C%2C10274~1510520%2C00.html |archive-date=16 July 2011 }}
On 29 May, he was released at the end of his contract by Leicester alongside Paul Henderson, Patrick Kisnorbo, Bruno Ngotty and Barry Hayles.{{cite news| title=Leicester release five| url=http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/sport/Patrick-Kisnorbo-released-Leicester-City/article-1033260-detail/article.html| work= ThisIsLeicestershire.co.uk| publisher= The Leicester Mercury| date=29 May 2009}}
=Burton Albion=
Edworthy was signed for Football League new boys Burton Albion on 4 August 2009, on a one-month contract by former Derby teammate Paul Peschisolido. He played in Burton's first ever Football League match at Shrewsbury Town but did not play again and was released after his contract expired.{{cite news| title=Pesch looks to add new faces as Edworthy leaves club| url=http://www.burtonalbionfc.co.uk/ba_newsDt.asp?nUID=639| publisher=Burton Albion F.C.| date=8 September 2009| access-date=2009-09-12}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} In October 2009, Edworthy announced his retirement after playing over 500 senior games in his 18-year career.{{cite news
|title=Marc Edworthy confirms playing retirement
|url=http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/coventry-city-fc/football-rumours-gossip/2009/10/22/marc-edworthy-confirms-playing-retirement-92746-24987255/
|publisher=Coventry Telegraph
|date=22 October 2009
|access-date=2010-08-16
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091107072125/http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/coventry-city-fc/football-rumours-gossip/2009/10/22/marc-edworthy-confirms-playing-retirement-92746-24987255/
|archive-date=7 November 2009
}}
Career statistics
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||||||||||
| rowspan="2"|Season
!rowspan="2"|Club !rowspan="2"|Division !colspan="2"|League !colspan="2"|FA Cup !colspan="2"|League Cup !colspan="2"|Europe !colspan="2"|OtherIncludes other competitive competitions, including the EFL Trophy & the play-offs !colspan="2"|Total | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1991–92
|rowspan="4"|Plymouth Argyle |15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | |
| 1992–93
|rowspan="3"|Second Division |15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 1 | 0 | 20 | 0 | |
| 1993–94
|12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 1 | 0 | 17 | 0 | |
| 1994–95
|27 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 1 | 0 | 34 | 1 | |
| colspan="3"|Plymouth Argyle total
!69 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 86 | 1 |
| 1995–96
|rowspan="4"|Crystal Palace |rowspan="2"|First Division |44 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 3 | 0 | 53 | 0 | |
| 1996–97
|45 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | colspan="2"|— | 3 | 0 | 53 | 1 | |
| 1997–98
|34 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 39 | 0 | ||
| 1998–99
|3 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 6 | 0 | ||
| colspan="3"|Crystal Palace total
!126 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 151 | 1 |
| 1998–99
|rowspan="4"|Coventry City |rowspan="3"|FA Premier League |22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 23 | 0 | |||
| 1999–2000
|10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 12 | 0 | ||
| 2000–01
|24 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 28 | 1 | ||
| 2001–02
|20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 22 | 0 | ||
| colspan="3"|Coventry City total
!76 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 1 |
| 2002–03
|22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | |
| colspan="3"|Wolverhampton Wanderers total
!22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 |
| 2003–04
|rowspan="2"|Norwich City |43 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 45 | 0 | ||
| 2004–05
|28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 30 | 0 | ||
| colspan="3"|Norwich City total
!71 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 0 |
| 2005–06
|rowspan="3"|Derby County |rowspan="2"|Championship |30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 32 | 0 | ||
| 2006–07
|38 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 1 | 0 | 41 | 0 | |
| 2007–08
|9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 11 | 0 | ||
| colspan="3"|Derby County total
!77 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 84 | 0 |
| 2008–09
|5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 8 | 0 | |||
| colspan="3"|Leicester City total
!5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 2009–10
|1 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 0 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| colspan="3"|Burton Albion total
!1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| colspan="3"|Career Total
!447 | 2 | 28 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 514 | 3 |
References
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External links
- {{Soccerbase}}
- [http://www.ex-canaries.co.uk/players/edworthy.htm Career information at ex-canaries.co.uk]
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{{Plymouth Argyle F.C. Player of the Year}}
{{Crystal Palace F.C. Player of the Year}}
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Category:Footballers from Barnstaple
Category:Men's association football fullbacks
Category:English men's footballers
Category:Plymouth Argyle F.C. players
Category:Crystal Palace F.C. players
Category:Coventry City F.C. players
Category:Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
Category:Norwich City F.C. players
Category:Derby County F.C. players
Category:Leicester City F.C. players
Category:Burton Albion F.C. players