Personal information | |||
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Full name | Samuel Joshua Stockley[1] | ||
Date of birth | 5 September 1977 | ||
Place of birth | Tiverton, England | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Right-back | ||
Youth career | |||
1994–1996 | Southampton | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1996–2001 | Barnet | 182 | (2) |
2001–2002 | Oxford United | 41 | (0) |
2002 | → Colchester United (loan) | 10 | (1) |
2002–2006 | Colchester United | 131 | (2) |
2006 | → Blackpool (loan) | 7 | (0) |
2006–2008 | Wycombe Wanderers | 56 | (1) |
2008–2009 | Port Vale | 31 | (0) |
2010–2011 | Ferencvárosi TC | 17 | (0) |
2010–2011 | Ferencvárosi TC II | 1 | (0) |
2011 | Telford United | 0 | (0) |
2011 | Droylsden | 1 | (0) |
2011 | F.C. New York | 17 | (0) |
2012–2013 | Carolina RailHawks | 14 | (0) |
Total | 508 | (6) | |
Managerial career | |||
2022– | Lexington SC | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Samuel Joshua Stockley (born 5 September 1977) is an English football coach and former professional player who is the first-team manager and sporting director at USL League One club Lexington SC.
A youth player at Southampton, he made his name at Barnet in the late 1990s, where he was named as Player of the Year in 2001. A short time at Oxford United was followed with a four-year spell with Colchester United between 2002 and 2006. After helping Colchester to win promotion out of League One in 2005–06, he then spent two seasons with Wycombe Wanderers, before signing with Port Vale in May 2008. He announced his retirement as a professional player in November 2009. However, he returned to the game in 2010 with Hungarian side Ferencvárosi TC, before becoming a non-League player in England with Droylsden via Telford United in 2011. He spent 2011 at American club F.C. New York, before joining Carolina RailHawks a year later. Over the course of his 17-year professional career he made 583 appearances in all competitions, scoring six goals.
Following his retirement he would spend seven years coaching youth players and girls in the United States, returning to the United Kingdom in 2020 to coach at Llandudno before returning to the U.S. in 2021 as Sporting Director for Lexington SC.